Tute: No More Empty Corners (aka Bunny Ears)

Bunny ears - you know those floppy bits when your pillow cushion insert just doesn't reach into the corners.  

Do you just live with them or do you grab some polyester fibre fill and stuff them to make them look full and plump?

I'm going to show you how to get rid of them altogether.

Whether your pillow cushion covers are homemade or shop bought in the 10 minutes it'll take you to whip those covers off, turn them inside out, draw eight 5" lines, sew along and trim them those irritating empty corners will be forever gone and your home decor will be transformed.

No More Empty Corners (aka Bunny Ears) Tute

Step 1:

Turn the pillow cushion cover inside out and lay flat - press if necessary.  Notice it's a perfect square.

Step 2:

From the sewn seam (not the fabric edge) make two marks at 1/2" and 4" (for a 10" to 14" pillow cushion) or at the 1/2" and 5" mark (for a 16" to 20" pillow cushion) - for smaller/larger covers adapt your markings accordingly noting that the 1/2" mark never changes.  Do this along both sides at each of 4 corners (see my red markings).

Step 3:

Draw a line from the 4"/5" mark to the 1/2" mark on the opposite edge of the same corner.

Do this twice at each corner so you now have 8 drawn lines.

Step 4:

Sew along each line, on the line.

Step 5:

Trim 1/4" outside the newly sewn line to remove excess fabric at each corner.

Repeat at all 4 corners.

You're all done - that's all there is to it!

See how the trimmed corner slopes down slightly on the left compared to the original corner on the right

but once you put the pillow cushion insert into the cover you can't tell the cover isn't a square at all.

From the back, the trimmed corner is now on the right - which corner do you prefer, the bunny ear original or the trimmed version?

TIP:

I make a lot of pillow cushions so I actually have templates in my favourite sizes that include the sloping corners and it saves me marking/sewing/trimming the corners each time.  If you cut your fabric to this shape before you start to sew you can still add piping to the pillow cushion or use outside binding to join the front and back sections.

And here's the same pillow cushion with all four corners trimmed.

You can read more about my Mini Butterfly Pillow Cushion here and if you'd like to learn how to make a quilted cushion with a hidden zipper backing you'll find my tute here.

No More Empty Corners (aka Bunny Ears) Tute

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