No Sew Ottoman Slip Covers

If you like fun fabric, but don't know your way around a sewing machine (like me), here is a great simple way to spruce up your old ottomans.

Ingredients and cost:

• 3 yards of fabric-$21
• 1 tube of Liquid Stitch-$1.59
• 1 roll of burlap ribbon-$3 (half off at Hobby Lobby)
• 8 old earrings
• 2 old square ottomans
• Painters tape-on hand
• Time spent on project: 75 minutes (minus the time it took the liquid stitch to dry)

1. Step 1-Pray you bought enough fabric to cover two square ottomans.

 2. Cut fabric.

 3. Celebrate the fact you miraculously bought enough fabric for the project.

 4. Get rid of excess corner fabric. I used the eyeball technique and some painters tape as a guideline. If you're a perfectionist you should measure.

 5. Examine ottomans and come up with a plan. I went with the pleated corners technique.

 6. "Hem" the edges. This time I used fabric glue.  Seriously? This stuff exists? It's amazing.

 7. Here is what it looks like. It's called liquid stitch.

 8. I ran it along the edge of the fabric and I folded and pressed. So easy.

 9. Let dry. Direction said 24 hour. I made it 3. So this is why it's not the greatest invention, but it's still great.

10. Cover ottoman. Pleat corners and pin. I didn't have any pins on hand (I'm not a seamstress) so I used some old earrings. They worked surprisingly well.

11. Add detail ribbon. I chose a burlap ribbon in yellow.

 

Before and after.

 We're almost there.

 Another before/after shot.