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Bunk Bed Fitted Quilt DIY

• By Joan
• April 7, 2021
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Bunk Bed Fitted Quilt

I have one more follow up to my bunk bed post.  You may remember my kids built me a set of bunk beds for my birthday last year.  With new grandbabies it was the perfect addition to a small beach house loft room.  

This tiny little room can now house 4 people…there is a pull out bed underneath the lower bunk and another twin bed on the opposite side of the room.

When you last saw the bunk beds back in October this is how we left them.  We still needed to move the ceiling fan so little ones wouldn’t get their heads chopped off and the beds still needed comforters.  These are just white sheets.

On the two original twin beds in the room there were 2 matching blue striped quilts.  They were both in great shape but  they were way too big for the twin sized mattresses.  They draped over the bed and puddled on the floor against the wall.  I believe they were made for  queen sized beds.

We never bothered to replace the quilts because they were in great shape and this being a guest room, the beds were only used a few weeks out  of the year.

Now that the beds are bunk beds, there is no place for the extra fabric to go.  Even tucking a little fabric in on a bunk bed is quite a chore.

Was there such a thing as a fitted quilt or comforter for a bunk bed.  You know, just like a fitted sheet but only the bottom 2 corners of the  comforter would be fitted, and the sides would be trimmed to just cover the mattress, no tucking required.

Apparently I’m not making up a brand new product, I did find a great assortment of such a product here.  They call them bunk bed huggers and they range in price from $120 – $150.

At that price, you know I have to make my own and I had just the quilts to use.

Measure your twin mattress plus the sides then add on an extra 2″ to give yourself plenty of fabric for hemming and just a little extra.  My measurement was about 56″, but yours may be more or less depending on the thickness of your mattresses.

From the leftovers from the two quilts I had enough fabric to make a third quilt for the third bed in the room, the one that is not a bunkbed.  The pullout bed beneath the bunk beds didn’t need a cover since it’s hidden all the time.

I’ll start with the non-fitted quilt first to show you my special seam.  This seam is actually one I learned in high school, a french seam in which all the frayed edges are enclosed within the seam.

Lay your 2 pieces together with wrong sides together.  

Sew the two pieces together, I’m using a 1/4″ seam allowance.

You’re left with the rough edges on the right side of the fabric.  

Trim the seam allowance until it is at least 1/4″ or smaller. Normally you would press your seam until it lies flat, but that is not going to happen with a quilt.

Turn the fabric now with right sides together and you’re going to sew along the same seam.

Since this is a quilt the seam will be a little thick so use a zipper foot if you have one to get the seam as close to the edge as possible.

What you’re doing in enclosing all of the first seam inside the second so there are no loose ends.

**Make sure you watch this Youtube video if my description made absolutely no sense.

This is the non- bunk bed quilt, the new seam is on the dark blue portion of the stripe.

And now for the fitted bunk bed quilts.  Hem the side of the quilt that was cut.

Drape your comforter or quilt over your twin bed adjusting the comforter until the overhang on the sides of the bed are equal to the overhang on the end of the bed.  If you measured correctly, you should have left enough of the comforter to cover the top mattress plus another inch.

Pin the quilt from where you want your corner to begin all the way to the bottom.

The line you just pinned will be your sewing line.  This will be another french seam, so with wrong sides together sew along the entire pin line.

Trim off the excess fabric.

Turn your quilt inside out and with right sides together sew along the same seam making sure the entire seam that you just sewed is within the new seam allowance..

When you turn your comforter right side out again, the corner is complete.

This is the inside of the seam, there is no fabric to fray.

The new fitted comforters fit great on the built in bunk beds.

And on the other side of the room, the leftover quilt scraps

Make sure you go back to this post and this post to find all the bunkbed DIY’s.

Until next time, stay inspired.

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