Cushion Rejuvenation Session 1: Introduction

I absolutely love summertime. I love to be able to hang out in my backyard. But after the winter I unpack my cushions, from my patio furniture, and sadly, they look like this. You can see where the bars were, the sun has bleached them, if I turn it over you can see that we've lost a lot of color here, and it doesn't make for a very festive summer when your cushions look like these. So this class is all about recovering cushions. Now in this case, we're going to make a cover today, for this particular cushion, but there are many other things that you can do, not just patio furniture. For example, the methods that we use today, you can use to cover throw pillows, whether they have a gusset insides in them like this one or not. You can also learn how to make your own chair cushions, say your dining room chairs are uncomfortable, you can go get two inch foam from your local craft store, and you can make your own cushions using this exact method, so that you can put them on your dining chairs. You can also use this method to make a window seat, if you have a window seat you can make a long cushion for that. You can also add a handle to a small foam cushion and it could be a stadium seat, but it could be in whatever fabric, you want it to be in. So everything we're gonna cover in this class today, it's going to teach you how to measure the cushion, and find out exactly how much fabric you're going to need to cover it, and also how to cut it, and because we might wanna change this cushion again later, then we might want to put a zipper on it so we can unzip it, and then put another one on later. So we are going to talk about all the different types of fabric that you can use to recover cushions next.