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2. I sewed one once. You put in two rows of baste stitch 5/8th and 1 inch from the top of a long piece

Tue Aug 28, 2012, 07:57 PM

Aug 2012

of cotton (measured so it will just touch the floor). Then you pull on one of those strings to create the gathers in the material. They you put sticky velcro on the inside of the side beam of the bed every 7 inches or so, for 3 inches . Sew the other side of the velcro to the gathers of the ruffle in the exact same 7 - 3 inch pattern. Really cheap. Works. And you can take it off and wash it. I think I was so cheap I actually used a cotton drop cloth for house painting as my material.

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Solved the dust ruffle problem. [View all] dixiegrrrrl Aug 2012 OP

I have come to loathe dust ruffles. Curmudgeoness Aug 2012 #1

I sewed one once. You put in two rows of baste stitch 5/8th and 1 inch from the top of a long piece applegrove Aug 2012 #2

I did this velcro trick once...it worked great. That was on a regular non antique bed that could... northoftheborder Aug 2012 #4

I had a trunk at the end of my bed. So I didn't put the velcro ruffle there. I had the velcro applegrove Aug 2012 #5

Brilliant! Well done. cbayer Aug 2012 #3

Ty.. dixiegrrrrl Aug 2012 #6

So am I, NOW, but I remember wearing some of them!!! Also the wall-paper was atrocious. northoftheborder Sep 2012 #7

"brown wood wall paneling. " dixiegrrrrl Sep 2012 #8

We did the same thing- works just fine we can do it Sep 2012 #9