Making creative things for your home doesn’t always have to involve a lot of effort. In fact, I like it best when I can keep things simple and dollar stores are a great place to start. When it comes to creative things to make, these stores are packed full of many of the raw materials that the resourceful person with a limited budget needs to help brighten their home.
Discover how to make new cushions for your home the easy way.
Easy to Make Cushions
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Supplies Used and Recommendations:
- 2 tapestry placemats
- 2 plain colour placemats
- fabric glue or hot glue
Step 1: Choose Placemat Patterns
Pick materials that are easy to work with, have patterns that cover the entire surface of the fabric or are plain and make sure that the two placemats you pick match in width and length. Dollar store placemats often vary a bit in size.
Choose a material and a design that pleases you. Maybe a patterned front with a simple coloured backing or a two-colour cushion would appeal.
Step 2: Sew Placemats Together
Place the right sides flat against each other, so that the back side is facing out. Then stitch up three sides on the sewing machine, using the existing hem as a guide.
People have also used hot glue or fabric glue to hold fabric together, which would be even easier.
Step 3: Fill Cushion with Batting
Next, turn your pillow cover right side out, plump it up with batting or an old cushion and stitch the open end up by hand.
These cushions are a good example of something you can make in about half an hour using two fabric placemats. In the above example, I cut off some of the tapestry placemats to create a square cushion. If you leave it full-sized, it will be about 11″ by 18″. Both the tapestry placemats and the linen-look ones used here were from Dollarama.
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