Thursday, June 12, 2008

Hardly even a tutorial: the 8 minute duvet cover

OK then, this is the deal: Viola enherited my travel pillow to use as a doll duvet. So she needed a duvet cover. This is how I did it in 8 minutes sharp - including a taking a few photos:

What you need is:

  • A thrifted travel pillow, preferably Japanese since they stuff theirs with real feathers (I got mine of a hostel, and it followed me around the world for almost a year).
  • A tea towel.
Do as follows:

Fold the tea towel in half, and cut away about 1/6 of the fabric on one of the halfs.

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Unfolded it should look like this:

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Iron down a seam of about 1 cm, and zig-zag across (or do a neater version and fold the hem 2 times).

Fold the flap down like this:

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Assemble the duvet cover with the inside out, and sew the 3 edges. Your opening should look like this:

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Turn around, stuff the travel pillow indside. Place over scary looking doll, and your done with the 8 minute duvet cover:

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Top that one of with one girly granny blanket, and you can tick of another project that´s been taking too long to finish.

glitter granny blinkie

Best part: both makes it almost impossible to see the scary baby doll! Yeaj!

3 comments:

Ramona said...

Why are baby dolls always just a little bit scary? Thanks for the nice tutorial.

Tine said...

Hedder din datter Viola?! Min lille 3-årige hedder Viola ;-) Sjovt!

Mette said...

ramono - beats me? :-)

tine - det gør hun nemlig, vidste egenligt godt din også hed viola fra flickr. Meget smukt navn vi har valgt os, synes jeg ;-)