Bed throw curtain fabric

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I have a lovely heavy embroidered type curtain fabric, and was wondering if i could use it to make a cover for the bed somehow, and just have plain white bedding.

It is the somehow i need help from crafty people with?

Of course you could.

You could treat it like a quilt topper and back it with batting and fabric, or just hem the raw edges and use it anyway!

Just like Theas said - absolutely.

Have you thought about what you will do when it needs washing? Could you line it with a king sized sheet or whatever size sheet you need?

In my early 20s I made a bedspread from big remnant of heavy linen curtain fabric. I had to join two bits onto the sides to make it wide enough to reach the floor and I lined it with an old sheet.

This 'dry clean' linen fabric has been washed and tumble dried for 20 odd years, until last year, when it had developed a couple of holes in it so I cut it up and made curtains a spare room and a bean bag cover, in what is now a very relaxed and washed looking linen. Lovely.

If the colours are very strong then I would sandwich it with batting of some sort (even a fleece blanket) and plain sheet so that the colours don't leak onto the white bedding.

...I would also be inclined to was it first so that (a) if it is going to disintegrate it does so before you have put too much effort in and (b) if it is going to shrink it gets it over and done with before you attach it to anything else.

Thanks on the washing hint

And backing it :)

BUT wash your fleece blanket first too- we've had some lovely red and white Xmas ones from primark- surprisingly good quality BUT the red ran into the white for a few washes