Slowly, project by project, our master bedroom is making small strides. Getting this room in shape is on my project goal list for the year and it’s one room that really needs it.

I have no idea why it seems to “collect” the miscellaneous decor items, but it does. And every time it collects a bit more, I make it my mission to fix it. Today, I’m sharing an easy DIY ruffled bed skirt. It’s made me so excited to keep moving  forward with the our bedroom. I have so many ideas and plans for the room and I can’t wait to tell you more about them.

In the mean time, I am positively thrilled with this easy project!

Here’s how I made it, and the supplies I used:

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Supplies:

• 5 yards fabric, I used muslin. This is similar.
• Fabric Scissors, these are similar to mine
• Elastic
• Sewing Pins
• Sewing Machine
• Thread

I started with 5 yards of fabric. I used the same muslin fabric that I used on our breakfast nook bench cushions. I basically completely love this fabric and I turn to it time and time again. Plus, it’s cheap!

Then I stretched it out…

And used my fabric scissors to cut down the middle…

Then for the “ruffle” part, I bought elastic at our fabric store! This was such an easy way to achieve the ruffle. More on that later.

Based on our bed, I measured 16″ from the bottom of the fabric, then started pinning the elastic in place…

I kept pinning the elastic in place about every 12″…

Then, I used my sewing machine to run a stitch down the middle of the elastic. While I was pushing the material through my machine, I pulled the elastic very tight….

Once I was done sewing the elastic in place, I instantly had the ruffle. Because the fabric was light enough, the elastic sucked together leaving me with a very lovely and EASY ruffle. If you’ve ever made a ruffle with the “sew a seam at the top, then pull the top thread and push the fabric down the thread” method, then you know ruffles can be very frustrating. Especially if your thread breaks in the middle of your ruffle… I’ve been there!

The elastic was such a time and sanity saver! I will definitely be using this method to create ruffles again!

Once I had enough fabric “ruffled”, I started pushing the extra fabric at the top of the bed skirt underneath our mattress…

Because I left a good 6″ or 7″ of fabric above the ruffle, the bed skirt is secured down by the weight of our mattress…

Plus, having the extra fabric at the top allows me to alter the length of the bed skirt in some areas…

Then, for the corners at the end of the bed, I pulled the skirt straight out…

Then made a small cut at the bottom…

I placed the fabric over the metal bed frame…

Then quickly pulled down on the fabric…

It left me with a lovely frayed edge and I trimmed off the extra strings.

And because I really liked the frayed edge on the fabric, and the fact that I didn’t want to finish the bottom edge, I left it. I really like how it looks!

I’m absolutely thrilled with how it turned out! I’ve had my eye on a similar bed skirt, but I couldn’t bring myself to pay the steep price.

Now, I have one that was easy to make and will be easy to remove if I ever change my mind, which we all know could happen since I have decorating ADD.

Those soft ruffles completely changed our bed…

Now I’m feeling really inspired to complete a few other projects in our bedroom. They might just make it to the top of my list.

Have a great weekend!

P.S.- For all of you non sewers out there, I bet you could make this with hot glue. Instead of sewing the elastic in place, run a bead of hot glue, pull the elastic really tight and push it into the hot glue. It should work. Just don’t burn yourself!