How to make cushions with your own hands

Many decorators in their work use such design elements as cushions. They allow you to bring into the room a sense of completeness and a subtle touch of refinement. Most often these products have a square or rectangular shape, but there may be pillows in the form of a heart or a circle. You can also go in this direction and update the interior of your apartment. On sale you can find a large number of finished products, but it will be difficult to choose the color and shape exactly what you need. If the desire to update the appearance of the room you still have, then you can make cushions with your own hands. To do this, it is enough to have the most basic skills of some needlework.

The fastest and easiest way is to sew. For this it is necessary to pick up two types of fabric: one for embankment (coarse calico), the second for a cover. For the latter, it is better to purchase decorative material, which can be bought in a variety of colors. As a printed material, you can buy a special material designed for pillows. As a rule, it is packed in 1 kg. This amount is enough for several finished products. Now it is necessary to cut the fabric for embroidering, sewing and stuffing with purchased material. You can make pillows on the sofa with your own hands in the shape of little animals. Such products will especially please small children, because, as an element of decor, they will look like real toys. A cover or pillowcase that exactly matches the shape of the pillow must be sewn separately. It can then be removed and washed as needed.

Cushions with their own hands can also be made by knitting. The basis of the pillow is better to sew the same way as described in the previous method. But you can also stuff yourself with a knitted cover. To make a cushion for a sofa, it is better to choose either woolen or cotton yarn. Such products will perfectly hold the shape, even if they were made with knitting needles. The pattern can be the most varied, if one-ton threads are used for knitting. You can also untie the various favorite cartoon characters, if the pillow is designed for the children's room. Or any fantasy pattern, if it is planned that the finished product will occupy an honorable place on the sofa in the living room. If you are crocheting, it is worth picking up threads that are color-contrasted with the material of the embankment. Such a pillow will have a unique appearance and can become that "color spot", which is often resorted to by many famous decorators. The main thing here is your imagination and desire to update the interior.

You can also embroider cushions with your own hands. This, perhaps, is the most laborious way of manufacturing similar products. Very often you can find pillows that were made by embroidering a "cross" woolen thread on the burlap. If desired, you can find a large number of schemes for this method. And then on your finished product will be embroidered painting of a famous artist or a portrait of a beloved man. It is enough to have the skills, perseverance and desire to achieve the goal.

In addition to embroidery, sofa cushions can be made with the help of macrame. To do this, it is necessary to select the appropriate cords, which will not only preserve the nodes, but also give the pillow a beautiful appearance. The finished product is best used as a pillowcase.

Thus, there are a large number of ways to make sofa cushions yourself. We need only a creative approach and possession of the most basic skills of at least some needlework. And then your house will be transformed, playing with new unusual colors.