Clever mother’s simple trick for changing a quilt cover

From awkward mattress dances to flailing arms and tangled twists, homeowners all have their own little tricks to changing the dreaded quilt cover. 

But one clever mother-of-six from Queensland has now shared her own crafty technique – and it takes her just a matter of seconds to complete.

‘This is the way I change the quilt cover using the tricks I’ve picked up over the years,’ Joelle Skinner, the founder of Jedi Mum Tricks, said. 

Step one: Turn the quilt cover inside out and place your quilt on top of it

Step two: Use nappy pins to secure each corner

Mrs Skinner begins by turning the quilt cover inside out and placing her quilt on top of it.

She then uses nappy pins to secure each corner of the quilt cover to the quilt before rolling them both ‘like a giant sushi towards the end that opens’.

She then flips the rolled quilt into the opening of the cover, rolls it back out, secures the button and shakes it out to reveal a perfectly made bed. 

Step three: Roll them both like a giant sushi, towards the end that opens

Step four: This bit is a little tricky, you need to flip the roll into the opening of the cover

‘Using the nappy pins on each corner means the quilt stays in place in the cover,’ she said. 

‘Great trick, my covers drive me insane,’ one woman wrote. 

‘Best hack ever.’      

Mrs Skinner, 36, from the Gold Coast, regularly shares her clever tricks and tips and previously used just seven 50-cent pencil cases from Kmart and a plastic box to sort her first aid box.

Step five: Then all you have to do is unroll it, fasten the buttons and give it a good shake

‘Using the nappy pins on each corner means the quilt stays in place in the cover,’ she said

Mrs Skinner, 36, recently used just seven 50-cent pencil cases from Kmart and a plastic box to sort her items clearly

Mrs Skinner simply labelled each case with its contents by using the clear letter slots created for children’s names. 

She went on to allocate each case with a specific purpose – some for ointments and droppers while others were created for allergy medications and baby-related products. 

Once sorted, she then placed them in a secure box up high, away from curious little hands.  

She went on to allocate each case with a specific purpose and flipped the letters so they could be read upside down

Once sorted, she then placed them in a secure box up high, away from curious little hands

‘Organised our medicine box last night, so nice and neat now,’ she wrote on her page, Jedi Mum Tricks. 

‘I just switched them upside down so they’re easier to read.’

This isn’t the first ‘hack’ Mrs Skinner has shared, with the doting mum recently wowing thousands by transforming a Kmart sideboard she got for $35 into a chic beachy style design.

‘The sideboard was $35 on clearance (rrp $45) and I spent about the same on paddle pop sticks, and cheap plywood from Bunnings,’ Mrs Skinner told FEMAIL.

Mrs Skinner recently transformed a Kmart sideboard she got for $35 into a chic beachy style design.

‘The sideboard was $35 on clearance (rrp $45) and I spent about the same on paddle pop sticks, and cheap plywood from Bunnings,’ Mrs Skinner said

She also used shoe polish and kebab skewers to bring the table to life. 

‘Underneath the icky plastic veneer was some beautiful wood,’ she said. 

‘I used wood glue to stick on close to 300 popsicle sticks and then used liquid nails to add semi-circle dowel rods to cover the gaps where the sticks met.

‘Afterwards I patched up any other gaps using wood putty – sanding this afterwards was the most time consuming thing.’

‘I used wood glue to stick on close to 300 popsicle sticks and then used liquid nails to add semi circle dowel rods to cover the gaps where the sticks met,’ she said 

Mrs Skinner stuck on some cheap 3mm plywood with liquid nails and used shoe polish as wood stain – the clever mum using just two coats to give the wood a nice teak look

After that Mrs Skinner stuck on some cheap 3mm plywood with liquid nails and used shoe polish as wood stain – the clever mum using just two coats to give the wood a nice teak look. 

‘Then I used kebab skewers on the edges to fill the gaps where the ply met, filled in with some wood putty and gave it a good sand,’ she said. 

‘I also used some semi circle dowel around the front edges and replaced the boards holding the legs with some pine. It looks great!’ 

‘I also used some semi circle dowel around the front edges and replaced the boards holding the legs with some pine. It looks great,’ she said 

This is one of many hacks shared by Mrs Skinner, who recently used a reconfigured $25 Kmart towel rack to store her kids’ puzzles and transformed a $20 balance board from Kmart and a LEGO plate from eBay to make a LEGO maze.

‘The kids stand on it and have to use their core muscles to move the marble through the maze,’ Mrs Skinner said of the latter creation. 

She also used food dye to dye her $5 Jenga blocks to make them more exciting for the kids, created a wall hanging using a $12 bath mat and some wool and made a school bag station using $30 chrome shelving and some wood. 

This is one of many hacks shared by Mrs Skinner, who recently used a reconfigured $25 Kmart towel rack to store her kids’ puzzles

She also transformed a $20 balance board from Kmart and a LEGO plate from eBay to make a LEGO maze, saying: ‘The kids stand on it and have to use their core muscles to move the marble through the maze’

Despite Mrs Skinner’s clever creations, she has no background in interiors or building. 

‘I have six kids, one lives in heaven, and I throw myself into hacks and DIYs as a way to deal with my grief,’ Mrs Skinner said.

‘I am self-taught. I get a lot of inspiration from Pinterest and learn how to build things from YouTube.’       

Mrs Skinner used chrome shelving (around $30 total) and some wood to make this school bag station

She also a cat bed and a toy wagon to make this cute pull buggy

And for those who think it is too time consuming to do themselves, Mrs Skinner says it’s worth it. 

‘I find it to be energising – using the creative part of my brain and seeing problems and solving them with hacks makes me feel so good,’ she said. 

‘Without an outlet like this, it’s so easy to just get bogged down in the daily grind. Some people make time for going to the gym for the same reasons, this is what I make time for, and as a bonus, I often work up a sweat doing it!’