A "Matt Haly" Original Ottoman: Upholstery class 3 of 4

I think my left arm shoulder muscle is going to be more developed than the right from working on this ottoman. My right hand staples while my left arm pulls, stretches and creates tension in all the fabric and supporting fabric. Like I said in an earlier post...Upholstery is hard work!

After completing the burlap corners, we sprayed down the edge roll with the 3M foam fast spray (we used 313 to spray down the cotton batting). see above photo. The photo below illustrates where to spray the 3M foam fast spray. When pushing blue foam onto the glue area (the black line on the wood frame) be sure to push down tightly so that no part of the black line is exposed.

Like most steps in this process, do front, then back, then sides.

Glue is messy! Wash the glue off your hands!

Dacron is the white foam that goes on top of the blue foam that goes on top of the cotton batting. That's a lot of cushion. I mean, we need to be comfortable when sitting on this Ottoman. I think, at this time during class, is about the time that Matt Haly accused me of doing this step wrong and therefore I would end up with a Martha Stewart Ottoman! Some people like Martha's ottomans just fine.

The Dacron needs to be stapled tightly to all four sides just below the black line (that is now concealed by the blue foam). So magically staple your dacron on!

You should end up with little Miss Muffet's tuffet.

Fold corners over into a nice and neat tight edge. 

Next is the fabric layer. Yes we finally made it to the fabric. Staple the fabric using the same steps applied to the dacron layer.  Fold corners neatly cutting access fabric out before crossing one side to the other. Create a line that in directly above edge and where corner is below the actually corner of the ottoman. I think this when I told Matt, our teacher, that I was going to sell my crappy ottoman on Etsy as a "Matt Haly" Original. 

Before piping steps, cut access fabric off. We started with a 24" x24" square.

Piping is fun! Start in the middle of the length of piping & in the front of you ottoman. If you can tell what the front is anymore. Wrap around evenly. You should end up with an even amount on each side. Using a ruler, measure 11-1/2 inches from the base. Thats where the top of your piping should lay. Staple on a diagonal all the way around using longer staples. The ends of the piping are tricky. You must cut the left side of piping on an acute angle, then with the right side of piping, cut access about an inch overlapping the left side. Rip stitching of right side out, and cut right rope on an opposing acute angle so that they marry each other, then fold access fabric over, wrap left side and staple done. Easier said than done, for sure.

to be continued....