Birgit has been busy with the sewing machine, and the saloon now has upholstered cushions.

We were lucky buy a roll of material that was intended to be used as the cloth on car seats. The cutbacks and closures in the local car manufacturing industries provided us a bargain priced roll of material in a nice neutral colour. We first made covers for our dining chairs in the house, and after a year and several washes, they still look like new.

The cushions themselves are from a couple of new foam mattresses. We found some very thin but dense foam mattresses that were marketed as rollup camping mattresses, and these have provided excellent cushions. The foam was carefully sculptured using an electric knife. Corners were carefully bevelled, and trigonometry was again put into action for the covers.

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