Like most car collectors I have a cover for the car. Even in a garage dust collects on cars, so you throw a car cover over them for protection. The cover I’m using for the Imperial was originally for a full size extended cab pickup. Meaning bulky and heavy. And difficult to store when it isn’t on the car.
I usually just throw it in the trunk. Where it looks bad.
As I was standing behind the Imperial admiring the finished trunk and nodding in satisfaction I noticed the rolled up car cover. Right next to the remnants of carpet from the trunk.
Whoa – what happens if I make a bag out of trunk carpet, stuff the car cover in it, and then shove the bag onto the trunk ledge behind the back seat? This would look fine and would conceal all of the unfinished areas around the back seat that were bothering me.
Since it is the same carpet as the floor of the trunk, it would look like a finished continuation of the trunk floor.
Right! Grab the one remaining large piece of carpet and measure it. It was long enough to hold the cover and fill the gap in the trunk. But it wasn’t wide enough to wrap around the rolled up car cover. Krud! So close, so close…
Just a minute – there are still some smaller carpet scraps… Start laying pieces of carpet on the work table. Just enough to get to the needed size. Well, if I’m willing to sew smaller pieces together I can make this work!
So I started sewing smaller pieces. And it worked! The car cover fits inside, it fits in the trunk, and it nicely finishes the trunk.
And there was much rejoicing!
I remain very happy with the Juki sewing machine – it takes whatever thick material I’m trying to stick together and just calmly munches through it with even stitches and no sign of strain. In this case I was sewing up to four layers of carpet together – the Juki just said “whatever” and took it in stride.