Day 15 The Bedding

Here is the bedding we ordered for Baylee's room, from the "Shabby Chic" line at Target. It's pretty hard to find in stock and pretty expensive It's a duvet and shams set that runs about $90.00 for a queen. I got it on ebay for 60.00 + 10.00 shipping. I just purchased an inexpensive white comforter at Target for $20.00. The bed skirt was $17.00 and $12.oo for the trim I sewed on to embellish it. The white pillow came from Colby Cottage ( little antique shop here) and the headboard of course I made. You can catch a glimpse of the white with black embroidery sheets I got for a bargain at "Big Lots" for $20.00. Who knew?

Okay The headboard:

This was very challenging to make. I used butcher paper to draw a template. I folded it in half to get each side exact. I traced it out on 3/8 inch plywood and cut it out with a jigsaw. Sanded the edges. I cut out the foam with a serrated knife. Then the hard part starts!

This fabric which I thought would be great to work with because it was so thick and sturdy was terrible! For starters it has a pattern which needed to be lined up perfectly but wasn't the first time around or the second; for that matter. (good thing I used my hand stapler ad not my air one) Secondly it has no give so trying to get it around those corners was very hard. It also frays. I seriously hate this fabric.

In all my headboard experiences I found that using an air stapler to make the button holes works great. Then you just hot glue the buttons in. Well this worked great the first few times. Then the fabric just started pulling out. It wouldn't hold. I tried turning down the compression, that didn't work. I tried using a more dense fabric on top of the other fabric, that didn't work. Then I tried hot gluing the denser fabric on top of the other fabric, that worked once. Therefore...back to the old standby drilling a hole through the back, running a needle with thick string through the hole and the foam and the fabric, then through the button, then back through the fabric, foam and find your way back to the hole you drilled and tie it off with a washer. UGH! Did I mention that I hate this fabric? I did this entire project on my kitchen table which I did not notice was dirty. YOu guessed it the headboard got dirty. It was lovely. After all was said and done I HAD to mount it that night. Remember I said it was crooked? It wasn't the only thing! So are the bottom buttons. They drift slowly downward on the right side. Thank God for pillows.

Total headboard price $80.00, the foam was $45.00, fabric and buttons were 20.00 and the plywood was 12.00. Total cost for her bedding 130.00. Day 15 ends with a whopping $210.00. It seems like a lot for a sassy teenagers bed doesn't it.