Homemade bed skirt

The Nester is one of my favorite people to steal cute ideas from. I stalk her blog regularly. She has this great philosiphy that says "It doesn't have to be perfect to be beautiful" LOVE that. She does these window "mistreatments" that don't require any sewing...pretty much just hot glue and cute fabric and some upholstery tacks. This totally works for me because I hemmed my choir dress in high school with packing tape (sorry Aunt Gaye!).

I'm in the process of my mistreatments for my bedroom windows but since our poor little bed has been hiding in the basement of our house in Cedar she didn't see much improvements or love. So now that she's right off the kitchen in our Master bedroom (old house didn't have a master bedroom) I want her to look pretty :)

So I gave her a little lift (we would have totally hit our heads on the ceiling if we'd done this before). Now I can store stuff under my bed too.

I didn't want everyone to be able to see all the beautiful boxes under my bed and the books in holding up the middle (I forgot I needed two more lifts) So I decided to make the skirt. I had read all about gathering stitches and other nonsense on the internet for making my bedskirt. I decided I didn't have time for all of that so I took the Nester way out. I didn't sew. I was going to use my staple gun, but I lost her. So I went down to H&R (love that store) and bought me some quilting pins (the big push pins you use to hold a blanket onto quilting boards.

I ran into a problem though, the hard stuff on my box spring is just cardboard, doesn't hold pins well at all! No worries though I just pinned it every foot or so where a board did exist...looked a bit like this.

Oh look there are my raw edges...I hid them, doubled up the fabric by folding it long ways and pinned the raw edge to the bed, the edge on the ground looks great.

And then I just tucked it in: (Sorry my bed needs to go on a diet, the sheets don't cover the whole thing)

And now I have a pretty brown bedskirt. By the way it cost less than $20 with 10 yards of 1.50/yd fabric from Wally world and some push pins.