Feb 3 2009It's Elemental: A Periodic Table Duvet
This is a duvet cover that a loving woman made for her chemistry major boyfriend. I think this is the first time I've ever typed duvet. Secretly, I liked it.
You may or may not have seen a post I did back in the fall when I was in the planning stages of making a quilt for my boyfriend for Christmas, featuring the "periodic table of the elements", because he is a Chemistry major, and I thought he'd find it totally epic.
Unfortunately, It became a duvet cover instead of a quilt because of a) time constraints and the fact that I still had gifts for 7 or 8 other people that I was making and b) buying the batting for the inside would have put me $50 over budget instead of just $10 over. (shh, don't tell him.)
Haha, he totally just got told. And also, I want one. I'm gonna don an eyepatch and get my argon under that sucker. Know what I'm saying? You bring the parrot.
Hit the jump for several more of the construction.
Chemistry Duvet Cover [craftster]
Thanks to Praveen, who once made love on a periodic table of roses. In hindsight, thorns.
Reader Comments
1. Peregrinus - February 3, 2009 10:57 AM
Put the lead to bed.
2. Ollie Williams - February 3, 2009 11:03 AM
It's okay, but I'd hardly call it epic. Or for that matter, be so pompous to self-proclaim it to be epic. I'm sure he liked it none-the-less.
That's about as nice as I can be folks. Take it or leave it. I wouldn't want to put my reputation of being a total asshole to bed on this one.
See what I did there?
3. Requiredstein - February 3, 2009 11:09 AM
Elemental twister anyone?
4. Carlito - February 3, 2009 11:14 AM
Me recuerda a la secundaria
5. LSDiesel - February 3, 2009 11:14 AM
Where's the element of surprise?
6. Ollie Williams - February 3, 2009 11:16 AM
Next year give him a Jump to Conclusions mat. Get it? It's a mat, that you can.. jump.. to conclusions to! Lord, does the comedy ever stop? The answer is no.
7. Moose Knuckle - February 3, 2009 11:32 AM
Um... no
8. Daisy (TRO) - February 3, 2009 11:36 AM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never BAck Down where a space alien was threatening the school, and Max figured out, by using a periodic table on a teeshirt that considering the alien's past actions, selenium would be poisonous to him like arsenic is to us. Who thought that staring at tìts wouldn't pay off. Later Baja figured out a good source of Selenium would be shampoo. So they filled up a fire truck tank with shampoo and did battle with the giant alien, and when they saw it they said "Make 7-Up Yours"!
9. Rach - February 3, 2009 11:46 AM
They make periodic table shower curtains too...
http://www.firebox.com/product/1912/Periodic-Table-Shower-Curtain
10. softlicious - February 3, 2009 11:51 AM
I want Legend of Zelda or Mario themed stuff myself. But actually I don't think he cares about what she does FOR the bed as long as she gets her as IN the bed. I think we can put the theories that men are sex fixated in bed now, that's right I said "in bed now".
11. Angel Mass - February 3, 2009 12:40 PM
Hmmm Those pillows doesnt go well with the rest of the bed
12. naas - February 3, 2009 1:06 PM
looks amish
13. ThatGuy - February 3, 2009 2:02 PM
FIRST Since no one claimed it I take it by default First, Take that Daisy
14. Pat - February 3, 2009 2:22 PM
Way to get in there, #16. I guess I must now claim the obligatory SECOND. You're still a better man than I.
15. formerly SPELLINGNAZI© - February 3, 2009 7:40 PM
I completely concur with Ollie on this one:
Nice thought, yes. Epic, no.
16. formerly SPELLINGNAZI© - February 3, 2009 7:41 PM
Where's unobtainium?
17. Watch - February 3, 2009 9:19 PM
hmmmm, plutonium powered sex!
NO MORE NEVER BACK DOWN JOKES, THAT ShIT WAS A YEAR AGO!!!!
18. formerly SPELLINGNAZI© - February 4, 2009 1:38 AM
Yeah, good luck with that one "Watch".
19. Chelsea - February 4, 2009 9:06 AM
Hi, my friend found this webpage and forwarded it to me. I thought I'd post a picture of a quilt I made for a friend in Feb of 2008. She's not a chemist, but I am. Sorry I don't have a picture of it finished.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1275250&l=a9e28&id=517513884
20. Angel Mass - February 4, 2009 11:59 AM
You make some creative blankets Chelsea :)
21. Kelly - February 8, 2009 4:30 AM
I find it a bit telling that the bedding is for a twin bed. Nerd = sleep alone! Haha.
Also, I hate that every idiot that sees something kinda cool comments "This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong."
22. jordan - May 20, 2009 4:58 PM
how much would you charge to make one for me?