Decorative homemade cushion covers

Enhance the atmosphere in your living room – with creative cushion covers and edding textile markers

To create a relaxing cosy, ambience in your living room, design your own pillow case or cushion cover by adding simple, warm, homely words such as LOVE, HOME, PEACE, or use your favourite quotes and phrases or pictures of hearts, butterflies, doves... the possibilities are endless! You can then use them to dress up your sofa or create a cosy corner where you can simply snuggle up and unwind.

All you need is some plain, light-coloured cushion covers, edding textile markers (available with fine and broad nibs and in 20 bold colours) and our downloadable stencils (or create your own). We show you how easily it's done.

Categories: Home decor
Living room
Products: Textile markers and pens
Materials: Textile
Difficulty: Easy peasy
Downloads: Images (ZIP)

Step-by-step

Step 1

Before you start, wash the fabric if it's new in order to remove any treatments or starches, and allow to dry. Print out the letter stencils in the size you want, and also your heart pattern. Place the cardboard inside the cushion cover so that the ink doesn't penetrate through to the reverse.

Step 2

If your letters are very small, use the fine nibbed edding 4600 textile pen. If you're working with various colours and don't want the colours to run together, let one colour dry before applying the next. For the heart motif you can use material with an existing heart or motif, or you can draw free-hand (or use a template) on plain material before attaching it to your cover in the desired space. Then cut the heart motif out of the structured fabric and sew it onto the cushion cover or pillow case.

Step 3

Finally, fix the design in place by ironing the cover without steam; this makes it wash-resistant up to 60°C. If you store the marker horizontally after use, you'll be able enjoy the intense colour and the pigmented ink for much longer. Horizontal storage prevents pigment collecting in the nib and blocking it and also prevents colour fading caused by pigment collecting at the end of the marker barrel.

Products and materials

edding 4500 textile marker

edding 4600 textile pen

Other materials

Plain light-coloured fabric (e.g.cotton or linen) cushion cover or pillow case
Small piece of light-coloured fabric to create your motif
Stencils for the letters – from an art & crafts or a stationery store, or you can use our stencils as downloadable PDF files
Cardboard the same size as the covers
An iron