recovering cushions

I couldn't find a lot of information about recovering a couch. There's a lot on doing a dining room chair phffffffp! No help.
If you have loose cushions you can recover your couch. You need time and focus. Its well worth it.
All the cushions are removable now. The inside cushion are removable as well. You can wash all the cushion covers if necessary.
I chose 100% cotton which means they are fire retardant as well.
This couch is for a young family with a active dog. They have lots of relatives and friends that come over often.
I got fabric on sale. I bought a rugged medium blue for the seat cushions I used a matching blue stripe for the upper cushions the seat cushions have the matching striped cording to tie it together

I took apart the old cushion to use as a pattern. I made an inside muslin cushion I used velcro to close its clean and new and nice

added velcro

These pictures are not in order obviously sew the velcro on and the stuffed one is the finished one. Nice clean and new

The outside cover

Again I used the old cushion as a pattern

I had to make a couple darts in the corners . I used velcro to close these. This is the upper back cushions

I had to sew across this edge which makes a flat edge

Now on to the bottom cushions. They have cording and zippers. They are way more work. I saved the old zipper. first i basted the seam shut and layed the zipper on and pinned it.

I had to do corner darts . I made my own cording recovering the old cording from the old cushions. Save as much as you can from the original. I used a zipper foot to apply the cording. get it as close as you can keep reading on to older posts it goes on and on!
This project took about a month. Every cushion got a new muslin cover.
This couch is probably 10 years old. It is looking awesome.

This was a bear The L shaped cushions. Use lots of pins

You need to sew a piece of felt across the seam where the zipper is. If you don't when you go to put your cover on the seam will rip! Trust me I already did it

This is the L shaped part it was hard to do You need to baste and be patient. It took 3 hours to sew this cushion. The oblong shaped ones took 2 hours. There was one last cushion that went in the center that one took awhile. It was the biggest the zipper wrapped around the cushion it was a challenge. Its finished. The couch looks great and all fresh and new. There's a lot of satisfaction gleaned from restoring this piece. I kept it out of the land fill. Its still comfortable.
The arms need new foam. Stapeling that all back in might be scary. Hey I can't believe the transformation

Here it is all finished there were 2 like this
Once installed in the couch it was impressive. I made 6 upper cushions and 5 seat cushions. Now I have to arms left to reupolster.