Custom Interior work..., Upholstery! Options

[blu94gt]

Ok guys I'm looking for some suggestions and such. I've decided that I'm going to further my basic sewing abilities and practice so I can re-upholster my car. I'm thinking I'm going to do a temporary black vynal theme to replace all the upholstery on the seats and in the door-pad things, along with the visors and headliner. This will set me so I can save up for leather when the car becomes a real project.

I do have a few questions though, and if anyone has suggestions please post them, I'm pretty much a noob at this stuff. For the headliner I thought it would be cool to have like fiber-optics in it...like make the black headliner with the ends of the fiber in it to look like stars ya know? Anyone have ideas on how to make it work and look good? I mean i have some ideas but I just don't know if they're feasible.

~Brian

[WannabeGT4]

Ok guys I'm looking for some suggestions and such.  I've decided that I'm going to further my basic sewing abilities and practice so I can re-upholster my car.  I'm thinking I'm going to do a temporary black vynal theme to replace all the upholstery on the seats and in the door-pad things, along with the visors and headliner.  This will set me so I can save up for leather when the car becomes a real project. 

I do have a few questions though, and if anyone has suggestions please post them, I'm pretty much a noob at this stuff.  For the headliner I thought it would be cool to have like fiber-optics in it...like make the black headliner with the ends of the fiber in it to look like stars ya know?  Anyone have ideas on how to make it work and look good?  I mean i have some ideas but I just don't know if they're feasible. 

~Brian
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Brian where do you live so I can come over and slap some sense into you. I've got a 92 cadillac that I'll sell you if you want to pimp your headliner. J/K that's a fairly unique idea. I sorta like it. You can buy fiber optic kits at hobby stores and just start playin with it. It's really easy stuff to work with and is pretty flexible too so it shouldn't be to hard to make work. I'd just start pokin' really small holes in your head liner then stick the fiber optic through and hot glue it on the back side of the head liner. If it doesn't turn out good it's extremely easy to recover a headliner.