Just a thought from my experience in recovering cushions. If you no longer want to use the old cushion covers, you can take them apart to use as a pattern for the new fabric. Cheers!
Just got our new-to-us pop up camper yesterday & have been debating about whether or not to do zippers or just elastic (fitted sheet style) covers. We have weird corner pieces too. Thanks for sharing out your process & what you learned.
Very nice video. Liked that you showed the good and the bad. You are very talented and not everyone can do what you did but at least you have given people hope.
That was a very entertaining video. Thank you for making it fun. 🙂I am trying to work out how to make a fitted sheet style cover for my curved bench seat backing too. I have a 7 year old and camping in our van is a bit dirty.. LOL.. so I'd love to be able to take them off and wash them. Any advice would be great. Would you have a pattern idea? I have Teal velvet I'd like to use. Not much stretch. 🤔 I'm worried about the fabric not sitting firm in the curve but have an idea to create tension with some straps that will act like braces (if that makes sense!).
I'm glad you liked the video. I've been thinking about your question on making it a slip cover style and I'm not entirely sure if this will work, but what if you put snaps or buttons along the back side to hold it in place?
Wow that came out great and you did a great job explaining it all. I didn't want to tackle that at all with our dinette or captain chairs...so we painted them 😁.
Hi! Sorry I didn't go into enough detail on those. My recommendation would be to use your current corner cushion cover as a template for getting the size of each piece right. Sadly I had to do mine twice and it was brutal (I nearly ran out of fabric!).
Just getting ready to tackle redoing the back cushions on our dinette that looks like hour’s. That you fit the video, my disappointment is that you really didn’t walk through how many pieces and how you measured etc those dang corner pieces! I was thinking about just covering the original material. Thanks.
Hi, sorry you didn't find all the info you were looking for. For doing the corner pieces, my recommendation would be to take apart an existing cover to use as a template for each piece. I tried tracing the shape and adding 5/8" for seam allowance and that messed up the curves and I had to redo them, wasting expensive fabric in the process.
Hi there! We're busy with some curved cusions at the moment and we cannot seem to get the curve right? Tips for sewing so that we don't get the corners pulling in? What's the trick for the measurements?
I had the same problem and then I realized that when I added the extra seam allowance I was making the curve smaller causing it to pull in. To account for it, I added double the amount of seam allowance on the straight ends and sides and kept the original curvature I measured on the curved side. I hope this makes sense? Let me know if you have more questions.
