Patent ID: 8721821

Claim:
A method of making a vehicle interior component having decorative stitching, comprising the steps of: (a) providing a decorative covering and a vehicle interior component substrate; (b) sewing a line of decorative stitching through the decorative covering along a stitch path such that the line of decorative stitching compresses the decorative covering to form a reduced thickness portion along the stitch path defined by a depression along an inner surface of the decorative covering; (c) depositing a bead of curable filler material in a viscous liquid phase along the covering stitch path or along a corresponding substrate location or along both, and curing the filler material, wherein the cured filler material is more compressible than the substrate and less compressible than the decorative covering; and (d) disposing the decorative covering over the component substrate so that the covering stitch path is aligned over the corresponding substrate location and the filler material supports the decorative covering beneath the depression to help prevent a visible sunken area along the stitch path.