Ours is the same, a faux leather with it's own thin padding built in. Nice job on yours by the way, looks great.

I find it intersting that we are all matching different parts of the car. I wanted it to match the small black leather "pads" on the door armrest, both in look and feel. In my pics, even though the flash is messing with the colors, you can sort of see in the one pic that the center arm rest and the leather "pad" on the door are very similar.

I'm also wondering if our materials don't vary as to make them easier to mold around the arm rest. The more stretch to the material, the easier it is to work around corners. The thinner the material, the easier it would be.

Again, I might try it again someday. Next time instead of starting on the flat sides and working towards the corners, I am going to start in the corners and work towards the flat sides. I think this might be the little secret.

 

i think the real trick is to start from the middle and work towards outside pulling and stretching. faux leather I have is not thin and my fingers were hurting after i was done. I am glad I had it done because my elbow would hurt resting on bare top like many have complained.