I LOVE crafting, sewing, making things, etc. I decided a few months ago to make new bedding for Jack. I knew we'd be transitioning him to a toddler bed soon since we found him numerous times hanging over the side of his crib very close to flipping out! He likes Thomas the train, he LOVES Thomas actually! We're not sure where the obsession started, but anytime he sees anything Thomas he starts yelling "Thomas" or "train" and points. So of course I decided to switch out his plane bedding with Thomas the Train. Well, I quickly found out what I could find of Thomas the Train here in the US was quite expensive and I wasn't ready to spend that kind of money on something he would outgrow and lose interest in! So over a few weeks I found Thomas fabric here at Hobby Lobby, waited for their coupons each week, kept an eye on the materials going on sale and slowly bought all the fabric and materials I needed. My goal was to make him a duvet for his existing quilt, pillow & case and Thomas minky lovie-a small blanket he could carry around with him to church and out and about instead of his large star blanket! Here are the finished products!
The pillow...
And the Minky Blanket (kind of a dark picture)...
I made both the pillow and duvet cover to be removed so they could be washed! I used flannel fabric so it would be softer and because it was bedding. Here's what I bought:
*1 yard of the Thomas fabric which cost $2.54 ($5.99 regular but used a coupon)
*1 yard of the red fabric which cost me $2.11 ($4.99 regular but used a coupon) for the duvet
*1 pillow form for $2.11 ($4.99 regular but used a coupon)
*1/2 yard of Thomas fabric cost of $1.27 for the pillow and Thomas lovie!
*1/5 of a yard of the Minky fabric $2.60 (I had on-hand but I'll add it for a true cost)
*2 spools of ribbon $5.00 for both which were half off (I have mostly girly ribbon)
I even have fabric & ribbon left over to make something else with! Total cost for bedding...$15.63 for a duvet cover, pillow & pillow-case and a Minky Lovie! And all these projects were fairly simple to make and didn't take much time at all!
After ll that I decided he needed to be in a toddler bed :) All of our kiddos were out of the crib by the time they were 18 months old, so we never got to the stage where they were trying to get out like Jack and he was scaring me! I had seen
this tutorial on how to make this toddler bed (we had given away our 2 toddler beds when we moved to Wake Forest a few years ago). It looked fairly simple and would use our existing crib mattress and best of all it was cheaper than any toddler bed I had seen (even on craigslist)! Here are the materials we needed...
plywood, 2x2, staple gun and screws...
for the upholstered part, batting and fabric :)
The bed ended up costing under $35 for a custom-made platform padded bed! Had I not wanted to build it the same day I would have waited and bought the fabric (4 yards) when Hobby Lobby had a coupon :) We had the guys at Home Depot cut the wood to our specifications, so all Jody had to do was screw the pieces together and then we upholstered it!
What kind of crafting can you do? Or have you done?
Super easy, looks cute and Jack LOVES it!!!
