Comments on: Calico Corners custom-made bedspread http://retrorenovation.com/2009/10/20/calico-corners-custom-made-bedspreads/ A place for your postwar 40s 50s 60s and 70s style kitchens, bathrooms and mid century modern home aesthetic. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:50:23 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: nina462 http://retrorenovation.com/2009/10/20/calico-corners-custom-made-bedspreads/comment-page-1/#comment-42597 nina462 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:03:15 +0000 http://retrorenovation.com/?p=18404#comment-42597 My bedroom linen set is a navy blue velvet from Steinmart. It came in wine & sage green also. I bought it a few years ago...but it's very retro & lush. Bedskirt & 2 pillows included. It's a quilted velvet. (My cat loves it too). My bedroom linen set is a navy blue velvet from Steinmart. It came in wine & sage green also. I bought it a few years ago…but it’s very retro & lush. Bedskirt & 2 pillows included. It’s a quilted velvet. (My cat loves it too).

]]> By: Anita http://retrorenovation.com/2009/10/20/calico-corners-custom-made-bedspreads/comment-page-1/#comment-42477 Anita Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:12:18 +0000 http://retrorenovation.com/?p=18404#comment-42477 Making your own beadspread this style is not hard for even pretty basic sewing skill levels, even with the welting (not the quilting - don't try that on your home machine). The hardest part is finding a space in the house to lay the fabric out flat so you can get it cut, there are generally several feline assistants that materialize and assume the position of ensuring that the fabric does not escape the forces of gravity. Anyway, I made one very similar to this for our 1940s guest room, and another for our Indiana Jones guest room. I too prefer the look over today's dust ruffle style. Making your own beadspread this style is not hard for even pretty basic sewing skill levels, even with the welting (not the quilting – don’t try that on your home machine). The hardest part is finding a space in the house to lay the fabric out flat so you can get it cut, there are generally several feline assistants that materialize and assume the position of ensuring that the fabric does not escape the forces of gravity. Anyway, I made one very similar to this for our 1940s guest room, and another for our Indiana Jones guest room. I too prefer the look over today’s dust ruffle style.

]]> By: dolores http://retrorenovation.com/2009/10/20/calico-corners-custom-made-bedspreads/comment-page-1/#comment-42475 dolores Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:20:55 +0000 http://retrorenovation.com/?p=18404#comment-42475 I love, love Calico Corners! Although their fabric prices can be pretty expensive, you can always find beautiful material in their sale bins. I love, love Calico Corners! Although their fabric prices can be pretty expensive, you can always find beautiful material in their sale bins.

]]> By: MrsErinD http://retrorenovation.com/2009/10/20/calico-corners-custom-made-bedspreads/comment-page-1/#comment-42471 MrsErinD Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:03:47 +0000 http://retrorenovation.com/?p=18404#comment-42471 We have an awesome although a little beat up, bedspread we are using now from my Grandparents from late 50s I think, it's in that box style and quilted with welting in light blue, it's so cool, but our stupid mattress and bed is so high that it is several inches off the floor, I hope we can remedy that sometime because I love bedspreads and don't like dust ruffles, I like a bedspread pulled up over the pillow too, you know hotel style, that's how they used to do it, with maybe a cute round accent pillow, not the pillow shams and tons of pillows we do today, I like the old look better. That is awesome Pam for anyone who has the moola to do it, especially with matching pinch pleats!! :O) We have an awesome although a little beat up, bedspread we are using now from my Grandparents from late 50s I think, it’s in that box style and quilted with welting in light blue, it’s so cool, but our stupid mattress and bed is so high that it is several inches off the floor, I hope we can remedy that sometime because I love bedspreads and don’t like dust ruffles, I like a bedspread pulled up over the pillow too, you know hotel style, that’s how they used to do it, with maybe a cute round accent pillow, not the pillow shams and tons of pillows we do today, I like the old look better.

That is awesome Pam for anyone who has the moola to do it, especially with matching pinch pleats!! :O)

]]> By: pam kueber http://retrorenovation.com/2009/10/20/calico-corners-custom-made-bedspreads/comment-page-1/#comment-42467 pam kueber Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:09:07 +0000 http://retrorenovation.com/?p=18404#comment-42467 Thank you, Frank, I fixed it. Guess you know now that I'm checking out Macy's too! Thank you, Frank, I fixed it. Guess you know now that I’m checking out Macy’s too!

]]> By: Frank http://retrorenovation.com/2009/10/20/calico-corners-custom-made-bedspreads/comment-page-1/#comment-42466 Frank Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:48:48 +0000 http://retrorenovation.com/?p=18404#comment-42466 Psst . . that link is to Macy's. Psst . . that link is to Macy’s.

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