Where can I get flat sheets to fit my son's bed?

[Willow2]

Just moved ds to first bed (why didn't I do it sooner? He now wakes up and plays happily for ages before demanding my presence) - problem is I can't find bottom sheets (flat or fitted) to fit. The mattress is 30" by 60" - so bigger than a cot bed but much smaller than a single. Single bed sheets just swamp it. Ideally want bright colours as his room looks like an explosion in a paint factory. Anyone got any ideas? John Lewis are no good, Mothercare, M&S, Habitat, D&J have also proved useless.

Do Ikea sell anything suitable in their kids section. They do 'growing beds' and odd sized beds so they might do sheets to fit. Alternatively you could set to work with the scissors and sewing machine. Most catalogues sell bunk bed sheets (2'6" wide) but these would still be too long. Sorry I can't be more helpful.

Willow2, although I have a normal sized cot, I didn't like the quality of the available ready made sheets so I bought fabrics at john lewis and liberty's and had the fitted sheets made my the seamstress across the street (about £10 a sheet). I even made one myself, but it took so long I decided it was worth paying someone else to do it.
Also, it sounds like the bed that you have might be the size of an american cot (we call it crib in the usa). Try looking online at some american websites (potterybarn has a brilliant line of kids things). I bought a sheet in the us for a standard us cot and it was about 6" too long and too wide for my standard uk cot.

We had an American crib too and Mothercare fitted cot bed sheets were the right size for it, so if they're no good for your bed, Willow2, they must be different sizes.

You can get fitted sheets for 30" wide beds (called bunk size usually), not sure about flat ones, they would be for length 75" so only too long by 6"-7" each end - mail order catalogues have lots. You could just tuck under the extra length?

Not sure if this helps at all!!!

Try this

I'd actually be tempted to do as SofiaAmes suggests though and make (or get made) your own.

ta v much!

In Ikea, they sell sheeting for £2 per metre, I had to make my own sheets for ds junior bed.