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You won't lose sleep trying to finish these projects. Just start with a purchased duvet cover and pillowcases, then add a personal touch with our simple techniques.

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These Zs range from 4-1/2 to 13-1/2
inches high.

Get Your Zzzzzs

Pick paint colors to match your room, then stencil purchased or hand-cut letters all over the bedcover. Choose Zs, your monogram, or words such as "sleep" and "bedtime."


What You Need:
  • Duvet cover (we used a queen-size chambray cover with a white edge; plain chambray or other solid-color duvet covers would work equally well. See the page "Make a Duvet Cover" for do-it-yourself instructions)
  • Matching shams
  • Purchased stencils in various sizes (or see below)
  • Masking tape
  • Crafts paints in purple, olive green, and light yellow green
  • Textile medium
  • Stencil brush

Additional materials to make your own stencils:


  • Computer, printer, and paper
  • Crafts knife with a new blade
  • Stencil paper or thick acetate
  • Straightedge

Instructions:

1. Make your stencils. (If you bought stencils, proceed to Step 2.) Select letters in desired fonts on a computer; enlarge and print. Note: Letters with straight lines are easiest to cut out. Place stencil paper or thick acetate atop computer-generated letters on a cutting mat. Cut out the letters with a crafts knife, using a straightedge as a guide.

2. Arrange stencils on duvet cover. Lay duvet cover on a large, flat surface, with the right side up. Tape stencils randomly to top.


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3. Paint. Mix 2 parts crafts paint with 1 part textile medium. Using a stencil brush, fill in stencil letters using a small circular motion (see Photo 1). Let dry; remove stencils.


4. Heat-set according to instructions on textile medium.

5. Paint shams. Center a stencil on each sham, tape in place, then follow Steps 3 and 4.


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