Animal cushions can bring the African bush, the Amazon rainforest, the Australian wilderness or the English garden into your room.
These will reflect your favourite animal or provide a matching colour for your settee. Whatever you choose they will be a focal point and have cause for discussion.
Picture Panels can be bought with lots of different kinds of animals printed on them.
These can be made into wonderful cushion covers for a basic cushion or made into a quillow with the internal quilt showing more of the theme on the front.
These panels could also be made into wall hangings instead of cushions and used like a picture on your wall.
You can create your own animal designs using techniques such as Appliqueor Cross Stitch These panels could also be made into wall hangings instead of cushions and used like a picture on your wall.
For your domesticated pets, cushions can be made to provide them with a place to sleep or to cushioned bed for them. The cushions can be made to fit the size of the basket or the box to give your pets extra warmth and comfort.
Cat Cushions
Cat cushions are fairly straightforward to make and apart from the occasional paw padding cats use to get comfortable they should last quite a long time.
I made some cushions for my cats baskets when they were just kittens and they are now 14 years old. Apart from a little colour fading they are still good.
Dog Cushions
Dog cushions are very different mainly due to the wear or mainly tear these will have to endure. Puppies have sharp teeth, bored dogs chew, and their claws and rip a cushion in half.
With all this in mind your dog still enjoys a comfortable bed to sleep in and if it has other things to bite and chew may leave the bed alone. If not then at least you know that these can be replaced fairly quickly.
If you are not confident in making a cushion for your pet, I have got a selection of ready made ones in books and more which is an Amazon shop. You may also find you could recover these yourself if you wanted a different outer cover.
Hope you enjoy making cushions to suit your type of animal.
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