Tips on Sewing Duvet Covers
One of the most important linen items in your bedroom is duvet covers. The duvet is protected from dirt and dust by these covers. It is preferable to change the duvet covers in the weekend for which you require 2 to 3 covers on hand. The duvet covers can be made easily with an attractive look. Knowledge on sewing straight seams is all that you require for making duvet covers. This cover will make an old duvet look new whereas it will protect the new duvet.
Sewing Duvet Cover
Items and Materials Requirement
The items and materials required are buttons, snap tapes, dressmaker’s measuring tapes, dressmaker pins, bed sheets, fabric-marking pens, dressmaker shears, fabrics, irons, ironing boards, sewing machine needles, sewing machine, yardsticks and threads.
Cover Fabric Selection
• Measure the duvet width and length
• Washable lightweight linens are ideal choice for duvet fabric
• The cloth width for the cover of the duvet must be 54” wide and two lengths are required. The cloth must be 5” more than actual measurements.
• Take two cloths of equal lengths for the back cover and the dimension should be 3” more than actual requirement.
• The width of a duvet is normally 104” and hence you should choose the fabric of 54” width. For wider duvet add extra fabric.
• Ensure that the extra fabric match with the main fabric. Small prints are ideal since they are uniform.
• Before you stitch the duvet, the fabric has to be washed.
Sewing the duvet Cover
• Fold the fabric of the front panel lengthwise with wrong sides on top; iron this cloth so that a crease is formed in the middle and unfold it. Repeat this for back panels.
• Mark a line along the crease using a yardstick and marking pen and cut along this line using dressmaker shears. You will get 6 pieces for sewing.
• Pin one front panel to a side of another front panel uncut edge. Ensure that the fabric sides are proper.
• After sewing the edges of the fabric you should open the seam. The seam should be half an inch wide.
• Repeat this process for all the cut fabric pieces including the extra ones if required.
• Measure the dimensions of both portions of front and back covers. The panel size must be 2” more than the duvet size.
• Place front panel fabric on the back panel fabric and ensure that their right sides are together. Pin them.
• Sew with a seam of half an inch and leave the seams open.
• Stitch the cut edges of the bottom cover by folding half an inch.
• Snap closures are to be attached to the cover opening.
• Attach the ball portions as required.
