Comments on: Easiest DIY Bed Skirt with Box Pleats https://nourishandnestle.com/easiest-diy-bed-skirt-with-box-pleats/ Creative Living and Delicious Eating Wed, 05 Nov 2025 14:37:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Lynn https://nourishandnestle.com/easiest-diy-bed-skirt-with-box-pleats/#comment-22242 Wed, 05 Nov 2025 14:37:09 +0000 https://nourishandnestle.com/?p=37719#comment-22242 In reply to YLM.

Oh, she threw you a doozie!

OK, Can you tack the or velcro to the bed frame?

As it relates to the ladder split, I don’t think I’d have both on the same panel. Maybe don’t do the box pleat? I feel both would be very busy.

]]> By: YLM https://nourishandnestle.com/easiest-diy-bed-skirt-with-box-pleats/#comment-22240 Tue, 04 Nov 2025 23:43:31 +0000 https://nourishandnestle.com/?p=37719#comment-22240 My daughter has been asking for a bed skirt for TWO sides of her twin size bunk bed. Complicating is a ladder on one of the long sides, and no box spring to velcro pieces to (I love that hack, though). What do you think about splitting the long side at the point of the ladder, but keeping the pleat at the midpoint of the total length (talk about some tricky math…)? And re: the no box spring problem–I could velcro to the underside of the mattress? but that wouldn’t allow a fitted sheet. Thoughts?

]]> By: Lynn https://nourishandnestle.com/easiest-diy-bed-skirt-with-box-pleats/#comment-21799 Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:14:55 +0000 https://nourishandnestle.com/?p=37719#comment-21799 In reply to Marlene.

Hi Marlene,

The fabric I used was 100% cotton, probably upholstery grade. I think if you stick with upholstery grade cotton, you’d be in good shape. Keep me posted!

]]> By: Marlene https://nourishandnestle.com/easiest-diy-bed-skirt-with-box-pleats/#comment-21798 Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:20:31 +0000 https://nourishandnestle.com/?p=37719#comment-21798 I need some guidance as to what would be the best fabric for a crisp bedskirt. We have moved to an apartment from a large house and are using the area under the bed for storage. I need to use a solid color bedskirt. I have bought and returned several premade skirts and they are flimsy and don’t look neat.

]]> By: Lynn https://nourishandnestle.com/easiest-diy-bed-skirt-with-box-pleats/#comment-21539 Thu, 25 Jul 2024 18:15:23 +0000 https://nourishandnestle.com/?p=37719#comment-21539 In reply to June Land.

Hi June,

Yes, you would still have two pieces for the skirt of the foot of bed. BAsically, the seam of of the two pieces is where you will have the box pleat.

]]> By: June Land https://nourishandnestle.com/easiest-diy-bed-skirt-with-box-pleats/#comment-21538 Mon, 22 Jul 2024 18:12:05 +0000 https://nourishandnestle.com/?p=37719#comment-21538 One more question, I am making bed skirt for a king bed. Is the end piece still in 2 pieces? and I’m a little confused about making the box pleats…..

]]> By: Lynn https://nourishandnestle.com/easiest-diy-bed-skirt-with-box-pleats/#comment-21537 Mon, 22 Jul 2024 18:06:19 +0000 https://nourishandnestle.com/?p=37719#comment-21537 In reply to June Land.

HI June,

I don’t! But I don’t have a good reason why I don’t. I need to get those instructions into a PDF, which I promise I put on my to-do list. But, that’s not going to help you right now. I’m sorry.

Lynn

]]> By: June Land https://nourishandnestle.com/easiest-diy-bed-skirt-with-box-pleats/#comment-21535 Sun, 21 Jul 2024 18:31:23 +0000 https://nourishandnestle.com/?p=37719#comment-21535 Hello, do you have a PDF file with these instructions? Thank you !

]]> By: Lynn https://nourishandnestle.com/easiest-diy-bed-skirt-with-box-pleats/#comment-21306 Mon, 06 May 2024 18:01:09 +0000 https://nourishandnestle.com/?p=37719#comment-21306 In reply to Mit.

THanks so much for the input Mit! I need that kind of feedback. I will go back in and make my explanations more clear, based on your input. Thanks again. I’m going to pop ove rand see it now!

]]> By: Mit https://nourishandnestle.com/easiest-diy-bed-skirt-with-box-pleats/#comment-21304 Mon, 06 May 2024 16:07:42 +0000 https://nourishandnestle.com/?p=37719#comment-21304 Hi Lynn – thanks for posting your instructions. For the most part – they worked well. All “learning opportunities” were my own. However – maybe these observations might help others. I have not sewn in “a really long time” … so first stressful part for me was wondering about how the pattern/weft&weave of the fabric would work for pieces “e” and “f”. Finally I told myself that you were skilled/I didn’t have a patterned fabric – and so I should just have faith that it would all “work out”. (which it did). I did take scotch tape on all my pieces and tape an arrow in the same direction on each piece so that I knew the original orientation of the fabric and the “right sides” from the “insides” (it was really difficult to tell the difference with the fabric I selected). This was super helpful to me as I started sewing. The other thing I realized as I was pinning out my newspaper pattern – was that in this instance we would not be folding the fabric in 1/2 and only cutting out 1/2 of each shape. (I wonder if that’s why Michele is asking about 56 vs 54 inches). For those of us who are near beginners (or just trying to remember) this might be a helpful call out. When it came time to make the box pleats – it took me a few minutes to figure out if I should start the first fold on the “right side” or the seam side. That might also be a helpful notation for those with less experience. The final challenge I ran into (but didn’t realize it until I was all done (and I was sewing at someone else’s house – so was disinclined to run back and forth double-checking measurements) was that on pieces “a” and “b” I should have made my pleats only 3 inches deep (or maybe even 2) because my skirt is about 3 inches short. But OVER ALL – I love how it turned out. Thank you thank you.

I posted 2 pics on my old blog – if you want to see the outcome

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