{"id":357,"date":"2016-10-03T17:02:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T21:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funonholiday.com\/?p=357"},"modified":"2016-10-03T17:22:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T21:22:39","slug":"recovering-the-v-berth-cusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funonholiday.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/03\/recovering-the-v-berth-cusions\/","title":{"rendered":"Recovering the V-Berth cusions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to recover our V-berth cushions. This is where Zach and I will sleep, and the old cushion covers were starting to fall apart. I watched a YouTube video with very detailed, step-by-step instructions and followed them exactly.\u00a0I bought upholstery fabric from a local marine surplus store for a great deal. This made me feel a little bit better, knowing if I ruined all the fabric, we weren&#8217;t out too much money. Here is a picture of the old covers&#8230;circa 1980.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-358\" src=\"http:\/\/funonholiday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/v-berth-old-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"v-berth-old\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/funonholiday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/v-berth-old-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/funonholiday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/v-berth-old.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I took the old covers off and used the cushions to make a pattern for the top<\/p>\n<p>. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-360\" src=\"http:\/\/funonholiday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/step-two-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"step-two\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/funonholiday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/step-two-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/funonholiday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/step-two.jpg 485w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I measured all the sides, making sure to allow for the angle where the cushion is against the wall of the boat and cut out the fabric.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-359\" src=\"http:\/\/funonholiday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/stepone-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"stepone\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/funonholiday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/stepone-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/funonholiday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/stepone.jpg 485w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-361\" src=\"http:\/\/funonholiday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/step-three-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"step-three\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/funonholiday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/step-three-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/funonholiday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/step-three.jpg 485w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After all the pieces had been cut, I laid them out to make sure everything lined up correctly before I started the actual sewing. I decided to start with the smallest cushion, just in case it didn&#8217;t go well.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-363\" src=\"http:\/\/funonholiday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/step-5-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"step-5\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/funonholiday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/step-5-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/funonholiday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/step-5.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-364\" src=\"http:\/\/funonholiday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/step-6-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"step-6\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/funonholiday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/step-6-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/funonholiday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/step-6.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The first cushion went together pretty well. I only had to rip out a few seams through the whole project, so I consider that a win! And I can&#8217;t believe what a difference the change makes in the overall look of the area<\/p>\n<p>.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-367\" src=\"http:\/\/funonholiday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/10447412_10203518218291645_8363202208528304435_n-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"10447412_10203518218291645_8363202208528304435_n\" width=\"368\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/funonholiday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/10447412_10203518218291645_8363202208528304435_n-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/funonholiday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/10447412_10203518218291645_8363202208528304435_n-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/funonholiday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/10447412_10203518218291645_8363202208528304435_n-1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-365\" src=\"http:\/\/funonholiday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Done-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"done\" width=\"284\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/funonholiday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Done-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/funonholiday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Done.jpg 485w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One more task complete and checked off the to-do list!!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-371\" src=\"http:\/\/funonholiday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/final-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"final\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/funonholiday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/final-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/funonholiday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/final.jpg 646w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to recover our V-berth cushions. This is where Zach and I will sleep, and the old cushion covers were starting to fall apart. I watched a YouTube video with very detailed, step-by-step instructions and followed them exactly.\u00a0I bought upholstery fabric from a local marine surplus store for a great deal. This made me feel a little bit better, knowing if I ruined all the fabric, we weren&#8217;t out too much money. Here is a picture of the old covers&#8230;circa 1980. I took the old covers off and used the cushions to make a pattern for the top . &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stuffwefix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funonholiday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funonholiday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funonholiday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funonholiday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funonholiday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/funonholiday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373,"href":"https:\/\/funonholiday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funonholiday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funonholiday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funonholiday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funonholiday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}