Creating Loop Holes in a Duvet Comforter

Well this is my first official post to my blog. How exciting!! It is a rainy fall Sunday here in Manitoba & thus a very "Simple Life has Unfolded". Today in our house we have replaced our pot lights in the bathroom, sealed & put moldings around our front door & hung a very heavy mirror. I won't bore you with those details & hop right into the task I endeavoured.

Have you ever noticed how annoying it is when the duvet slips around in the duvet cover & sometimes you are left with nothing but 2 sheets of thin cover?! That is what I have been struggling with & today I decided to take action & do something about it! We purchased our duvet at IKEA & unfortunately it did not come with the handy loop holes you can use you tie the strings of the cover around....very inconvenient if you as me. Luckily my duvet cover came with the tabs sewn in so we were just missing the loop holes on the actual duvet.

So here is what I did to fix the problem:

Time: 35 minutes
Supplies: Needle, white thread, ribbon, scissors

The Work:
1. Cut 4 pieces of ribbon about 1.5 inches long;
2. Thread & knot your needle;
3. Hand sew a piece of the ribbon on each corner of the duvet; be sure you do it on the same side of the blanket. I sewed on a bit of an angle about an inch into the corner. Make sure to do a nice tight knot on each side of the ribbon;

4. After completing sewing all 4 corners of the blanket grab your duvet cover. Reach in and find the tabs located in a corner of the cover. Pull through the tabs through the loop you created on the duvet & tie a bow. Do this on all 4 corners of the duvet & duvet cover;

5. Grab two corners of the duvet & fluff up your duvet by shaking it out;
6. Sit back and admire a perfectly snug duvet in your duvet cover.

Simple life hacks! I will sleep easy tonight knowing that I will be covered by fluffy duvet goodness all night long.