Easy Tailored Bed Skirt

I just whipped up this super easy, super cheap tailored bed skirt. 

 
I was tired of looking at all of this stuff peeking out from under the bed.


Here’s a close up just in case you didn’t notice all of the crap important stuff shoved under the bed.  This is hubby’s side of the bed, and in his defense, we have really small closets, so lots of things get stored under the bed. 


I found these window panels at Target on clearance.  They rang up at $1.98 each so I bought three.  They are the perfect, neutral woven fabric.
Here’s how I did it:
  
I cut the panels lengthwise into two 20” by 63” pieces.  I zig zag stitched along the raw edge since they seemed to be unraveling like crazy.  Then I joined them together along the short edge so I had a piece about 20” wide by 124” long.   
 
 
Since the long edge was already hemmed, I didn’t have to hem the edge.  
 
I trimmed off both edges so the ends would be nice and straight.   Then I measured the side of my bed, added 1” for each side hem, and 8” for each pleat, and cut my long fabric piece to this length.  I sewed a 1” hem on each side edge.


This is a really badly drawn diagram of the pleat.  Because the pleat folds back on itself, each 2” pleat adds 8” to the required measurement.  I pressed my pleat and then stitched across the top raw edges to hold it in place.

 
I pinned it directly to my box spring using safety pins.  Couldn’t have been easier.
 
Now everything is hidden away.  So much better!

Looking for more inspiration?  Check out  Show and Tell at Blue Cricket Design, We did it Wednesday at Sew Much Ado, Transformation Thursday at The Shabby Chic Cottage, Get Your Craft on at Life as Lori, Thrifty Thursday at Bloggeritaville, Show and Tell at My Romantic Home, Victory of the Week at Design-Aholic, Frugalicious Friday at Finding Fabulous, Funky Junk’s Saturday Nite Special, Weekend Wrap-up at Tatertots and Jello, and Craft Schooling Sunday at Creative Jewish Mom.