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Ever thought about making your own cushion covers to add to your home décor? Cushion covers are not only a great way to protect your throw pillows; they will also make your living room look fabulous. Cushion covers can help you add a pleasant touch to your living room and are quite inexpensive to make. You can easily find pillow forms at leading departmental or home furnishings stores. They would usually come in shapes such as square, round even triangular and ablong ones to add to the variety. Along with them you will need to get pillow panels that are usually sold at fabric stores.

While buying pillow panels from fabric stores make sure that you buy a size that is just slightly larger than the actual size of the pillow. This is to ensure a generous seam allowance which will allow you to add a zipper to the cushion cover. You must therefore take care that you have at least some excess inches of border fabric in order to allow for the addition of the zipper.

You will then need to make sure that the two panels of fabric are sewn together with the wrong side out. You can then follow this process with the addition of zipper on to the cushion cover.

You can literally let your imagination run riot when it comes to making your own cushion covers. For instance you can mix and match colors in order to come out with bright cushion covers that can brighten up any living room. Alternatively, you can also choose sober colors if understated elegance is your preference. Similarly if you are adept at embroidery you can also try out various decorative designs on the cushion covers that you will be sewing. You are your own boss, remember?

You can also find many useful online guides from where you can learn to stitch your own cushion covers these days. It is only a matter of time and experience before you begin to make cushion covers that can match factory produced ones.