Doll beds

Wednesday was a cold rainy day so I dropped M off at school and then headed to Hobby Lobby. My in laws got me a very very very nice sewing machine for Christmas and I have been wanting to sit down and use it finally!  I spent about 2 hours walking through the store childless (yay me!) because Mr. was off and was home with "the littles" (we are trying to stop calling them "the babies"). I saw that the satin fabric was only 2.99 a yard and that's when the inspiration hit me, batman and robin capes for the boys! As I was googling on my phone "what color is robin's cape?"...it is yellow just in case you ever need to know...I then realized the girls needed something too. If there is one thing I have learned with multiples is if you do for one you must do for all. Mr. had made these adorable doll beds for the girls American girl doll Bitty babies for Christmas and I still needed to make the bedding. I found some adorable fabric and trim in two different colors so that way they were a little different. here is the final result-

Sorry the picture is blurry. I used my Iphone since Nick had my SLR camera at work with him.

I found the plans on this amazing website, http://ana-white.com/2010/11/doll-farmhouse-bed

The website has very simple and easy projects for all kinds of things. Nick finished both beds in about a hour. He spent $27 at home depot for all the materials he needed for BOTH beds. I spent about $20 on fabric, thread, and trim for both blankets and pillows. Not bad in comparison to what it would of cost to order to beds from American Girl.

For the blankets all you need is 2 different fabrics 1/2 yard each

1 yard of trim

I used a sewing machine but I am sure you could hand sew it too if you needed to. It took me about 15 minutes to do the whole blanket with my machine

I swear it was this easy!

So I turned the fabric inside out and i tucked the trim in the middle, pinned it all, and then sewed the edges.

So when you turn it around it looks like this! This isn't actually the one I had sewn it is just some left over fabric and trim that I used for these pictures since I didn't think about taking pictures as I was going. The trim on the ones I made went the entire length of the blanket on 3 sides.

I made all the pillows with left over fabric. You can make the blankets as long or as short as you want them. I made mine a little long so I could fold over the top side when it was laying on the bed and I still had enough left over for pillows!

Let me know if you have any questions!

                                                          This picture is a little better