proud mom moment, and new sewing to think about

larisavann 18 years ago

for the parents out there, i'm sure you can understand the joy when one of your children sleeps through the night with no "accidents". Well, DD has made it a week and we promised that she would get a big girl bed, so......

in addition to school clothes and such, I'm going to be hunting up directions for making sheets for a twin bed. We bought 2 sets that coordinate with her room, but I like the children to have at least 3 regular cotton sets and 1 flannel since they still sometimes spill water in the beds and what not.

If anybody can point me to a good link with directions for making sheets, it would be greatly appreciated. I have toddler bedding committed to memory already, but obviously that won't work for a twin.

Thanks bunches!!

Larisa, ready to sand and refinish a headboard and set up a twin bed within the next few weeks

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Kate XXXXXX 18 years ago

Whoo hoo! Now THERE'S a milestone - and a Right of Passage! I have pix of James 'sanding' his bed down when he got the 'proper' bed after the cot!

I just bought fitted sheets for the matress, but made the duvet covers and pillow cases, even going to the bother of stenciling the same clowns on them that I'd stencilled on the Roman Blind and the walls!

Here's a neat site with all sorts of bedding and other sorf furnishing ideas and instructions: >

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BEI Design 18 years ago

Larisa, congratulations on your daughter's achieving a real milestone! I posted this link here last fall:

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gives standard mattress sizes, you'll have to add the mattress depth to figure size and yardage for twin-sizes sheets.

Beverly

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Bobbie Sews More 18 years ago

There are fitted plastic sheets to fit under the cloth sheets in case of an "accident" during the night, or an accident of spilling a glass of juice. Barbara in SC

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larisavann 18 years ago

Thank you all!! I'm going to be repacking some of the stash and such to try and get things organized for making sheets. I suppose I'll have to make some for DS as well, but he also has a twin bed....think it's a twin extra long, though.

I have bookmarked these sites and will give a more detailed look in the morning. Hopefully I can sit at my desk instead of in the recliner - I fell and busted my left knee, shin, and foot which makes sitting rather difficult tonight.

Larisa

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