I’ve done this before, but for some reason this I’m getting into my own head on this and giving me anxiety lol. Maybe not that bad but it’s stopping me from moving forward. What I have is a stock Harley seat. It’s a larger one piece off of a bagger. For the main seat area of the driver, they want orange flames sewn into the seat and the rest black. I’ve thought of a few ways to do this, but would like to hear what others have done.

First option. Cut the orange material out to the seat pattern size and also the black out to seat pattern size. Lay the black over the top of the orange. Sketching out my flames on the black. Now sew the black and orange together around the flame design. Once that is sewn. Come back with scissors or razor blade and carefull cut out the black inside the flame design revealing the orange under neath. Sew the seat together with the black top and orange underneath the same size.

Option 2. Draw my flames on the black and cut out. Place this over the orange and sew around the flames making them one piece. (Afraid the flames will distort here and could cause issues.) sew seat together like in option 1

Option 3. It’s pretty much the top 2 options repeated but instead of leaving the orange to full pattern size. In each options I would trim the orange just past the stitching so only the black is the seat, not 2 layers of black and orange underneath.

I’m thinking option 1 will have the best outcome. But worried I’d sew it and the. Cutting out the black id cut the orange too.

I’m using marine vinyl with serafil size 270 for any top stitching around the flames.