Faux Button Tucked Headboard

When couples decided to move in together they bring a lot of the stuff from their past into the relationship. This baggage from the past can cause many problems. There is a lot give and take and some merging to do  marry someone who has been living alone, moving from city to city for the past 12 years. I was ready to deal with his collections, his golf stuff and his music, but I was not prepared for the mattress. Dave had just purchase the mattress the year before, and mine was pushing 15 years old. His was a queen, mine was only a full, so we settled on his. 

To make it our bed we went out and bought a beautiful four poster bed. Almost immediately there were problems. It was lumpy, it made a great deal of noise, and every-time one of us moved the other felt everything. To top it all off, the bed pretty high profile. Dave is not a tall man and had to almost do a running leap to get into it. Right from the start I knew this mattress was bad but we struggle through with it for 10 years. 

The bed with the old mattress

We decide to purchase a new mattress! Before it arrived I decided I wanted new bedding to go with it. I've been salivating over all white bedding, painted furniture and quilted headboards on Pinterest for months. I love my the wood finish on the bed, so I was am not willing to commit to painting it or stapling fabric to it. I decided to fake ahead board. I have rediscovered a great place to by fabric, Osgood Textiles in West Springfield, MA. I spent hours trying to find color and patterns to go with my existing paint and curtains.

 The first thing I did was create a paper pattern. I taped newspaper on the wall behind the bed and traced it. 

 Next I made a pattern out of muslin, and traced it onto the fabric. After cutting it out I pinned it and draped it 

over the bed.

When I was happy with the seem allowances I cut out 2 pieces of fabric using my muslin pattern. I next used the pattern to cut out 1 piece of batting.

 I sandwiched the muslin, fabric and batting together and sewed them.  The sandwiched fabric was fabric, batting, muslin, fabric. I left the bottom open. I cut all the curved edges for turning and pressed the seem back. 

I laid the finish piece flat and used buttons from my collection to button tuck the fabric. Make sure you only go throw the first 3 sandwich layers. I tied ribbon to the corners to secure it to the bed.

Now remember when I said the bed had a high profile, well I should have taken that into consideration before I made the cover. The new mattress is a good 6 inches higher than the old one. When we put on the new mattress all the new pillow and bedding it totally hid everything I did. Oh well, I know its there.

Fluffy new mattress