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When you’re putting together a baby’s nursery, you want everything to be perfect. Julie Herman from Jaybird Quilts shows how you can sew your own fitted crib sheets. Sewing them yourself allows you to pick exactly the prints you want to use. Plus, her tutorial includes French seams so they are finished nicely.
Click below for her tutorial:
Fitted Crib Sheet Tutorial with French Seams, by Jaybird Quilts
[photo from Jaybird Quilts]
I’m always tempted by the pretty velvets at the fabric store. So much texture! And the way the fibers catch the light! But sewing on velvet is trickier than you’d think. That nap that lends beautiful texture also likes to slip and crawl. That nap can also spell disaster if you cut a piece the wrong direction. That isn’t to say you shouldn’t use buy that velvet and sew it into something gorgeous, you just need to go into your velvet sewing project prepared. And Melissa at Melly Sews has a post that takes you step by step through sewing on velvet.
Velvet is such a luscious fabric, especially for winter sewing projects. Of course there are velvet Christmas sewing projects – stockings, tree skirts, santa hats – but velvet is beautiful for all winter. Think of all the gorgeous velvet dresses, evening bags, hair accessories, even pillows and other home décor that you see all winter long.
Melly Sews’ post gives you the tips and tricks you need to know in order for your velvet sewing project to end up a success. There are types of projects better suited for velvets, and kinds of projects to avoid. She describes the different types of velvet available. And she also tells the best way to lay out and cut your pattern pieces from velvet fabric. Her tutorial also covers marking, pressing, and of course sewing that beautiful fabric. There’s also a video included in case that’s your preferred method for learning.
Head over to Melly Sews to learn how to sew on velvet fabric.
And if you want to learn more about that lovely blue velvet dress shown, she has a post that tells more about it including 2 ways to style it depending on if you want to be more dressy or more casual.
[photo credit: Melly Sews]
Can i still make a baby’s crib sheets from flannel fabrics that’s only 42″ wide?
I’ve read several blog posts that say flannel makes a soft fitted crib sheet, but none of them mention how to adjust for the narrower fabric. It may be the difference in width isn’t enough to make a different in the fit of the sheet, but I’ve never done it so I can’t say. You may just need to give it a try and then see how it fits over the mattress. –Anne