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How to make a duvet cover

Making your own duvet cover is great, it allows you to create exactly what you want how you want it. You can add Velcro inside the duvet cover to prevent the duvet from getting all bunched up inside the cover, you can pick and choose the exact colors and patterns that will got with your bedroom dcor and you will have the satisfactions and joy of knowing you made it yourself.

Making a duvet cover is super easy because you are just joining pieces of fabric together with a straight stitch. However, when I was making my duvet cover I found it was slightly difficult to find the fabric I wanted in the right measurements. An average duvet cover is about 101.5 inches x 90 inches (2.819 yards x 2.5 yards). The problem is that you can buy as many yards of a fabric that you need but often times fabrics only measure about 36- 48 inches in width, not that's not wide enough. You can get as many yards of fabric as you want but you will have to join them together in order to span the full length of the bed. I sure didn't want to have seams running up and down my duvet cover so I found a better alternative, a beautiful rectangle pattern duvet cover. Here is how you can make it:

Pick out 7 coordinating fabrics that you like in the following measurements:
2 yards of fabric #1
2 yards of fabric #2
1 yards of fabric #3
1 yard of fabric #4 (this is your feature fabric so it can be as busy as you want!)
1 yards of fabric #5
2 yards of fabric #6
1 yards of fabric #7

Also get the following:
1 king sized flat sheet that goes with the coordinated fabrics
12 1 inches Velcro squares

Next you will begin cutting your fabric into 15 x 13 inch rectangles. It is best to make a pattern that you can trace so each rectangle is the same. I got a cardboard box and measured the dimensions, then I cut the cardboard rectangle and traced around it for each rectangle I needed to mark and cut.

You will need to measure and cut the following:
16 rectangles of fabric #1
12 rectangles fabric #2
9 rectangles of fabric #3
4 rectangles of fabric #4
8 rectangles of fabric #5
1 102 x 14 inch strip of fabric #6 (you will need to piece the fabrics together from the 2 yards you bought)

Next you will join the rectangles together by placing 2 rectangles right sides together and sewing the edge. Use a inch seam allowance. You can piece the rectangles together in whatever pattern suits you. It is best to work in rows joining the various fabrics together. When you complete 2 rows you can join them together using the same method, place them


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