Today I got the doll’s house out for the girls to play with. They are meant to share of course but according to Miss K, Little L ‘ruins it’. Ah well. As we started to fill it up with things I decided to try and jazz up the ugly furniture that she has. This was given to us and I think it will make a good base for what I’m aiming at. I’m seeing these bits of furniture as armature really.
Not wanting to get the paints out today, and having no nice foam to put inside of any fabric layers I decided to get the sewing machine out and try to make bedding. After having a little think I decided to use those foam dishcloths for mattresses and got going.
The original bed
Miss K helping
I sewed a little cover for the ‘mattresses’, using two dishcloths for height.
I cut one dishcloth in half and folded it length-ways to make a pillow. I then sewed two pillow covers.
I pinched and hand stitched the corners to make it look more genuine.
I then sewed a little sheet and cut out a bedspread (the black and white dots).
She loved it!
I’m fairly sure there is another one of these beds around somewhere but until then we put the second mattress and pillow on the floor of another bedroom and I made a little quilt for it. I’ve never done this sort of sandwiching before but it was fun!
Finished bed
The rough Kitchen table.
Now with tablecloth. I sewed the corners a bit so the tablecloth would stay on.
And so, it was a hit. Miss K played with it for a while after this but when Little L kept ‘getting in the way and putting her feet through the windows’ she asked to put it in her room.
