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 Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 1:01 am
EASY TO SEW CUSHIONS
Making Simple Cushions Instructions
These are the easiest cushions to make even if you have limited sewing skills.
Simple cushions can be made in all weights of fabric from lightweight cottons to heavyweight velvets.
They can be made to match, contrast or coordinate with your soft furnishings, be left plain or enhanced by adding lace, braid or fringing.
The instructions below are for a simple square cushion which can be used to complement a sofa, add a finishing touch to a chair or enhance the look of a bed.
Requirements:
Square cushion pad in the desired size.
Fabric of your choice.
Braid, lace or fringing, if required, enough for the circumference of the cushion pad.
Matching thread.
Making a Simple Square Cushion:
• Measure the cushion pad, place the tape measure seam to seam and add a seam allowance of 0.5" (12 mm) to all edges.
• Cut out 2 pieces of fabric to the chosen size including the seam allowance.
• Place the 2 pieces of fabric with right sides together. Pin and stitch around the 4 corners and 3 sides, leaving an opening in the centre of the remaining side big enough to insert the cushion pad. Fasten the ends of the threads securely.
• Turn the cover right side out and insert the cushion pad.
• Turn under the raw edges of the opening in line with the remainder of the seam and slipstitch.
• If required, stitch braid, lace or fringing to the right side using a small backstitch.
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Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 1:04 am
NO SEW CUSHIONS
Want an easy way to recover cushions, with little or no sewing and no zips? Then read on.
This technique works just as well with sofa seat cushions as with smaller regular cushions.
First obtain some fabric. It should be two-and-a-half times as long as one side of your cushion and at least a little bit wider (if you are covering deep sofa cushions allow a bit more all round). It is also a good idea to use fabric that you can clean in the washing machine.
Then lay your fabric on the floor with the right side facing up. Place your cushion on top in the centre of the fabric. Make sure there is enough fabric on two opposite sides of the cushion to cover its sides, and trim any excess. You will now be left with a long strip of fabric with a cushion in the middle.
Next, remove the cushion. Hem the two shortest sides of fabric, placing the wrong sides of the fabric together. Don't panic if you can't sew, use iron-on hemming web tape instead. You can buy it from supermarkets as well as in fabric shops.
Then, laying your fabric on the floor again still right side up, place your cushion beside the fabric in the middle of its length.
Now for the good part. Fold over the two protruding lengths of fabric so they overlap in the middle, make sure the right side of the fabric is now on the inside of the cushion cover to be. The squareish shape you are left with should be just a bit longer than your cushion (if you are making covers for your sofa seat cushions, the deeper the cushion the longer the squarish shape should be).
When you have that right, sew along the two open edges, again don't panic if you can't sew. Just use iron on sticky webbing tape again. When using webbing tape, where the two lengths of fabric meet you will have to hem twice to get webbing on both sides of the little piece of fabric in the middle. Turn the cover the right side out and place your cushion inside.
When recovering sofa seat cushions, you may have a little triangle of material at each corner left sticking out. If so, just turn the cover inside out and sew across the corners then cut away the little piece of fabric left over. That should solve the problem.
There you have a little or no sewing way to recover a tired looking cushion and with the addition of a throw an inexpensive way to revamp an old sofa.
Happy sewing.
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