So I got three single bed doona covers with a matching pillowcase at a fete when we first got here – fill a bag for $1.  At best they cost me 25cents for each set.  Anyway there is a Thomas one, a Bob the Builder one and a dinosaur pattern one.  I wasnt too sure what to do with them – guessed I would just use them as a doona cover in winter (which is just finishing but never really got cold up this way anyway) with some plain sheets underneath.  The covers would make the theme so to speak.

Then I thought if I got my sewing machine out (note the ‘if’ not ‘when’ hahaha) I could cut them up and make two sheets rather than one doona – two sheets being much more useful in a climate that averages 23 degrees for winter.  Yes thats celsius for those of you non metrics out there.  What a winter!

However just last night on that new program Money for Jam,  super scrooge of the week was showing us how to save money (for two kids) by buying a donna cover with the pattern on both sides, cutting it up and rejoining it with a plain sheet on the back so you got two doona covers.

Now I dont need two doona covers but I was thinking if I get two plain sheets cheap, cut up the doona cover, rejoin the one plain sheet with one part of the doona and hem up the other doona part.  That would give me a plain sheet, a patterned sheet and a doona cover with a patterned side and a plain side plus the pillowcase I started out with making a complete little bed sheet set for the little man.  Bob the Builder and Thomas the Tank Engine being some of his fav. characters – means I gets some great bed sheet sets for him for very little money!  Yay.  Now all I need to do is find a patterned on both sides Anpanman(his fav. Japanese character) doona and I’ll be set.