Thinking the wheel of a car leather

There are different ways to create a lot of tips on this. One of them is to break up the old trim. It is possible that some car services are used in this way. But it is good only if the steering wheel was pretty skin or other material. In other sources, it is offered to cut rectangles from the skin, attach to the steering wheel and then make the necessary notches. We will use another method.

Not faster, but more accurate.

We need:

• food film;
• malyary Scotch;
• stationery knife;
• fountain pen or marker;
• cardboard.

To begin with, we turn the steering wheel tightly with a food film. This moment should not cause difficulties, since the film is elastic and will feel great to our steering wheel. After that, we take adhesion and begin neatly, but accurately and densitive to get it on the film. Lights do not leave. Now we need to place the boundaries of future skin pieces and the place of the inner seam. It is better to use the marker for this. The number of pieces depends on the designer of the steering wheel. Some love to combine the skin of different colors or textures, but on average 3-4 pieces are always obtained.

After applying markup, we need to cut tape on the borders of this very markup using the stationery knife. Now all parts gently straighten and put on any press about a day. Marko ready. It's time to move towards the pattern.

Cut and sew the blanks

The pattern is a simple occupation, because we already have ready-made milets. It is best to transfer the part to the cardboard first, so it's easier for us to make the pattern on the skin itself. When transferring to the cardboard, it is necessary to add 2-3 mm on the seams. Now the simplest thing is to draw the details of our billets on the skin. To do this, the ballpoint pen or marker is suitable.

Our pattern is ready. Now you need to sew parts each other, we leave free only internal steering wheels. Sew is better using a sewing machine, it turns out as fast. And do not forget about the thread, it must be kapron and not too thin.

The next step is to fit. Apply the workpiece to the steering wheel and everything carefully check. Watch that the tailored leather braid flies to the steering wheel as close as possible. This will help avoid twisting the trim in the future. If everything suits you, go to the next stage.

Tight steering

Before starting the steering steering, you need to decide what kind of seam we will use. There are many more them, but three: three are very popular among motorists.

• pigtail;
• sports;
• macrame.

If you attracted the last two, then before starting work on the tightness, you need to make a stitch on the sewing machine throughout the circumference with both edges. These seams will then be useful to pull the edges of the pattern. For "pigtails", such a shooting is not needed.

Seam "Kosher". For it, we make uniform marking for future punctures on the one hand over the entire perimeter of the inner seam. On the other hand, we make the same tags, but they should be placed nonconnect the labels of the parallel side, but even in the middle. Now we apply the workpiece to the steering wheel and begin to push the edge of the pattern by the intended points of punctures. We use all the same categorous thread for this.

Seams "Sports" and "Macrame" are very similar on the technique of execution. For tightening, with the help of these seams, the shot is used previously. By tagging the sides of the pattern, we carry out by capturing the sections of the seat alternately from the same side. The difference is one thing - for a sports seam, we grab each loop of the seat, for Macrame - through one.

Final moments

It is worth noting that the braid in the future can start scrolling. To avoid this, many advise the use of glue or resin. They are applied under the skin on the shell of the steering wheel. Use this advice or not - the case of everyone. But this method is not useful to you, if the pattern is made close and fits well "Baranka".

You just made a leather handlebar with your own hands. Not difficult, right? Hauling the helm of the skin did not take much time, also saved at the cost of services of the car service.