Fantastic Creations

My roommate and her mother are expert sewers and have creating different projects, like a new unique shower curtain, ottoman cover with matching pills to help conceal my miss matched furniture. With my fascination with creating unique things and (maybe not really being able to find a duvet cover I like) I asked them if they would make a duvet cover, and the response I got was “no but I’ll teach you how.” So this last week I spent an hour looking at color combinations for a new cover that would match my room and still be fashionable so we ended up coming up with 4 separate colors and 3 days sewing my own unique duvet. 1^st is a black and while decorative pattern on my side. Next was an orange/yellow swirl pattern; the ends area pink and white pattern. I needed a little something extra to tie the green color in my room together so we ended up putting piping in between the colors.

I didn’t realize that there was so much that goes into it. There is precise measuring and cutting not just sewing fabric together. I also move sooo slow compared to Rebekah or her mom it probably took me 4x longer but at least I pretty much sewed the whole time myself. (There are some parts that required higher expertise that I did not sew, for the sake of beauty). Towards the completion of the project I though it would be a grand idea to add more green accents so I designed flower cutouts (appliqués) and Rebekah helped me organize then and sew them to the cover. I also learned how to make buttonholes and sew buttons on with a machine and not by hand. The scariest machine was the Serger and the warning that it can cut my fingers and all the different strings and way it sewed. Very professional looking though J

So after 3 days of pin sticks and back pain related to long hours at the sewing machine my cover is now finished and on my bed. I prefer the black/white side better than the orange J.

Terms I learned:

Pipping/Welting—the green part on the duvet

Sergering—the look that you see on the inside of shirts to help with fraying edges

Appliques—the flowers at the bottom

I’m thankful and happy that I learned how to sew the basics and understanding more about creating projects. It has become more of a lost art that I would like to know more about. I now want to make many more projects…up next is a kitchen apron J