Talk about a crazy week! This week included making curtains and cushion covers, finishing up an RV makeover, getting a crown replaced on a tooth because the recently installed crown broke in half, dealing with identity theft fraud for a loved one, finding out the gender of Melinda’s baby, Melinda’s family packing up for a ministry trip in newly finished RV, RV breaking down, late night rescue trip with little sleep and new plan of travel put together… and we have not gotten posts written!
When we first planned to make cushion covers for the dinette in the RV, we were going to try to make them as much like the originals as possible. But when we actually got down to work decided that it made more sense to make slip covers that could easily be taken off and thrown into the wash when necessary. So we made long tubes with the bottom and side seam sewn similar to a pillow case with the top turned under for a finished edge. The tubes were cut longer than the length of the cushions. We allowed for seam allowances, and hem and added the width of the cushion end for the tubes. After the bottom edge was sewn, we stitched a box bottom to make the end of the tube a rectangle. You can see a demonstration of that technique here. 
The box bottom end of the cushions is the end that will show on the dinette cushions. 
Since the other end of the cushions were going to be against the wall, we folded the extra fabric like a present and marked where to attach pieces of velcro. With the velcro sewn in place it is very easy to secure the slip cover in place over the original cushion. 
The new cushion slip covers really brighten up the RV dinette.
You can also see a sample of the new curtains we made. We had hoped to get pictures of the dinette and the rest of the curtains in the RV while in use, but that will have to wait. At least the trip started out great!
You can read more about the new ministry Melinda’s family has launched at Four Point Families.
Wow. I love the way you made those covers for the cushions.. thanks for the idea
I know this is an old post but what fabric did you use? Also what stitch did you use when sewinh the end?
Thanks!
We used a fabric that was for outdoor furniture so it would be more sturdy. As far as I can remember, we just used regular straight stitching for all the sewing. Hope this helps!
how do you attach the velcro to the material.
We attached the velcro to the fabric by machine stitching.
How many yards were needed for each cushion? My camper is similar and I want to order some fabric for this project, but my pop up is closed right now and I do not know the dimensions.
Since this project was done a long time ago, not sure how much fabric we purchased. Melinda’s family now own a different RV with different sized cushions from the ones in this post. You would need to measure around the length and width of the cushions you have.
From the post:
“So we made long tubes with the bottom and side seam sewn similar to a pillow case with the top turned under for a finished edge. The tubes were cut longer than the length of the cushions. We allowed for seam allowances, and hem and added the width of the cushion end for the tubes.”
Good luck with your project!
What kind of material to use for the curtains I redid our lining in ours .they get so wrinkled any ideas how to prevent that thx!!
We used fabric that was suitable for indoor/outdoor for the curtains as well as the cushions. The curtains were not lined. The fabric would wrinkle
when washed, but could easily be ironed out.
The link to make the bottom box does not seem to be working. Can you repost it or find one similar? Thanks!
I changed the link in the post and it seems to be working so far! If not try this https://sew4home.com/tips-resources/sewing-tips-tricks/how-box-corners
how do we order our own? i am interested.
This is just a post about how we made slip covers for our own cushions. Sorry, we do not make them to sell.