Camper cushions

painted

Not sure whether I should be here or in DIY!

We bought a Motor Home and the cushions need recovering.I will be making them myself so any ideas on the following:-
Good quality, low cost material and where to get it at the lowest price.
Other ideas on what to use ie duvet covers.

I want to keep the cost low but would like it to look as good as possible

DollyDabbler

I wouldn't cover the seats with material from a duvet cover, unless i was making a pattern from it before cutting into a more suitable fabric. You can get some lovely upholstery or chenille material from ebay or do you have an Abhakan fabric shop near you at all?

camelot1001

I have just made some seat pads for conservatory chairs with material from Ikea, a very heavy cotton which seems hard wearing. Might be worth a look.

caroc

Most charity shops are brimming with second hand curtains which you can cut up, usually £5 to £10. Most curtain material is hardwearing. Measure and work out your amount and go shopping ! If you don't find anything , dunelm and that kind of place always have curtains in the sale.

thriftwizard

Curtain fabric would be excellent, and might be even cheaper from your local Scrapstore, if you have one. You can fill a bin-bag for £5 at ours, though there's a small annual fee for belonging.

painted

Sorry for my late reply, my laptop has been very poorly!
Thank you for the replies
I dont know if I would get enough material (the same pattern) going the charity shop route.
I had forgotten about Ikea tbh!
Scrapstore sounds interesting, but I've never seen one round here
Also Abhakan, no shops near me

thriftwizard

There are Scrapstores in Yeovil, Minehead & Bristol. I being to the Poole/Bournemouth & Puddletown ones, and there's always fabric, some of it still on the bolt.

Rosenberg's are doing a pop-up at Sherborne next Thursday & Friday, if you're towards that end of things; they had some stunning fabrics at very good prices at the show in Shepton Mallet last week & I rather think I'll be taking at least one daughter & my trainee-daughter-in-law up there at some point.

I often come across huge curtains in my line of work (vintage fabrics) and they're quite likely to come in groups of 4 or even 6 - enough fabric to re-curtain several rooms, with enough left over to make cushions! From my point of view, they will fetch less as curtains than if I spilt them up & sell them on just as fabric - which people often tell me they're going to make into curtains! Bit of a shame, really, but that's how it is. I suspect most charity shops wouldn't put really big curtains out, as they'll only put stuff on the shop floor that's likely to sell quickly & people don't "see" curtains as a source of fabric, just as - well, curtains; if you asked, they might keep some back for you.

My best find was paying virtually nothing for a big bin-bag of "fabric" that turned out to me two huge pairs of Laura Ashley bespoke curtains in good condition; they were part of a job lot that I paid £10 for. The bigger pair measured over 3m wide each, by 2.3 m long, and the others weren't much smaller. That's a LOT of high-quality fabric. The two pairs have been remade into full-length curtains for our hallway & the doors into the conservatory, and 5' curtains for the living room, plus some cushion covers. And there's still some left - but you can have too much of a good thing!

So given a few weeks, you should be able to turn something up somewhere at a very reasonable price.

CandyB101_2

I've just finished making new curtains and seat cushion covers for my motorhome, I used 2 pairs of curtains donated by mil, really took my time to ensure I had enough for all ... on the seat and back cushions I used a cream canvas material as you wouldn't see it and added velcro to make them removable. Just got to cover the buttons and sew the tie backs ... and I'm done :-)