“Moving
around every 3-9 months can make it difficult to feel like you have a home.
There's always the family house that you grew up in, but sometimes you just
need a taste of that when you are away at school. After years of having a
typical college dorm set up, I decided that it was about time I updated my
bedroom decor. A graduate school apartment should look more refined than an
undergrad dorm, right? After some quick searching online, I came across a
variety of lovely intricate textured bedding from Anthropologie. Unfortunately,
the price tag, north of $200, was way outside of my budget. For the time being
I pushed them to the back of my head labeled in a folder called "someday". “
That
was my DD's voice. On one of my visits to see her, she conveyed these thoughts
to me during one of our late night conversations. I was curious to see what it
was, so she quickly googled the image.
She asked me if I could recreate it, and
I told her that it was simply too ambitious and couldn’t be done. Sadly we
attempted to look for cheaper alternatives, but none of them could compare to
the original. While searching, we stumbled across a blog where someone had
posted their experience doing a DIY of the exact bedding we were interested in! We excitedly read through the part one and part two. Although it
appeared to be quite a massive undertaking, we decided right then that we would
commit to the project. We made a goal to complete the
bedding during the Labor Day weekend.
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| 15x15 square with 6 inch diameter center |
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| One complete block |
Determining the correct
size and creating a template took us 4 hours, after which we spent about 6
hours (two pair of hands) assembling the rosette squares.
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| Blocks joined to form the first row |
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| Completed top placed on top of full sized comforter |
We
needed to attach each rosette square to some existing fabric in order to
fashion a cover. We picked up two full size bed sheets in a coordinating color
and arranged the squares leaving a 2" border all the way around to make up for
the missing inches needed to cover the comforter.
Afterwards,
attaching our quilt squares to the top sheet took quite a bit of thinking
because neither of us are quilters. Because of this, we spent a long time using
trial and error to figure out how to attach the quilt top to the top bedsheet
without any puckering and preserving our 2’ border all around so that the final
cover would be the correct size for the comforter. 10 hours later, we had
assembled everything and created ties to close off the open end.
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| And the final product |
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| And a closeup |
In
case you were interested in re-creating this yourself, I’ve included a couple
of helpful hints that can save you the time we wasted.
- · 2 Full Size Sheets for the actual cover
- · Flannel Bed sheets for quilt top -1 Queen, and most of 1 Full
·
When you attach the flannel to the top sheet, use a disappearing ink pen to mark the square
corners first before attaching. Once you have marked them, match the markings
of the corners exactly with each corner of each quilt square (we did this using
safety pins). Finally, secure each corner with tie stitches using thick crochet
thread and a big needle. The attachment was from the center squares to the
periphery.
Ties: 9 used
And the verdict and the most rewarding part of this project - quality time spent with dd!
