Wednesday, May 28, 2008

My beef with the ham.



I recently made seats for some round chairs and was reminded how hard it is to press slipcovers at times. I have a pressing ham
that works sometimes, but not that often. (Not to be confused with a ham press ). For a while I have been wanting to make one myself.


I decided that I need something shaped more like a roast. I cut two layers of wool for the top and two for the bottom and two strips for the "boxing". Since the pressing roast needs to be extra firm and I didn't want to go out looking for sawdust, I used cut up wool scraps.





I was having a hard time getting it firm enough, so I added a core of rolled up wool.



The finished product looks more like a giant pork chop, but will work nicely for those hard to press slipcover arm-fronts. For the round cushions I actually need a big pie slice. Maybe I will tackle that next.

2 comments:

Julie said...

I never knew there were pressing hams or ham presses. Learn something new everyday, lol.

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Sarah said...

Love the ham bone and so will the puppy dog your making it for! The slipcover for your chair turned out great!
Sarah
Vintage Lily