How to Sew a Simple Duvet Cover

Make your own duvet cover.

Homemade duvet covers are the perfect way to spice up a bedroom without breaking the budget or changing the furniture. Duvet covers can be made very simply from bed sheets or from pieced-together fabric. The best thing about making your own duvet cover is that you can customize it to your needs---you can applique the sheets before sewing them into a cover, embroider them or simply buy sheets with different designs on them, mixing and matching colors you choose.

Things You'll Need

• Measuring tape
• 2 single bed sheets
• Sewing machine
• Cotton thread
• Pins
• Scissors
• Fastening tape

Instructions

1. Measure the size of your single comforter and cut the sheets to this size, adding 1 inch onto the width and 3 1/2 inches onto the length for the hem and seam allowances.

2. Turn the edges of the cut sheet fabric over into a double hem, about 1/2 inch wide, pinning down the hem, then sewing it on the sewing machine. This is done to each sheet separately.

3. Cut the fastening tape 10 inches shorter than the width of the cut sheet fabric, then pin them in the center of one end of the fabric, 1/2 on each side. Pin them on the right side of the fabric, about 1/2 inch from the hemline. Sew both sides of the fastening tape onto the fabric. Again, this is done to each sheet separately.

4. Place both sheets flat, so that their right sides are together, wrong sides facing out. Match the edges, pinning them together.

5. Sew around the entire sides of the sheets, making a 90 degree turn at the fastening tape, and sewing out to the edge of the fabric. Make the turn so that about 1/2 inch of the fastening tape is included in the seam.

6. Sew a double seam parallel to the first, for added strength.

7. Open the fastening tape, and turn the duvet cover right side out, to complete the simple duvet cover.

Tips & Warnings

• This makes a single duvet cover --- use larger sheets or several pieces of material for a larger duvet cover.

References

• Alternative Windows: Duvet Cover Instructions
• HGTV: Drapes And Duvets