How To Make Outdoor Cushion Covers

Looking to supervene upon your outdoor cushion covers? You've come to the right place!

I'1000 going to evidence y'all step-by-step how piece of cake information technology is to make new covers for those faded, time-worn, covered in bird poop and who knows what else, outdoor cushions!

Making new covers made my outdoor article of furniture await brand new over again! (Plus I spray painted the actual chair, again…good for another yr!)

I purchased this fix at Target years ago. It came with several pieces and the price was right, only then information technology was white with calorie-free green cushions.

Since then it's had ii wardrobe changes, non including this one, and a new paint task. I give it some other light glaze of spray pigment each Summer to freshen it upward.

Perchance some day I'll get a new gear up, merely when it still looks this good, why carp?

The before was really only so sad…downright embarrassing:

And the deck…gross! Not to worry though, I spent the past three days out there. (And believe me, my arms are not happy right now!) A little demo and lots of elbow grease and it'southward looking so much ameliorate. How does information technology end up like this??

UPDATE: You can encounter the deck Hither now!

Ok and so here we go!

Select your Fabric

I prefer to use stripes or something with a geometric blueprint to make cut a straight line easier. These are outdoor fabrics I found at JoAnn Fabrics.

Cut your fabric

Next you'll want to lay out your cushion so that folded over, the fabric covers the cushion from top to bottom. (Here I removed the old encompass, just I didn't remove them all. They really keep their shape better if you continue the old covers on.)

This textile is 54″ wide. I was barely able to cut enough for two cushions side-past-side. Your sides simply need to exist long plenty to meet each other in the middle with a ane/iv″ seam allowance for both elevation and lesser.

You lot'll desire them snug so they lay nicely!

Pin Fabric

Next, with right sides together (dorsum of fabric facing out), I pinned the side seam on both sides:

Fourth dimension to Sew

So, also starting at the folded edge, I sewed straight from folded edge to the open edge on both sides:

I'm not sure why I bothered pinning it all the way. After nigh a third of the mode, I took out the rest of the pins and followed the line of the material. (Meet why stripes are the way to go?)

Adjacent you'll demand to put your embrace back on the cushion (still inside out) and put a pin on each front end corner like the photograph below, where the corner of the cushion beneath stops:

You lot volition sew along this line to create your front boxed corners. Remove the encompass and sew together those seams:

Hither's your corner seam afterward sewing, both inside-out and right-side out:

You can trim the extra cloth, but I didn't bother. I didn't reinforce my seams either because I don't plan on removing them to wash them. I'll just make new ones once again when these accept had it.

Insert your cushion again and tada! Perfect!

Just look at that beautiful corner! And you can barely make out the side seam because of the stripes!

Stitch the new cover closed

To stop off the dorsum of the cushion, fold it similar you lot're wrapping a nowadays:

And hand sew it up:

Here's to another fabled year!

My pillows got a makeover besides…

Before:

Ahh…

Oh how we honey the after:

Then new!! (But we know better!!)

I wasn't crazy nigh the stripe at first because I used a stripe final year. I really wanted to use the geometric fabric I used on the pillow for the cushions, just there were only ii yards left on the commodities.

The stripe is and so classic, though and it is really easy to sew with, so I'm happy with how information technology turned out!

It took me almost eight yards to cover all the cushions. That includes a total of eight cushions.

That's approximately one k (54″ wide) per absorber, but I was able to cutting 2 side-by-side in my fabric. These are quite thick so you should exist able to practise the aforementioned.