Easy RV Camper Cushion Covers 

This woman is amazing. Just called the upholstery shop, they wanted $800.00 for 4 - 40" rv cushions. I didn't even want cording on the edges. I respect the trade but, absolutely not. I can sew a bit so this was perfect. Thank you Stephanie. I appreciate the teachers of the world and people like you willing to take the time to do this.

Thank you for this video. I’m an old Carpenter /house rehab guy working on restoring a vintage iron furniture set and,believe it or not, It is impossible to find someone to make a slipcover other than very expensive upholstery shop. So, I decided to do it myself and your video was exactly what I needed. You have a great sense of working in three dimensional space (like a carpenter or architect) And made the whole process perfectly clear. It is kinda amusing how similar upholstery is to finish carpentry in many ways. I may take up sewing as a hobby in bad weather.

Thanks Steph… you gave me the confidence to have a go and I’ve just finished my test cover in some old fabric and ordered 10 metres of new fabric to cover the foam cushions in my camper van… followed all your steps. Lovely clear explanation. Regards Glenn

Perfect!!! I am SO happy to have found this tutorial. I am a mediocre seemstress and have not sewn in many years. I searched so many videos before deciding to follow this technique. Very simple and they look great! I did choose to put a Velcro closure on the bottom so they can be removed and washed. Thank you so much!!!

Great video THANK YOU! I get on you tube to learn to do SO many things! Your a very good teacher! Negative Nancy’s take a hike! If you can’t say something nice don’t say it at all! Thanks for the quick and easy ! Just the way I like to do things like this!

I know this was done several years ago, but it was SO HELPFUL to me! I haven't sewn in at least a decade but want to cover our new (to us) camper cushions without using a board and staples. This felt very doable! Thank you for explaining everything so well. Can't wait to check out what your camper remodel looks like overall!

I just did this! First time sewing in 30 years and it turned out great! We bought a vintage camper, too!! And people need to get over the music!

I just want to say thank you, thank you, thank you for an awesome tutorial! I followed it for the dinette cushions in my popup and they turned out perfectly. They are literally my most proud moment of my whole remodel lol. I closed the bottoms with velcro.

Thank you so much for this video!! It gave me the boost of confidence I needed to finish my box cushions in my pop-up camper. I have been really struggling with the wood in my cushions and was trying to velcro the bottom of my back (table) cushions. I am now going to handsew the bottoms as you did.

We got a 1976 Bonair Pop up last fall and started restoring it. My winter project was to redo the seat cushions but I got nervous as I haven't sew in over 15 years and it was mostly clothes. But after watching this video I feel confident I can get this project done.

Very good video. I learned a lot from you. Thank you! Please don’t delete this video because of the music and comments about it. I do wish all video makers would just omit music altogether. It isn’t necessary at all. Period. Thank you again for a very helpful video. Someone on one of the RV forums I am a member of just redid her cushions by following your video. So, your video is helping people get the courage to take on the job. :-)

Great job! Lovely fabric!

Great job! I recovered mine and made curtains for my camper.

I'm all for easy and simple. Really great instruction video. I like the assurance and confidence building. Ready to give it a shot!

Thank you for this easy tutorial! I recovered the dinette cushions in our RV and love them. My first time recovering and I have very little sewing experience, but thanks to your tutorial they look better than I imagined they could ever look.

Thank you for this easy to follow tutorial! I'm in the process of recovering my camper dinette cushions and followed your instructions step-by-step. Two down two to go and they're turning out AWESOME! I don't enjoy sewing but you make it tolerable with great results. Keep up the good work!

Love your work Stephanie. Don’t worry about the comments, we all here to learn. Many thanks from down under! Abel

Thank you thank you. I've been stressing about how to tender my RV cushions. That is so simple and looks beautiful.

Thanks for the clear and simple to follow video. I jave just re covered 4 caravan cushions based on this video as we refurbish an old van (new to us!). Great results! Thanx

Thanks for the video Stephanie! Let me share what has worked very well for me for FREE!, much of which I've learned from my brother who is a professional upholster, with making a new bench or van bench seat or boosting old car seat foam: For car seats that need boosting, most often they just need more foam added to be like new again, I find used carpet pad foam often in a neighbor's trash or dumpster behind a carpet store. Remove the car seat fabric clips and carefully peel the front and sides of the fabric to gain access under the seat foam core, which often requires the seat be unbolted from the floor. Place a sheet of it or two under the seat foam core, right on top of the spring wire deck(carpet pad foam is tougher than the core so this also stops the spring wire deck from cutting into the seat foam core bottom). Your second sheet can be cut smaller just covering the area the butt sits on. Also inspect the top of the foam core and add carpet pad foam or regular foam where might be needed like by the door, worn from getting in and out over the years. Spray adhesive can be used to bond the foam to the foam but is not necessary except for any top foam added. Your seats will be firm and new like for many years now, it's like free magic! The seat back usually doesn't need a any foam because it's the seat that gets the body weight on it from gravity. If you seat back should need a boost, you can add polyfill batting on top of the foam for free-see below. These methods can also be used on sofa seat cushions. I'll share below where to find FREE used good foam below! To make a bench- where to get free foam: there is so much FREE foam and FREE polyfill - in many soft pillow backs and polyfill batting often wrapped around foam cushions for the taken in people's discarded sofa's and chairs found outside dumpsters at apartment complexes and the back of thrift stores. Even though it's used, it has been well protected covered inside the upholstery. Of course in the event it's a cat lady's furniture and the cats happened to piss all over it, you'll smell it and know to move on lol Most apartments don't allow pets or make it expensive to have a pet so a lot of furniture is pet free. Use a box cutter to open the old furniture to get at the free foam or poly as you need or use the zipper you'll find on some pieces. Some foam in old sofas contain like a 1" thick panel of foam on top of other foam that is perfect thickness to add to your sofa foam to give it the new boost again. Foam can be cut to size using a hack saw loose blade only in your hand holding the end making a sawing motion. New foam looses some of it's firmness over a break in period, say after 5 years depending on how much it's sat on. But then the broken in foam lasts a very very long time at that softer level firmness before it really starts to break down. You might be able to buy complete new expensive foam cushion cores but they will sag after the break in period as well. This is why so often we love a new firm piece of furniture but then it gets soft and saggy on us. Now the sofa companies could to put super firm more expensive foam in their sofa's when new that might be a perfect firmness for us when broken after the 5 years break in period, but then we wouldn't buy the sofa if it's not nice to sit on from the beginning in the show room, so there's the dilemma when you fabric is still in great shape after 5 years but the foam is now sagging. The free fix: So just add more foam if you can firms it up to make it like new again, unzip and compress the foam as you slowly peel off your fabric from the cushion core. Then either add more foam to the top or bottom or hack blade saw through the center horizontal line of the foam core all the way from the back to almost through the front but not through, so you leave a good hinge of foam in the front. Then place about a 1" thick of used foam in the sandwich and holding it closed peel the fabric back over the foam cushion. You can also add more polyfill pad to the cushion core on it's outside to add more softness and support but adding more foam is the big boost. Spray adhesive is optional to bond the foam to the foam. People often think that when the seat sags that the springs under the cushions, have weakened but no, it's the foam, the springs are metal and strong, the foam is just foam. Discarded trash at a dumpster is free for the taking and your reducing what goes to our planet's landfill. This is win win, real free hard core recycling, helping to save our environment as well! Take care!

THANK YOU!! I never thought I'd be able to make cushion covers and now thanks to you I just finished them. Your video and ideas are so appreciated. You made it seem so simple and it actually was 😀 I can't wait to use the pop up trailer this weekend with new curtains and new patterns and colors on the cushions. I wished you had a video of how you made the valances. Thank you....thank you....thank you

This was an RV dinette cushion makeover tutorial...not a music volume tutorial. I very much appreciated your light hearted approach to this project as these projects can be a bit undaunting (evidently not a word, but using it anyway). Looking forward to #2! Thank you!

FINALLY A TUTORIAL I CAN FOLLOW! Love it! Will definitely be using this method to redo my couch! Keep up the great work!

I love how you did this. In the process of remodeling a camper we are just getting.

This is perfect and exactly what I was looking for!! I do know how to sew, but I don't want to waste a lot of time. I don't have the board in my camper cushions and they are in good shape with vinyl bottoms so I would like to just wash and keep the original covers on and just make a slip like cover that I can remove and wash. If I leave 3/4 to an inch jut out on that side seam then I can just sew in some velcro there and they will easily be removable to wash! Thank you so much for this excellent easy breezy idea!! 😍🙌

Thank you Stephanie for your tutorial. I watched some of the other professional videos and I was so confused. I just wanted something easy and fast and I'm so glad I came across yours. I'm working on it now and it looks great. I am a sewer so closing it up won't be a problem. Thank you again. Bette Cudeck

This is the second time I’m commenting-only 5 years later! I had forgotten that your tutorial was the very one that taught me the simplicity of making a box cushion. I did exactly what you did, except in the corners, I did something different. Now here I am, getting a used pop up this time, just reviewing your forgotten video! Pop ups come with many cushions and I wanted to do vinyl on the bottom (because of two dogs) and a colorful fabric on top. Thanks for the great and realistic review! I’ll subscribe this time! 😉

I just found you and I realize this is an older video but I'm about to start working on our travel trailer. I need all the help and ideas I can get. I'm happy you filmed this.

I love the way you covered those cushions! Brilliant! I just finished a similar project and it was extremely difficult. If I had seen your video first, I would have saved a lot of time! Thanks so much for sharing!

Wow, this project went from intimidating to completely do-able. Thanks for making it easy!

We just bought a popup camper and I'm redoing the inside as well!! Watching this cushion cover tutorial just made my life so much easier! I can't thank you enough! It looks so simple!

Wow not bad at all.❤❤❤

I watched 10 different videos about covering camper cushions and yours is by far the best! Thank you for the easy to follow instructions and well made video. I am going to get started on mine right now!

Thanks Stephanie. Your enthusiasm is so infectious & your tips and instruction is fabulously helpful.

"When in doubt, make a bigger knot." LOVE IT !

My dad just got a trailer and I am having trouble with it and I am designing it so I have to do this this is so help full thanks.

Thank you for the video. My popup has fabric that I want to change and you are the catalyst that will get me do to it. Well done!

Well done for your first video, very informative. Thank you. 👍😉🇮🇪🍀

Thank you so much! I’m ready to go now! Great description and video.

We just bought a pop up. You have inspired me to bust out my sewing machine I haven’t used in 15 years and try to do this. 😊

Finally I found just what I was looking for, tailored and easy. Thank you.

Hey! I would put a Velcro strip along the bottom of the cushion for easy removal for laundering! Just a suggestion 😃👍🏻

This is perfect! Thank you!!

Thank you, Stephanie! I cannot wait to update our cushions in our Pop Up Camper. I enjoyed your video, loud music and all! :)

I 💟 this video! we are helping my son redo his pop up camper, I found you through The Pop Up Princess site! I bought a sewing machine (never have sewn or never took home-ec)! Your video is perfect for us newbies! I can't wait to see your other videos!

Thank you for the tutorial! I am struggling with my first caravan to get the seats recovered and this method looks like something I can attempt.

Thank you so much for the video. I want to make new covers for my camper and now I know how! Very informative. Hard to believe this was your first sewing video.

OMG you’re awesome! Thank you so much for this video, your method is perfect for a DIY application on an RV. Onward, I got this! 💪

i love it, exactly the option I was looking for, thanks for posting!

And I was about to purchase new rv seat cushions..lol time to dust off the singer😅👍🏿 nice video.

Oh, wow! Thank you so much for sharing this. I wish I had seen it before I did all my bottom seat cushions following the advice of an employee at the fabric store. I have been too intimidated after those to tackle the back cushions. Now I can finish this project my husband keeps bugging me about. Thanks for making an intimidating project much simpler!

thank you for such a great video - straightforward and easy! I have watched at least a dozen others and was just overwhelmed. Then I watched yours and thought 'I can do that!' Thank you!!!!! :) from South Australia xxx

Can I just say how amazing you are! You explained yourself with such definition and without overdoing it and you were straight to the point and back again. I appreciate you. I am hitting subscribe now

I just did my first one thank you all the help!

We just purchased our first pop up camper and I was so excited to find your channel!! I'll have 4 cushions in the dinette to recover and 6 in the U shaped sofa. I can't wait to get started and I'll be doing videos as I remodel too. Great job on the cushions!!

Lovely best one yet might give it a try

Great video thank for a well explained process

Thank u. I am restoring a camper and i was feeling overwhelmed after watching your video i think i will be able to do it😊💕

Brilliant, thanks a lot for the two videos! I think that's one of the best and easiest solution to create a cover case which I've seen so far. However I will put a velcro in to make it easy removable. Again thanks and greetings from Switzerland 😊

thank you, I am attempting to re-do our cushions and I hope they come out as good as yours, thanks again your tutorial is very helpful

Nice job! I used basically the same method for recovering the cushions in 2 RVs now. I left my opening in the back though, and did not have a board in any of the cushions I did, so was able to make the opening smaller.. I added velcro to the openings so I could remove the covers to wash if needed. We travel with 2 dogs and 2 cats who love to be on the furniture. Off to watch your other videos! Thanks!

Thanks Stephanie, followed your videos in reupholstering our motorhome The Lovely RITA. Very good easy to follow instructions and demonstration.😀

I just finished my "new" cushions. Thank you for the easy to follow video!

I just made mine following this tutorial. Thank you for sharing!

Great video. I am recovering my cushions tomorrow. This is just what I was looking for. Thank you!!

Goodness how many more people going to tell you about the music! Great video very helpful.

Great Teacher!! Love this video. I was afraid to redo RV cushions..but I am ready to do it now!!!

I love your tutorial - you really help show how to fold those corners nicely. Just an idea for the bottom - instead of needle and thread, you can sew a long strip of velcro - it would make it a bit easier than by hand, plus no messing with a zipper.

Wow. You rock. And you are so cute as you were going through explaining it all. Thank you.

Such a useful video. We have just finished making our first cover and are really pleased with the results. Thank you, Stephanie.

Thank you So much! I just did mine tonight after watching this, you saved me so much time!

You are TOO CUTE! Great video. Found you by way of random search since we just purchased our first pup camper yesterday and are starting a much needed make over. Thank you for the help!

Thank YOU so much! I did 4 cushions I cant wait to show my daughter her new cushions for the camper, thanks again! Wish I could should you how great they turned out!

Stephanie, THANK YOU SO MUCH for sharing this video! Saved me so much headache 😉🤗

Your selection of fabric is really pretty.

Thank you! Needing to make cushion covers for our new-to-us Casita and this is PERFECT. Love your assurance that it’s easy (it is!) and all the details. :)

Love the simple approach to the corners.If you are concerned the tread tail will pull through there is a easy fix.double knot the tail then stitch inside of right panel then into the outside of left panel. Send the needle then between the two threads above the tail knot.Draw it tight then from inside of left to outside of right for all fallowing stitches.Thread tail knot can never pull through.

😊 thank you, I will give it a try.

Fantastic! Love it.

You are a genius lady. Thanks so much for this!

Your 1st sewing video; I was totally absorbed and I don't sew but I have a pop up with cushions. So you must be very good.

Thank you for the tutorial! We are redoing an old caravan in the Netherlands. This is very helpful.

Easy instructions...you’re awesome! Thank you so much. This has been a saving grace for me!😊🌺👍🏻

What a great video. I made my son cushions for his gazebo and they took so long because I boxed the cushions added zippers...... I think I was a little mad! . I wish I had seen your video first. I have been asked to make my friend cushions for her indoor table, this time I’m making them using your method. Thank you it’s really is very easy to follow and hopefully ‘do’.

Thank you - I found this really helpful.

Thank you!! Just what I needed!

Thank you for this video! We just snatched up a new ( to us) pop-up and I bought fabric to recover all the cushions. I love how personal you are in this video : D

Thx so much for taking the time to put this video out...I have a trailer that's off grid and I want to redo the cushens same as yours and I don that've power...I'm just going to do the job by hand...would of never thought of it had I not seen your video!

I Love Your Vibe And Energy! Great Video!

nice video but I wear glasses also, you could show a closeup of the first inch of hand sewing , thanks again for this video , I have a lot of cushions to do

Great video, i always over think these things so this is nice and simple. Don’t know if anyone else suggested this, but putting your thread through beeswax makes it not knot, lol, and using a curved upholstery needle to sew up your bottom seam may be easier.

Omg you're adorable! 😀 i loved watching this video.

KUDOS, great tutorial! The only problem is that I shared the video with my daughter. Now I am on the hook to help her makeover her Econ Trailer.

Thank you for this. I'm recovering our camper cushions. Great, easy instructions :)

Love it will try myself

Life Saver!!! Thanks for making this video.

This was very helpful, thank you!

Great instruction,,, you've saved me a good bit of money.. I'm building a campervan... Thanks

This worked perfectly for our "new" RV. Thank you thank you!!

I love your videos! We just bought our pop up camper this week and I'm stressing about the cushions, but I think I can follow this pretty easily. Also, the video about measuring the fabric for the cushions was very helpful too. 😃