Making a Ruffled Bedskirt Tablecloth

I have been just adoring all the ruffled tablecloths I have seen in Blogland made out of bedskirts. The first one I saw was from Courtney at French Country Cottage here. Then inspired by her Janae (my daughter) did one for herself here. Then I saw this one that Brenda at Shabby Cats and Roses did here and I knew I really wanted to make one out of a bedskirt myself! I loved how Brenda made it the shape of her table, which is the same shape as my table. Of course, Overstock.com was out of the white at the time. Then one evening while checking my e-mail Brenda e-mailed me they were back in at Overstock. Janae was over here visiting and I let her know, and as fast as her hands could type she was ordering one one for me, one for her guest bedroom (what a concept to actually use it on a bed!) and an extra one for herself to do a future ruffled project. As Janae was ordering these Chantel was wanting Janae to do something for her..and Janae said, "Not right now this is an emergency" LOL

Here is how I did it. Now, some of these bedskirts have come with a silky top to them, but mine came with that paper like fabric on the top. No big deal I wasn't going to use it anyway. Remember, bedskirts are 3 sided so even if your table is the perfect twin bed size you will be missing one side. Janae ordered me a queen size and we figured I would have some left so maybe another small project. I ended up with about 2 feet of ruffles left.  I got out a lovely embossed sheet that I  got at Thrift City for $1.15. Thank God for thrift shops. Really, I'm serious, don't know what I would do without them.

I laid the sheet on the table and then I cut around the shape of the table. Leaving about an inch or so all the way around.

Then I cut the inside out of the bedskirt. I left some of the inner fabric on it thinking I would use it to attach to the top part of the tablecloth but the fabric was so cheap I ended up sewing directly to the ruffled part and cutting off any of that paper like fabric. The ruffles are a cotton/polyester fabric.

In no time I had this beautiful fitted ruffled tablecloth. I love it!

Thanks so much to everyone who inspired me. This beautiful tablecloth fits right in with my self proclaimed 2012 year of the ruffle theme..and it was so easy. Now I just need to get busy and make the other 3 ruffled chair covers--they are much more work than this tablecloth was!

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