I discovered something about myself yesterday.....I have more patience than I thought I had!! Reason being --- I was able to put together a "Queen" sized bed for dollhouse people! My daughter and I recently checked out
Tiny Treasures - Amazing Miniatures You Can Make (American Girl Library), and I promised her we would make some of the projects together this week for her dollhouse. I envisioned making the simple braided rug out of embroidery floss, but my daughter wanted a little more complicated project (this bed) to be the first project.
Have to admit it was a lot of fun to make,and we are both MORE THAN PLEASED with the way it turned out!
Here's a view from above with the bed spread open so you can see the flat bottom sheet underneath.
A view of her Melissa and Doug dollhouse people laying on top the bed so you can see it's more than adequate!
While I can't tell you exactly how I made everything (it's not my original idea, but from a copyrighted book).... I will list the supplies I used. I didn't follow the book exactly, but based my ideas on the twin bed they had pictured.
Supplies used:
- Cereal box (base of bed)
- White handkerchief -(sheet/long pillow)
- Batting (inside pillows)
- Sour Cream lid (headboard)
- Bits of leftover lace (edging on lg. pillow/bedspread)
- Blue rick-rack - along base of bed
- Two coordinating (blue) material scraps (bedspread/sq. pillows/ headboard)
- Singer Pixie Sewing Machine
- Glue Gun
Just for fun here's a link to
Family Fun and a page they have about recycling things to make dollhouse furniture.
BTW - we did do the braided rug ....here's what it looks like next to the bed
Supplies used on the rug:
- Dk. Blue/Lt. Blue/White Embroidery floss
- Felt
- Hot Glue