As Ellie and I planned her new room we had tons of ideas for her bedding. We shopped and shopped and couldn’t find anything that matched our vision. Everything looked a little too…regular…for my spunky little girl. So for the past week I’ve been sitting at my trusty Brother sewing machine trying to create something that matched Ellie’s style and personality.
She wanted something that looked a bit like this, with the colorful fabric stripes (from Bee In Our Bonnet):
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We also loved the ruffles of this (Waterfall Ruffle Duvet Cover, originally found at Urban Outfitters):
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And the look of this (from Kiki Creates):
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I found some great fat quarters at Craft Warehouse (most, but not all, were Moda fabric) that matched the colors Ellie wanted and I started ruffling. I ruffled and ruffled and ruffled. I used two white twin sheets I had in the linen closet and made my own duvet (I filled it with a light weight comforter from Target).
I think the finished product turned out a lot like our vision and really represents Ellie’s uniqueness. I just love it!
It was not easy getting the whole bed in one frame in her tiny little room. For some pics I had to stand on a stool in the hallway.
Did you find Ruf Ruf’s bed under the table? That’s for Ellie’s favorite stuffed animal. He’s like a member of the family.
The ruffles were made of pink, green, yellow and turquoise fabric. I’ll show the ruffling technique later this week. It was a rather simple process, but time consuming with so many ruffles. The pillow and top of the duvet are embellished with appliques using the fabric remnants.
I ironed heat transfer paper onto the back of the fabric remnants and cut out the hearts and letters using my Silhouette. I placed them to look like a fluttery heart pennant garland. Ellie loves hearts. And garlands.
After ironing the shapes on, I sewed them all on with my machine.
Then I sewed a straight stitch with brown thread for the pennant string.
The “E” is in the Channel font – perfect for my fancy little girl.
I also added an E and some hearts to a pillow sham I found buried in the linen closet. Now I have matching bedding! The yellow and gray pillowcase is from the sheet set Ellie chose at Target. The set came in a matching fabric bag, which I cut up and made into a ruffle on her duvet. Now the sheets match the homemade duvet! Score!
What do you think of Ellie’s new custom bedding? I think I’m going to make curtains to match. Maybe white ones with the heart garland across the top and a few ruffles lining the bottom. Or maybe something less matchy-matchy.
And on to the other new additions…
A few weeks ago I was in Cannon Beach for a girl’s weekend and I found this in a little shop called “The House of the Potter”.
It immediately reminded me of my girl. It’s currently sitting on her night stand, but it may move to her wall when the gallery wall goes up.
I also gave her lamp a revamp. It used to look like this:
But a little spray paint a a new shade have turned it into this:
They both look nice on her night stand. It won’t stay like this, though. I would like a different alarm clock (maybe a retro looking metal one) and I may stencil the table top or move in a different night stand altogether from the garage. It’s currently waiting to be painted.
For now, her room looks like this:
If you’re wondering what her bed frame looks like, you can keep wondering. She doesn’t have one. Her mattress actually sits on the floor, waiting for the hubs to build her a platform bed. The bedding, however, didn’t look right that way so I slid some Rubbermaid tubs full of baby clothes under the mattress to lift it up. Tricked ya, didn’t I?! Hopefully the bed will be built by the end of March. Redecorating a room is a much slower process than I want it to be.
But in the mean time, Miss E is loving her bedding. I’ll show you the details of how I made the duvet later this week.
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What a fun room! The quilt rocks! Love the colors too.
Thank you! Ellie’s stipulation in everything is that it be fun. Fun colors. Fun design. She is all about fun.
Oh, Heidi!!! I love it!!!! Amazing!
Thanks Mere!
LOVE IT! Great sewing skills! Thank you for using London’s room as part of your inspiration!
Thanks so much! My daughter LOVES the gallery wall you made.
This is gorgeous, I would love this room, YOU DID A FANTASTIC job on this bedding.
Awwww…thanks!!
This is genius and gorgeous! I am in love with the texture and the rainbow of colors. Perfect for a little girl. Way to go!
Thank you so much! My little girl is quite the design guru.
And Moda makes such great colors of fabric. I just fell in love with the bright pinks and turquoises.
Beautiful!!! Such a creative design, and the colors are wonderful!
Thank you!
Found you through Infarrantly Creative. This is ADORABLE!! Pinning it!
Thank you! I love Infarrantly Creative! What an honor to be featured by her on Facebook. So glad you linked over! Welcome!
LOVE!! You did a beautiful job and her duvet is so bright and cheerful. Love the ruffles and the little heart garland is too cute!
Thanks so much! I had to make the duvet like my girl…and she is definitely bright and cheerful.
Holy cow, that’s gorgeous!!! I want one!! You are one talented lady!
Thanks so much!!
all so pretty! but i love the rainbow ruffle!
It’s my favorite part too
Thank you!
I love, love, love this! I love the garland and her E the most! She is such a lucky girl, and I bet it’s so nice to be a middle child in your house, and the only little girl!
She really is a lucky little girl. No one to have to compromise with on design…except me.
Adorable!
Thanks!
I LOVE it! Way to go, Heidi, so creative.
Thank you so much everyone!
Heidi it is absolutely beautiful. Way to go working with your daughter to create such a special space.
I wondered if you’d heard of Annie Sloan’s Chalk Paint, I am doing a workshop with it to learn how to redo several pieces of furniture and it made me think of you – simply beautiful remodels
Thanks for sharing this with us, makes me want to get to work on something fun
Chalk paint is one of the next things on my “To learn about” list. I know a lot of bloggers out there that use it and love it. And I hear you can get it in so many colors. I’d love to hear about the workshop!
Love it! That room is perfect for Ellie!
I love that it looks more and more like her every day
LOVE the whole concept here! Such a pretty room and I’ve never seen a pattern like the rainbow effect of ruffles at the bottom. So very clever and gorgeous! Great job girl!!! Love the originality:)
Thank you so much!
You’re amazing! Seriously. Her room is gorgeous and I LOVE the bedspread. gorgeous!
Wow, wow, wow! This if fabulous. To purchase something like that would cost a fortune. It’s truly beautiful. I would love to be on your link party list. My party – The Inspiration Board is up right now and I know my readers would love this. Hope to see you there.
http://carolynshomework.blogspot.com/2012/03/inspiration-board-link-party-40.html
Darling! My girls would love this! Thanks for sharing!
Heidi, this is the best ever. I love everything about Ellie’s bed! Never seen a ruffled bedspread like that. Very creative and beautiful and fun. Also love the heart garland and the E. How very special. Lucky for both of you that you couldn’t find anything (pre-made) you liked because this is OVER THE TOP fabulous!!!
Just Superb
Heidi….. you should make more… many many MANY more and sell them!!! AMAZING!!!!!!!!! It’s really that GREAT!!!
I would love it if you share this over at The DIY Dreamer… PLEASE
http://thediydreamer.blogspot.com/2012/03/from-dream-to-reality-linky-party-6.html
I love the comforter! What an adorable idea!
So pretty! My daughter would love to have a ruffled rainbow on her bed!
What an amazing design – you should be famous! I found you from Homework – congrats on the feature. And the lovely room!
I love it! The bedspread from Kiki Creates blog is the one I am going to make for our bedroom and I just love the colors you did for your daughter’s! SO cute.
I love this!!!! So pretty and the colors are so much fun!
Wow! It turned out absolutely beautiful!! You did a fantastic job!
Love it!! Wonderful use of fat quarters.