{"id":28210,"date":"2012-10-12T14:25:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T12:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/?p=28210"},"modified":"2026-09-11T14:31:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T12:31:04","slug":"handcrafted-sofas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/en\/handcrafted-sofas\/","title":{"rendered":"Handcrafted sofas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let me give you some background: in 1996, my beloved Aunt Ma gave me my sewing machine as a wedding present; she also gave me a sewing kit which she\u2019d filled herself with everything I might need for sewing.<\/p>\n

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In 2012, when I returned from London to Spain (specifically, I moved internationally from London \u2013 population ten million \u2013 to Cueva del Hierro \u2013 population 26), I made an early repayment of the entire outstanding balance on the mortgage for my flat in Madrid and was left with no savings at all\u2026<\/p>\n

So I had to make my first sofa for the living room in Madrid myself using some foam mats, some fabric and some zips that I\u2019d bought. Obviously, it wasn\u2019t the first time I\u2019d used my sewing machine \u2013 I\u2019d sewn a lot before (mostly mending my own clothes and my daughter\u2019s), but this was the first time I\u2019d really got down to work<\/em> making things from scratch. This was the result:<\/p>\n

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I also sewed some fitted sheets (like a mattress protector) and some bed sheets for when I turned that sofa into a bed:<\/p>\n

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When I could finally afford to buy a proper sofa, the one I\u2019d made came with me to our house in the village, in Cueva del Hierro\u2026 and it\u2019s still there:<\/p>\n

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I also took the opportunity to sew a set for a small 90 cm mattress that I turned into a sofa when it wasn\u2019t being used as a bed. I first had it in the guest room in Madrid and when I could finally afford to buy furniture, I brought it to the village:<\/p>\n

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Here I\u2019ll explain how I made the sofas for my home in 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,196],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-moncrafts","category-moncreativity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28211,"href":"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28210\/revisions\/28211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}