This is my first DIY sewing exercise. A cushion cover.

Materials:

• Recycled fabric. In this case Ikea curtain remnants.
• Cotton thread
• Ready-made cushion or cushion filling
• Sewing scissors, pins and a needle

A basic square cushion cover is relatively simple.

Instructions:

• Cut 2 pieces of fabric to size. Be inventive and put interesting prints together.
• Place the 2 fabric sheets of the cushion cover together, with the fabric design facing inwards
• Pin all 4 sides of the fabric square together
• Start sewing along the sides, complete 3 sides
• Turn the cushion cover out. Before it was inside out!
• Push the ready-made cushion or filling inside
• Finish sewing the fourth side and close

There are many other ways to make a cushion cover, as I discovered afterwards, but in the meantime, it’s a start!