The Epic Duvet Adventure - Part One - The Supplies
Welcome to my Epic Duvet Adventure. As I mentioned in this post, I am making my daughter a duvet cover inspired by a $248 (twin size) Anthropologie duvet. Here are all of the supplies I bought (and that you might need if you want to embark on a similar adventure of your own):
1. Jersey cotton fabric - I chose this hot pink jersey fabric from Hobby Lobby. It's 59" wide and 100% cotton. Here's the long-winded explanation of how I figured out how much fabric to buy: J's duvet is composed of thirty-five squares that are each 12" (5 wide x 7 long), so I knew that I would need thirty-five 18" fabric squares for the top of the duvet. 59"/18" = 3.2, so you can get 3 squares across with the fabric width. 7 x 18" = 126"; 126"/12 = 10.5'; 10.5/3 = 3.5 yards. So, based on my math, I bought 4 yards of the material.
**Important lesson learned: 100% cotton jersey shrinks when you wash it. A lot. So, I wound up going and buying two more yards.**
The fabric was $6.99/yard and I used a 40% off coupon = $25.16
2. Embroidery thread - I didn't know how much of this I would need to make the rosettes/knots, so I bought 4 skeins. $.40/each x 4 = $1.60
3. Thread - I bought 2 spools. $3.69 x 2 = $7.38
I had needles already, so I didn't need to buy any, but that's an important piece since you have to hand sew the rosettes/knots. I also already had a sewing machine at my disposal.
Now, if you wanted to make the duvet as similar as possible to the Anthro one, those would be all of the materials you would need. Apparently because I am a glutton for punishment, I wanted to further customize J's duvet. I liked all of the gathering that comes from the rosettes/knots, but I wasn't 100% in love with the look. So, I thought to myself, "how can I possibly make this project even more time consuming and frustrating?" Answer: make chiffon roses for the center of each square to sit on top of the rosettes/knots.
So, for that you will also need:
4. Poly-chiffon fabric - I chose this light pink chiffon from Hobby Lobby. I wanted the strips for my roses to be 2.5" wide (and I had to make 35 of them), so I bought 2.5 yards of this.
The fabric was $4.99/yard and I used a 40% off coupon = $7.49
**Important note: this particular material HAS to have some poly or something else that will melt when exposed to heat/flame (more on this in a later post on construction).**
So far the total spent for the duvet: $41.63
That's all for now--my next post will be all about the prep work and getting all of the pieces ready for assembly!
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