From now to the end of January, we’re running the Sofa Rescue Workshop right here at ModHomeEc. Whether you’ve had it with your worn and torn seat cushions, the saggy, slumpy back cushions, the intolerable frump factor, or you finally just threw a bedspread over the whole ugly mess, there’s a solution.
You won’t have to go another month with your sofa disaster staring you in the face every morning like this one. Help has arrived.
This week, I’m going to show you how to make and sew all new sofa cushions as well as some other slick sofa rescue techniques. This will include new foam (mine will be delivered today or tomorrow), a dacron wrapping to add softness and much needed loft, fabric layout, cutting, sewing a zipper in the back piece of the boxing and stitching all the pieces together so you have a perfectly aligned cushion.
Oh yeah, as a bonus, when we’re ready to stuff the cushion, I’ll show you a virtual physics demo that you’ll love.
To prime your cushion-making, sofa-saving pump, take a look at this inspiring big cushion making post over at www. icouldmakethat.org.
Here’s what I love about this project, besides the fact they’re fantastic:
1. She just sucked it up and did it, way to take charge!
2. She made all of that tedious cording and was able to stitch it in place beautifully
3. All of those fun pillows on the back of her sofa.
4. The fabric she chose
Read the full post right here.
By the way, my tutorials that she referred to were done a while ago. I’m a much better photographer and teacher now. Here’s a link to the old cushion tutorial, but we’ll be doing an entirely new one this week. If you don’t understand something, ASK! Remember-there are no stupid questions. Personally, I always need more than one explanation when I’m trying to learn how to do something.
So, get your notebooks ready and let’s go rescue your sofa.
