BookBed Caddies!

Hi friends! Sorry I've been mia for a few days (although compared to how often I used to post, that's pretty good!) :0) I have been busy still making and creating but haven't blogged it.
So...let's see what I can share today.
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Ok, here is what I made for the ends of my kiddos' "new" beds! I saw this here and loved it, that's when my kiddos still had bunk beds. I thought I was going to dismiss the idea BUT I realized it would/will still work on the regular beds. YEA!

They are book caddies! :0) We don't have a lot of space for bookshelves and I thought i was going to do gutter shelves then I decided on little wooden shelves but finally came back to this. I thought it was the easiest way to go and the less damaging to my walls. (at the time I was still trying to figure out~ plain, beadboard, or chair rail!). I think they turned out great!

I don't think I took a lot of photos for the process but I can tell you about it. I did NO sewing... but I will. See, I got my sewing machine out and the foot was gone! I still haven't found it! So I just used witch stitchery but it isn't holding. So I'm going to have to go back and sew. I'll let you know where it's ok in the project to just iron and where it's best to sew...
here we go...

I came across a bedskirt that we no longer use and probably never will. I didn't want to just throw it out though so I decided to use the middle (the white part that goes under the mattress) for these caddies. I also gathered felt, witch stitchery, and bought some dowel rods. Since the rods are 36 inches and that was a great length for the width of the beds, that's what I went with. :0) (I love to keep it simple)
I used the witch stitchery to hem the sides of my material. I didn't need to do the bottom or top because I knew I was going to go around the dowel rods with those. Oh....also, I wanted them to be around 12 inches deep so I cut them out 28 inches by 38 inches. That gave me 2 inches for hemming the sides and 2 inches for top and bottom to wrap over the dowel rods. (You're going to fold the 28 inch piece up/in half to make the pocket).

I used stitch witchery to hem/loop in the dowel rods. I ironed it WITH the dowel rod in place.

Next I cut4 pieces of ribbon. I then ironed/stitch witched those into place. THIS IS WHERE YOU SHOULD SEW INSTEAD. My stitch witchery isN'T supporting the weight of the books on the ribbons. The ribbons are coming off! SO...sew at least that part, even if you have to do it by hand.

Then I cut out letters from felt, some simple shapes too, and just glued them on with tacky glue.

Last I measured and drilled holes for my eye hooks. I screwed in the hooks and tied up the caddies with the ribbons! VOILA!

I love them!
:0)

Thanks for looking!
~robin