Doonas and Selvedges (Copy)

Hi everyone, welcome back!

There isn’t any super exciting quilting happening in my room today, rather I did a small mending job and found a good use for some of my leftover selvedge strips.

But first a Lily quilt update, I now have 7 of the 22 blocks I need for the the outer border done. So it is slowly progressing, but I really do need to get some more work done on it. Especially as little Lily has now been born! I’m making a single bed quilt for her, not a little cot one, so she won’t need it for some time yet, it would be nice to have it finished before she gets too big though. Kaila has almost finished her quilt, she just has to attach the binding now, however with little Lily’s arrival that has been put on hold.

Here is block number 7, another Dutchman’s Puzzle block. I photographed the steps of the first Dutchman’s Puzzle block and filmed this second one and so should hopefully have tutorials out on making them as well as the Flying Geese blocks units they are made of both here on the blog and also on my YouTube channel in the not too distant future.

So, getting back to today’s projects, my doona cover has needed the bottom opening to be fixed for some time now, however I have been putting it off for more interesting sewing instead. Nothing major, the seam just ripped opened a bit and so it was a very quick and easy fix. However even before the seam ripped I have had a constant issue of my doona coming out of its cover, which is very frustrating. I have quite a heavy wool doona and a bed with no foot board and so the doona is forever sliding down the end of the bed, leaving the cover behind, or just bunching up at the end of the cover.

Now, I do not enjoy making the bed (does anyone?), and I especially dislike putting covers on doonas and so I needed a solution. At first I was thinking of putting some snaps in to hold the cover in place, however I didn’t particularly like the idea of hard snaps at the top of my doona where I’m trying to sleep. Then I thought of putting in some ties instead which would be less annoying than hard snaps and be another good use for some of my selvedge scraps that I have been collecting for staking plants in my veggie patch. So I got 3 of my selvedge strips, cut them in half and attached them to the top end of my doona and the inside of the cover to tie my cover on and hopefully solve my naked doona problem.

Well that’s it for today, hopefully my ties will do their job and keep my doona cover in place. Do you have any other fun ways to use your selvedge pieces?

Till next time,

Keep on Stitching!