I sewed a blanket sheet thingy

for xmas i made my dad a blanket sheet thingy. see, he's running cold and mom is running warm. he wants more blankets on the bed, she wants less. they tried just putting blankets on his half, but when he rolls around in his sleep, they just fall off. either off the bed, or off him onto my mom. my mom was complaining about not being able to make blankets stay on his side of the bed, so i came up with the idea to sew half a blanket to half a sheet. then it would be tucked in place all the way across the bed, and unlikely to become dislodged. mom thought it sounded like a good idea, so i made it.

but there was an extra wrinkle. my dad is allergic to dogs. and my house is home Puppy and Molly, and thus also home to lots of dog fur. so i had nowhere i could lay this out flat to work on it without getting dog fur on it.

i resorted to using a clothing rack thing i hang clothes on to dry, and draped everything over that. it was metal, and appeared dog fur free.

i bought a twin size comforter and twin size sheet. my parents bed is queen size, not king size, so i had to cut the comforter down to fit (a king size bed is the size of two twin size mattresses). i looked up on the internet what the measurements of a queen size mattress was, and what the measurements of queen size blankets and flat sheets were. according to those measurements, i then cut off a foot of extra comforter.


sewing the edge closed on the comforter was not fun. once i cut the extra piece off, i then had to go and cut an extra inch off of the comforter batting in order to have enough material to be able to sew the edge closed. but it was just an edge, and easy enough to wrangle thru the sewing machine. for the sheet, i didnt cut off the extra foot off. i figured its thin enough, i can just overlap the extra. for future reference, it would have been easier if i'd just cut it off tho. i then needed to lay out and line up the edges, without exposing anything to dog fur. so over the rack everything went.


there was a lot of crouching and ducking under to get everything lined up and overlapping the same amount and then pinned right.


then wrangling the whole thing thru the sewing machine. it was a challenge, sewing down the middle with all the comforter on one side and all the sheet on the other.


i had to roll up the sheet to make it small enough to be out of the way under the machine arm.


here is a picture of it on their bed that dad took for me. its kinda hard to see the seam with both the comforter and the sheet being navy blue. so my dad folded down the edge to show the more visible seam on the back of the comforter


its apparently working quite well for them, especially with these extra cold days we've been having this winter.