A new town and a new apartment called for some new bedding. I found sheets and pillow cases without a problem, but when I started searching for a comforter cover, I was pretty surprised. Even at Target a 100% cotton cover with a decent thread count was somewhere around fifty to a hundred dollars. Now, I think we all know that a comforter cover is two flat sheets sewed together with some buttons, and I bought my 400 count flat sheets for 7.99.
So I figured, I’ll just make my own cover. But here’s where the home decor industry gets tricky. They only like to sell sheet sets. So if you want to make your own cover, you’d need to buy two sets, and by that time you almost should have just paid the artificially inflated cost. Luckily, I found two lovely high-quality silver/gray flat sheets at my local discount store. Home decor industry: 0, Emily: 1. So Friday afternoon, still sweating in our week long heat wave, I got to work on my comforter cover. For a complete tutorial, check out my Hubpage. Otto also helped:
This project had one unintended effect. I learned that I am a true unflinching creature of habit. I probably should have realized this when eating the same lunch for months in a row, or sitting in the same seat in giant lecture halls for the entire semester, but when I really figured it out was when I came home from my bedding shopping trip. With a bag full of purples, tans, grays, and sage greens, I thought to myself “new colors for a new adventure.” And then I realized that these are the exact colors of my sheets in grad school…and undergrad…and high school. *Sigh*
Anyhow, here’s the finished product. I had to photograph it on my folks bed because my bed is currently covered with paper work and things that need to be packed. Throw pillow covers are on Saturday’s agenda.
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