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How to Make the Interior of Your Car Look Better by Making a Bench Seat Cover

Posted: Monday, March 18, 2013

By Joseph B Chambers

Bench seat covers are used to protect and to cover the seats of the car. Without this car accessory the seats of your car will get stains and dirt easily hence will make the deterioration process faster. Aside from the protection that it can offer, bench-seat covers are also effective car accessories in enhancing the interior appearance of the car.

Even your car is only a simple one like the model isn't that latest at all, your car can have a flair factor when you acquire or consider making a bench-seat cover.

This is more is more ideal rather purchasing it from an auto accessory shop. The whole process of making a bench seat cover can be done actually in couple of hours when you follow the steps properly. But before that, you need first to acquire the following materials needed in making a bench seat cover.

* Tape measure
* Polyester knit fabric
* Scissors
* Machine Needle Pins
* Elastic Sewing
* Ball pen
* Sheet of Paper
* Fabric marker
* Thread 1/8 inch

Here the steps that you must follow carefully in making a bench seat cover.

1. Measure the bench-seat of your car with the use of a tape measure. Record the measurements that you will take in a paper. You need to measure the length of the seat side to side and from the back going down, across to the bench seat.

2. Provide an additional space or allowance to each measurement that you have taken. This will be needed in order to wrap the cover around the sides and in the back part of the bench.

3. Get the polyester knit and cut it accordingly with the measurements that you have taken. Be sure that the color of the thread that you are going to use is the same as with the color of the knit.

4. Pin the elastic throughout the fabric and then sew the polyester knit in place. After that you can now remove the pins.

5. Drape or wrap the seat cover around the bench-seat fit it properly and mark the exact location of the seat belts using a fabric marker. Right after that, make a slit measuring about three inches where the marks are.

6. Fold the edges of the slits two times and sew it so that it will get fastened. Now you have a new bench seat cover for your car.

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