Large stripey cushion cover

I made this cover a good few months ago, but never got round to adding it as a post to the blog.

 

I had found myself with a rather large, bare cushion and some stripey material that I picked up cheaply on a recent trip to Ikea, which had not yet found a use, other than occasionally adorning the side of the sofa with the nail varnish spill on...

After some umm-ing and ahh-ing and a bit of tape-measuring, a handy, zippable cushion cover was born.

All I did was...






Measure and cut out two squares of fabric 1-2 inches bigger than the square cushion all the way around.





I then gathered my tools (pins, needle, thread, sewing machine, scissors) and began pinning the two squares of fabric together, face to face, along three edges. I left the fourth edge open in order to attach a zip later on and turn the cushion cover the right way out eventually.

With the fabric still inside out (two pieces pinned face to face) I sewed along each of the three pinned sides with a sewing machine.

When all three sides were stitched, I folded back the fourth edges by about an inch and pinned them to make the hems for the zip to be sewn on to. I pinned the zip (about an inch shorter than the length of the cushion) to both sides of the top egde to the inside of the hems (now on the outside of the fabric, as it the cover is still inside out). Unzipping the zip at this point makes this easier.

 
When pinned in place, I sewed along each underside of the zip (the bit you don't see when the zip is done up). Where the zip didn't reach to the ends of the edge of the cushion cover, I turned the cover out the right way, and sewed the two sides of the cover together at each end of the zip, by hand, making sure that I sewed right up to where the zip started and finished, at each end, to give a neater finish.

In full swing on the sofa...!