Inflatable Love Seat

Step 10 Attach the handles.

First off, now would be a good time to cut out canvas handles. You should need one handle for each piece of tape you just placed on the heart. The canvas handles should be 1 inch by 6 inches.

Once the handles are cut and the tape is well-positioned, remove each piece one by one. As you remove each one, draw a line in pencil where the tape used to be. This is going to be where you will later attach the handle so make sure that all the lines are going in the same direction on both hearts.

Now that you have these lines, the next step would be to paint over them with two coats of liquid latex to make an airtight seal. This is done so that when the handles are sewn on you won't need to worry so much about properly sealing the canvas frame. Don't forget to coat the latex in baby powder when you are done.

With that said, once the latex is dry and coated, the next thing to do would be to lay out the canvas handles one by one over the pencil lines still visible through the latex. Sew the handle to the canvas frame 1" over on each side. Next fold the two loose inches of handle fabric over on themselves and sew something resembling a box with an "X" in it to reinforce the handles (see secondary image).