Ruching Gone Wild
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Have you ever had a brilliant idea to make something and when you were done, it didn’t turn out at all like you expected?
That happens a lot around here!
But hey, you’ll never know
If you never try, right?
When Loren and I set out to put her room together, she told me she wanted to have a WWE and Dodgers theme.
You see, Loren loves WWE and the Dodgers.
That’s wrestling. And baseball.
Not exactly very feminine themes for a young woman’s room…
So when I saw this ruched comforter online here I thought it would be the perfect look for softening up all that SmackDown and Wrestlemania.
We found a Dodgers blanket that had an aqua background and we used that as inspiration for the colors on the bed.
Then we found a king-sized linen/cotton duvet cover in aqua.
She has a twin bed and my plan was to ruche (gather) it up to twin size. Genius, right??
I stretched elastic and stitched it in even rows to the inside of the duvet cover.
I think where I went wrong was making it too full. The king size duvet cover measured 110 inches wide and I needed to gather it up to 65 inches. That’s almost 4 feet of extra fabric gathered up on it.
It looks like ruching on steroids!
The top doesn’t look so bad. But the sides look like a balloon swag window treatment from the 1980s.
I don’t think the 1980s is really a decade of decorating I ever want to revisit.
And Loren says it’s really heavy to sleep under.
So…. out came all that elastic.
And I cut it down to the 65-inch twin size she needed. And put the fill back back in.
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And added a ruffled bedspread
Now that’s more like it!
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Much better don’t you think?
But then…
The other day I saw this Kantha-stitched coverlet. here
How cute is that?!?
Do you think I should try Kantha stitching her coverlet??
How many make-overs can one duvet cover have?
I’ll keep you posted!
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