Design your own cushions

Create special effects with lettering stencils

To make a sofa really cosy, you need to add some comfy cushions. Ideally, they should match the decor of the room and look really stylish. With that in mind, what could be better than making your own! For this decorative idea we bought light-coloured cushion covers and decorated them using stencils and edding textile markers and pens. You can see here how this can result in some fantastic creations. When it comes to selecting a colour scheme, you’ll be spoilt for choice – because edding textile markers are available in up to 20 vibrant colours and two different stroke widths.

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

Step-by-step

Step 1

First, wash new fabrics to remove any starch so that the ink can penetrate the material. Think up a design or an inscription. Our examples show: “YOU AND ME!” and “WEEKEND”, but you can add absolutely anything you want! Insert the cardboard inside the cushion cover so that the ink won’t bleed through to the back. Arrange the design on the cushion and use the thinner edding 4600 textile pen to draw the outline of the letters on the fabric.

Step 2

Using the thicker edding 4500 textile marker, colour in the letters or add more detail. Finally, make the design permanent by ironing it (without steam) to ensure it will withstand wash cycles of up to 60°C.

Step 3

Stencils are very effective for designing and adding lettering to greetings cards and Christmas cards. When applying to paper, choose edding 1300 colourpens for the perfect result – they're available in metal boxes containing 10, 20 or 40 different colours.

Products and materials

edding 4500 textile marker

edding 4600 textile pen

Other materials

Ready-made cushion covers or pillowcases in light-coloured fabric (e.g. cotton or linen)
Lettering stencils (from a specialist craft shop or downloaded from our website)
Cardboard to insert between the layers of material so that the ink won’t bleed through.
An iron