This cushion cover has a simple envelope-style back with no zip! Just overlap the back panels and slide in your cushion! You can also add ruffles for a playful touch or personalise it with a word or name using appliqué letters.
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Materials Needed:
- Fabric (amount depends on cushion size)
- Cushion insert (any size)
- Matching thread
- Scissors or rotary cutter
- Clips or pins
- Point turner
- Iron
- Sewing machine (or needle if hand sewing)
- Optional: Bondaweb (or similar fusible web), fabric scraps for letters, paper & pencil for templates
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Let’s get making!!
1. Measure Your Cushion Insert
- W = width of the cushion
- H = height of the cushion
- Once you have those measurements, add 1” to each.
Example: My cushion measurements were: W = 18” H = 18” + 1” to both W and H gives us a final measurement of W = 19” H = 19”
2. Cut The Fabric
- Front Panel - Cut one piece W and H the measurement you just worked out.
Example: Mine is W=19” H=19”
- Back Panels - Cut two pieces W x (H ÷ 2 + 5”) This adds overlap and seam allowance.
Example: Mine is W 19” x (H 19” ÷ 2 = 9.5” + 5” = 14.5”) So my two back panels measured W 19” x H 14.5”
3. Creating The Ruffles (optional)
- To work out the length of your ruffled strip: (W + W + H + H) x 1.5
Example: Mine is (19”+19”+19”+19”=76”) x 1.5 = 114”
Tip: If you don’t have a piece of fabric long enough, you can sew multiple pieces of fabric together to create one long strip.
- Width approx 6” (you can adjust based on how full you want the ruffle)
- Fold the fabric in half lengthwise, right sides together.
- With a 1/4” seam allowance, sew down the short edge of each side.
- Trim the seam allowance and turn the fabric right side out.
- Give the whole strip of fabric a really good iron.
- Set your sewing machine to the longest stitch length and the highest tension setting. Using these settings will cause the fabric to gather (which is exactly what we want!)
- Sew a straight line from one end to the other 1/8” from the raw edge. Do NOT backstitch.
4. Attaching The Ruffles
- You can gently pull on the bobbin thread to gather the fabric more if needed until the length of the ruffles match the width of the of the front panel.
- Clip or pin the ruffled strip around all edges of the front panel.
- Use a baste stitch to hold the ruffles in place.
- Overlock or use a zig zag stitch to finish the edges.
5. Add Appliqué Letters (optional)
- Draw or print the word you want to use (mirror it if needed).
- Trace the letters onto the paper side of the Bondaweb.
- Iron the Bondaweb onto the wrong side of your fabric scraps.
- Cut out the letters.
- Peel off the paper backing and place them on the front panel where you’d like them.
- Iron in place to fuse.
- Sew around each letter using a straight stitch or zigzag.
6. Hem the Back Panels
On one long edge of each back panel:
- Fold the edge in by 1/2”, then again by 1/2” to enclose the raw edge.
- Press and sew to hem.
- Overlock or use a zig zag stitch to finish the other three edges.
7. Assemble the Cushion Cover
- Lay the front panel right side up.
- Place one back panel right side down on top, lining up the raw edge with one side.
- Place the second back panel right side down, overlapping the first panel.
- Pin or clip all around the edges.
- Sew around all four sides with a 1/2” seam allowance.
- If you added a ruffle, use your ruffle basting as a guide.
- Reinforce the opening by backstitching a couple of times.
8. Turn and Finish
- Turn the cushion cover right side out through the envelope opening.
- Use a point turner or something with a pointy end to push out the corners.
- Give it a good iron.
- Insert your cushion and you’re done!
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All Groovy Ooze Sewing Patterns
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