Thursday, 8 March 2012

FINE & DANDY 70’S BEDLINEN

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Now I know for sure that I am not alone in my liking for these rather gaudy 70’s prints that adorned out bedrooms as children and I always grab them when found on my thrifty travels but more often than not they end up in a pile on the shelf whilst I ponder how to use them.

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Obviously with king size living they are usually single or double sized and don’t fit the beds, so that makes all but pillow cases redundant. I have made a few into pinny’s & several cushions but they just don’t seem to sit well in my mind out of the bedroom…

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So I decided that if I couldn’t dress the beds with them then I could make myself some rather fetching night attire….I think it uses the sheets rather well don’t you…..

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5 comments:

  1. I too use the pillowcases and have used the sheets in the past for chickens but I am determined one day to make a lovely quilt from them all :)

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  2. Absolutely love your nightie. Is that your own design or a purchased pattern? I'm using a piece of a similar (blue) sheet for the back of a patchwork/cross stitch cushion at the moment.
    Carol xx

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  3. Looks great, loving the colours in your bedroom.

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  4. oh my -are you taking orders? I would absolutely love one. Could send you contributory sheet bits. Our bed is all the old M+S pink duvet, blue sheet and yellow roses(of course)in all sorts of forms with an orange eiderdown. Fingers crossed you are.

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  5. Oh wow you're trying to bring these back haha. I'm not really a fine of all these crazy colors, but it does give me a warm feeling inside seeing them. My grandmas room was decorated very much like these pictures

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