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I'm in need of some advice!. In my daughter's room there is an twin size iron daybed with a trundle bed underneath. As you would expect, it has decorative iron sides on the head and foot of the bed, and a higher, more decorative side on the long side of the mattress, against the wall. While it will be a couple of years before she is ready for a twin bed, I want to make a quilt for it, since it'll probably take me that long! At any rate, I want to put a dust ruffle under the mattress to hide the trundle underneath and put a quilt on top. I have some wedge-shaped bolster pillows made for a daybed that I can cover with more attractive material to go on top. My question is this: the daybed has an iron bar on that long wall side, so close to the platform that holds the mattress that it is a pain to tuck anything under it when making the bed, not to mention it really hurts my fingers to shove fabric under it. The bedspread I have on it now from it's former life as part of a guest room is an ugly daybed spread, which consists of the top on the matress, and three flaps that cover the front and two ends, split at the corners to allow for the bed's hardware and legs. Along that dreadful back is just a 3 piece designed to be tucked under the bar. If I make a twin size quilt, what do I do? Do I ruin the quilt and my fingers every day trying to tuck it in so it'll be centered on the mattress? Do I make it an odd size? Or, do I make it a regular twin size, but lay it on the mattress off center? The bolster pillows would hide the fact that it isn't tucked under that bar, but wouldn't it hang oddly? Ah, these are the things I think about in the rare quiet moments of life. What would all of you do with this if it were your bed and your potential quilt? And no, getting rid of the bed and going with a regular twin bed isn't really an option after all I paid for it.  The _frame_ is attractive, really.

I would make it a regular twin size, but lay it on the mattress off center and make use of the pillows.  I doubt anyone but you would notice.

can you just double the quilt over while its on the bed during the day? make it double sided and you'd have four sides you could put 'up'. if you planned it well you could have four totally different looks from one quilt. thats as far as my brain has thought today, its only noon here so i might come up with more weird and wonderful ideas as the day wears on, lol. jeanne <winter/summer colours, opposite/different themes using lots of applique perhaps...off for more coffee and see what i can find for lunch

I am in the process of making (designing) for my Daybed with a trundle.  I took a piece of graph paper and measured the bed.  I am going to do like the old quilts for the 4 poster beds, and just make flaps that will go through the ends, and hang over the front and back.  I plan to use 4.5 inch blocks, and mine will look a lot like a cross. To give you an idea, the distance between the back posts is 76 inches, I will have rows 1 thru  3  19 blocks long, rows 4 thru 12 will have 25 blocks each, and then the rows 13 thru 15 will have 19 blocks each.  No tucking, just let the quilt hang over the edges, and the quilt will cover the mattress and be long enough to go just past the dust ruffle.  If you like I can scan my drawing for you and email it to you. Laura in Virginia Quilts, Cats and Longaberger Baskets, it doesn't get any better than that!

Nancy, I'm not sure what to tell you, since I'm still a novice quilter, but I know what you're talking about.  DD's (5 yr old) daybed/trundle bed is being delivered tomorrow.  (I m so excited!)  My Mom is planning a new quilt for DD since she's kind of outgrown (size-wise) her beloved Pooh quilt . Thankfully, Mom doesn't have the quilt cut out, but she does have the material!  I'm interested to see what Mom's going to do with a daybed quilt...and you too!