Kissing Pleat/Pintuck Duvet DIY

That looks AWESOME! I think I may attempt to do it on a pillow cover or something small before I'm brave enough to do it on bedding. I LOVE IT!!!

This is beautiful Tigan! It just might be my next big project! :) but I have a king bed...what is worse it is already an oversized king and so I have issues trying to find anything that will actually cover the dang thing. this would take me forever I think...but it would be so worth it!

I have a king bed too! Do you have any ideas for me and Selina?

I do have a question about the green dots. First diagram shows the green dot in the middle of each square, and second diagram shows green dots at the outside corners of each square. I assume you are creating the pin tucks in the middle of each square, and not at the outside corners; otherwise there would be no need to draw the second square, yes? I was thinking about the king-size dilemmas, and would buy a third sheet to cut up and add borders on the outside of the two king-size sheets. (Cut off hems, first, of course, and do a flat-felled seam.)

I'm so impressed with your crafty, creative skills. The duvet is beautiful.

YOU are AMAZING!

I'm doing the same project but I can't figure out what you're doing with the buttons. I get the measuring and the template and the straight stich, but then I'm lost. HELP ME! And are your buttons flat, or like little balls? They look like balls.

They are cloth shank buttons. So like the satin kind you would see on the back of a wedding dress. The shank or the part you string the thread through is cloth so as to not cause any further tension on the fabric. I hope this answers your question.

Amy, also I got my buttons off of ebay. It took me a while to find them in the right blue. I think I paid $24.00 for a 144 buttons.

One more question after the comment that it is beautiful..does the fabric square go on the underside, then sew the button on the top? That is what I think I am reading/seeing.

Do you remember about how long it took?

Susie Q: Yes the fabric square goes on the underside of the fabric and then the button on top. It took about 2 hours to sew all the little pleats but I had to hand sew on all the buttons which probably took another 4 hours. Good Luck!

I'm looking forward to trying this. I have a queen-sized down comforter in need of a duvet.

I was wondering i'm doing one for a queen sized bed using a standard king sized sheet so how far in should i do the boarder so that its on the top of the bed but not hanging down? im not sure how to figure that out. oh and amazing duvet by the way.

I'm not quite sure I understand what you are saying but if you don't want the duvet to hang over the edges at all I would suggest using a queen size sheet. Other wise you will get fabric that hangs over the edge. Does this answer the question? If not write me again and I'll try my best. :)

Great tutorial, thanks! Just wondering where you got your duvet cover from?

I got it online somewhere for a deep discount. You know it's been sometime so I can't quite remember where.

Hi Tigan,

This is an awesome tutorial. I had to comment because I have just started a blog myself and recently fell in love with the pleated duvet at Western Elm and thought it would be a great project for my blog... and then I came across your page!

Anyway, good luck on Tigan Ink - I love your writing and I look forward to seeing more of your projects.

Cheers to 2012!

Hi Tigan,

I should have asked this yesterday, but how does it hold up after washing? We seem to have difficulty with even just a flat duvet coming out of the dryer all wrinkled, and that was a concern I had about purchasing the West Elm version. Has this been an issue at all with this pleated version?

I washed mine once right after I made it to remove the left over chalk lines. I made sure to pull it out of the dryer as soon as the cycle was done to avoid wrinkling and I didn't have any problems. The pictures shown in this post were after it had been washed once. However since then I have had it dry cleaned purely because my fabric specifically says it should be dry cleaned. So it always comes back nice and pressed. The thing about the pin tucks that I love is the structure of the technique, which kind of lends it's self to a little wrinkling. Hope that helps.

We had exactly the same problems with the West Elm duvet. Great tutorial. Where did the yellow rose pillow came from? It's so pretty!

Thanks so much for sharing...I have got to do this. Lori

It's a Rubie Green fabric.

Hi i'm still a little confused. Does the small square of fabric go under the pleat or underside of the duvet? If just under pleat wouldn't the square show? how big was your square? sorry for the nit picky questions but I am so desperate to make this ASAP..:)

The fabric goes on the underside of the duvet to re-enforce the stitching.

Your tutorial is great. I fell in love with this bedding the first time I saw it on the West Elm website and was looking for a tutorial. I'm making this as a crib blanket for my nursery, partly because I love it for a baby room, and partly because i'd like to start on a smaller project before I tackle my king bed. Would you use the same size grid for a baby blanket (size 36"x48") or would you make them smaller?

Probably not, I think I would make then 5x5 squares instead of 10x10. Good luck!

you're doing all this (the pin tucks) on the top side of the fabric, yes?

This turned out gorgeous - great job! I bought the same one from West Elm and the exact same thing happened to me - not to mention that I don't think the seamstresses of the duvet took into account that when they did the pintuck, it made the overall size smaller (because mine was just a little shorter than how I would like it to hang. Like the previous poster, I too would like to make a crib blanket like yours for my soon to arrive little girl. Thank you for the tutorial!! ~ Jennifer

So that's how you create this particular design / style for bedding / duvet. Thanks! Always love learning from DIYers.