Upcycle Duvet Covers
Hand dyed shibori bedding.

Upcycle duvet covers. Upcycling is a great way of creating something new without breaking the bank. They re usually made of cotton linen or other high quality materials requiring easy care. You could make a table runner with matching cloth napkins or chair covers with matching pillow shams for the couch. In addition to these two i also made a pillowcase the easiest way possible tutorial to come and i transformed a brand new but plain queen.
Just take those plastic bangles that you can get from the dollar store for less than a dollar each in most cases and cover them with strips that you cut from your sheets. Bedding particularly duvet covers seems to be pretty popular in the charity shops that i go to seem to. Think of them like a pillowcase only a pillowcase is for a pillow and a duvet cover is for a duvet. Aside from that there are a whole lot of reuses for bedding because at the end of the day it s just flat lengths of fabric and usually 100 cotton or at least cotton heavy fabric at that.
Old duvet covers when they ve served their purpose but are a little too threadbare for the charity shop are a fantastic source of free fabric and can be converted into a range of new items. All you need is a sewing machine and a rainy afternoon. I have almost an obsession about re using old bed sheets and pillow covers perfect for making bias tape and duvet covers coming in wonderful prints and i collect them from everywhere. Glue them in place with fabric glue and you re making your very own fashion statement.
Are you ready for a memorable round up of more than 50 uses for your vintage bed sheets or just plain old bed sheets. Thrifty shops just warm wash them relatives and friends closets. The possibilities are endless with how you can repurpose curtains. Just in case you ve been looking for new ways to upcycle bed sheets too here are 15 of the best ideas we found for sheets of all different states qualities and levels of use.
If you have old duvet covers from when your kids were small this is a quick and easy way to make them useful again and requires only minimum sewing skills. Since they are fabric you can find a lot of ways to reuse them in my 100 projects to upcycle leftover fabric scraps. Do you have a set of plain white sheets that are actually still quite nice so you kept them but you find them pretty boring because you have so many sets of plain white. Rag ruggers often use bed sheets covers.





























