Hessan linen 42cm square cushion covers

Following on from last week's recycled hessian potato sack cushion cover's, I couldn't help myself but make more cushion covers to the standard 42cm (16 1/2inch) square cushion size.

These two cushion covers are making their way to Germany for a gift, complete with matching gift card (recycled card and paper) using remnants of the cushion cover hessian and linen fabric.






Which size is best do you think? The square or rectangle cushion cover? I think I prefer the rectangle.

Shirt cushion cover

I received a book voucher last Christmas, and ordered a sewing project book called Sew La Tea Do by renowned craft blogger Pip Lincolne

The book is filled with many wonderful sewing projects, including a men's shirt front cushion cover tutorial, which I thought I'd try out myself.

Mr gave me one of his unwanted worn work shirts, which I used for this project.

I used one of my nautical op-shop fabric cushion covers that I made last year, unpicked the 'opening' side and removed it to give a smarter shirt front as follows:


What's really clever about shirt front cushion covers, is the fact you don't have to create an opening for the cushion to go in, you simply unbutton the shirt front, slip in your cushion, and button back up again.


For extra cheesy-ness, I included the front shirt pocket, which can be used to hold the remote control..haha!

Nautical Cushion Covers

We've had our lounge room cushion covers for about 8 years, and they've starting to look grubby. I hadn't found it necessary to replace them, until I found this nautical themed fabric in my op shop on Tuesday, the lady only charged me $2 for it!


For my first ever home made cushion cover, I used my existing cover as a template, and followed the same fold-over rather than introducing a zip. It took me just under an hour to complete them both, it is possibly the easiest sewing project ever!


Herewith, my first cushion cover refashion: