There are two reasons to sew your own DIY duvet cover. But what you want to do on the bottom of the duvet is fold the entire seam under 1/4″ and iron and sew in place. This length will be used for both the front and back sides of the duvet cover. Time to get out the machine! Fasten the velcro along the bottom of the duvet cover so that it folds toward the back. It is nice, trendy and economical. In which case, you will need to buy a longer length of fabric so you can join pieces together to create the right width. Some covers now have ties inside to facilitate.
Turn duvet cover inside out, press with iron, pin, and sew a 1-inch seam, just covering allowance of your first seam. Check out How to Sew a Twin Duvet Cover after the jump…. Yeah, way confusing without pics right? I made my cover to be joined 4″ from each edge of the mattress. Can't wait to make it for my toddler daughter when she's a little older! A center panel and 2 side panels. Home decor weight fabric is 54″ wide. There is an issue together with your website in web explorer, may check this? Perfect timing! This tutorial is for adding piping to a cushion but the same principles apply.
You will be doing simple straight line sewing and the most difficult part is dealing with the large volume of fabric involved. Now fold it in another 2″ and iron. Or, alternatively, what do you do with the extra bedding on your standard twin size?Thanks,Darcey, Thanks for this tutorial. , Today I want to tell you why I started sticking to, I read this morning that you are the culmination o, Today I woke up and felt filled to the brim with g, My whys right there . Now bring the two unfinished 90″ edges together and sew the seam, creating a tube. If you’re using a printed fabric just on the top side {and a cheaper fabric or flat sheet on the bottom side}, I would think you’d need 5 yards. When determining the size of the side panels, it says “68-52=14.” it should be 16, though. 14″ + 4″ for seam allowances = 18″ panels. With right sides of the fabric together, pin the long edge of one side panel to the long edge of the center panel. How much yardage would you need if you are doing two separate sides? Now with your duvet inside out, sew the top side closed and finish the edge by serging, sewing with a ziz zag stitch, or cutting with pinking shears. Or does my family just sleep roughly with the covers? As I mentioned previously, the standard widths of store-bought fabric are less than the width of a duvet. Clean finish the seam edges with a zig zag stitch to prevent fraying. This will be the open side where you put in the duvet, so don’t sew the front and back pieces of fabric together. So confused at first but once I read through your directions carefully it made total sense. Love your blog!Sandra. One inch pieces of velcro sewed on every 8″ (properly aligned) would also work well. I ordered this twin comforter which was the least expensive decent one I could find on amazon. Thats a total of 5 yards used so far. web hosting provider at a honest price?
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Now grab your other 54″ wide X 2.5 yard panel. THANKS! Sew them together with a 3/4″ seam. Therefore, you will need to piece them to create a wider fabric piece. It will probably not be wide enough to cover the duvet with one piece. blog loads a lot faster then most. Sigh, I tried!
This is the example I will use. In my case, this was 82″ – 46″ = 36″ii. then you could also make some pillows in the coordinating fabric, cute! In my case, this was 18″ + 1 1/2″ = 19 1/2″. This is why I love this blog, craft-i-ly efficient! Another option is to use two different fabrics – you could use a pattern for the center panel and a solid to go down the sides (which is what I decided to do). To do that, I started by cutting the entire width of my fabric (this is home decor fabric so it is 54″ wide) to the length I needed it, which is the length of the duvet plus 4 inches. Genuis! Wow, you DO love us readers to do such an in-depth tutorial! Make a double hem at the bottom of the front of the duvet cover: Make a 1″ fold at the bottom of the duvet cover so that the wrong sides of the fabric are together.
Its not a bad deal to go for it. ), The black and white scallop stripe fabric that I used for this project. Lay the duvet on a large table or on the floor and measure its width and length. Only one of the pieces of fabric will need to be cut to this width. (We will cover exactly what you need to do in the instructions below). Let me tell you how I came to this in a very confusing manner, then show you a diagram so it all makes sense (hopefully). They are big enough to cover the whole thing without requiring any fabric joins. If your fabric has a pattern, make sure it is facing the right way up. Required fields are marked *. Here is how I figured it: 54″-2″ for seam allowances = 52″ is what we have on each panel so far. Before you start, cut off the selvage edge of the fabric (that’s the strip that runs down both sides which doesn’t have the same pattern/color). Thanks, crafty, prudent ladies! 68″-52″=14″ is what we need on either side of each panel.
The cover in this post is for a twin size duvet which measures 64" x 86".
Lay it flat and sew from the corner 17″ in and back stitch.