I'm making a sofa cover for a family where lives an elderly and much loved cat who is a furniture destroyer. The husband asked if there was some way of buffering the new cover against dear James. He isn't going to change his ways now.
We thought that a pad made from offcuts of the cover (a sturdy cotton canvas) attached to the corners of the arms might be the answer. I thought from just under the hem of the armcap to nearly the floor, and about four inches each side of the corner. A pad with wadding in it? Then when one side has been destroyed it can be turned over. It would have to be fairly firmly attached, and I can't get past safety pins through what's left of the upholstery. I expect the cover to outlast the cat, so not velcro( which I don't think would be firm enough,anyway).
How thick a pad? Is this going to work? Why do I indulge my customers? Will their next cat also kill sofas?
I know you can get sticky stuff from Lakeland which is supposed to stop them clawing, but I don't think that's an option here.
Any thoughts?
Apart from the woman (me) is an idiot.
We thought that a pad made from offcuts of the cover (a sturdy cotton canvas) attached to the corners of the arms might be the answer. I thought from just under the hem of the armcap to nearly the floor, and about four inches each side of the corner. A pad with wadding in it? Then when one side has been destroyed it can be turned over. It would have to be fairly firmly attached, and I can't get past safety pins through what's left of the upholstery. I expect the cover to outlast the cat, so not velcro( which I don't think would be firm enough,anyway).
How thick a pad? Is this going to work? Why do I indulge my customers? Will their next cat also kill sofas?
I know you can get sticky stuff from Lakeland which is supposed to stop them clawing, but I don't think that's an option here.
Any thoughts?
Apart from the woman (me) is an idiot.
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