How to sew a three-dimensional mat for a child?

Many craftsmen like to invent and sew interesting products for young children. It's so nice if a child has a thing made by own hands, because she has a special warmth and energy. You can make not only clothes, but also nice accessories for the baby. A great idea is to learn and understand how to sew a three-dimensional carpet for a child. With his own hands, such a patchwork and textured canvas is quite easy to make, however, you will need time and perseverance.

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A bit about the product

What is such a soft accessory for a child? The blanket or rug consists of a base fabric, on which the square flaps of fabric are specially sewn. They are filled with stuffing, and the mat acquires volume and incredible softness. This technique is called "bombon".In addition, it is still known by the terms "biscuit" and "ottomans".

Important! To give the mat a brightness and children's themes, the cuts of the fabric use a variety of colors or ornaments.

The product can be used for a variety of purposes:

• As a blanket.
• Warm and soft mat for kid's games.
• Decorative plaid on the crib.
• Comfortable and comfortable cape for highchair.

The mat from the volumetric squares with their own hands can be issued in a variety of ways - it all depends only on your imagination and taste. Let's designate several ideas for the rug's performance:

• A plain cloth of any color. If you sew a mat for a newborn boy, you can make it gently blue, and for a little princess - pink.
• Contrast tones. Bright, bright and fun. Incredible rainbow combination. Some models of the product are decorated with multi-colored stripes diagonally.
• Very interesting and stylish look rugs, which combine two or three related shades.
• Choose the colors that match the bed linen of the baby, and then you will get a uniform composition of textiles.
• Draw the outside edge of the rug around the perimeter with a strip of puffs of contrasting color. You can continue the idea and make a rectangle from the same shade in the center of the product.
• You can also arrange bombs of various shades and ornaments in different ways: chaotically, symmetrically, diagonally, chess.

Next, we learn step by step how to sew a three-dimensional mat for a child.

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Preparatory stage

At this stage it is necessary to determine:

• Design of the rug. Think of a drawing and a scheme for arranging colored flaps.

Important! Very helpful in this is a drawing made on paper.

• Applied fabrics. Based on the idea, you need to choose the material from which the child's fabric will be made. It is necessary not only to choose the fabric, but also its shades, patterns and patterns. In addition, the material is used for different purposes: fabric for the base, fabric for puffs, if necessary - fabric for the bottom base.

Important! For children's things it is better to choose hypoallergenic and pleasant to the touch canvases. It is desirable that they are natural.

• Material for packing. It is best to use sintepon or holofayber.
• Presence of a decor and its execution.

Important! Supplement the original blanket with a beautiful ruffle around the outer perimeter of the canvas, a bright satin ribbon or an interesting braid.

Next we offer to your attention a master class how to sew a three-dimensional carpet for a child.

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Tools and materials

So, before starting work, prepare the following materials and tools:

1. Cotton for the top of the elements: 16 pieces of 50 to 50 cm size are needed.
2. Cotton for making 144 pieces of 11 by 11 cm. The color of these elements can be anything, as they are not in sight.
3. Cotton for the basis of a cloth in the size 90 on 160 see Choose enough dense material and not too mark.
4. Under the shade of the base, select a slanting bake approximately 5 meters long.
5. For stuffing pouffes you will need a holofiber.
6. Threads, pins, needles.
7. Sharp scissors.
8. Sewing machine.

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Preparation of the fabric and pattern of the parts

If you want the volumetric mat for the child to be smooth, symmetrical and beautiful with your own hands, preliminary decalcify the fabric.

Important! This procedure consists of wet and heat treatment of the material, consisting of washing, drying, ironing of cotton. These manipulations exclude the shrinkage of natural fabric, the warp of the parts.

After this, proceed to the cut of the details. We cut the facial bright fabric into 144 squares measuring 15 by 15 cm, and the additional cotton for the same number of elements, but 11 by 11 cm in size.

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Stapling and packing

Next we make the following:

• We take two parts of different sizes: one square 11 by 11 cm, and the second 15 by 15 cm. On a large flap on each side we create a counter fold of 2 cm. As a result of such manipulations, the parameters of the parts will be equalized. Fix the folds with pins.
• We connect both parts face outward, again fasten with pins. Sew on the machine, leaving a small hole for packing.
• Prepare in this way 144 elements of the rug. That is why in the beginning we mentioned some time costs, perseverance, as the work is rather laborious.
• Fill all the elements with a holofiber.

Important! Do not stuff the pouffes too tightly, since during the assembly the parts will shrink.

• After filling, we hole the hole on the machine.

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Assembling the

After you have prepared all 144 parts, it remains to assemble the voluminous mat for the child with your own hands. How to do it? The technique is as follows:

• Two ready-made squares are applied to each other face, that is, a convex side.
• We combine details on one side in the most careful way.
• Fixes with pins.
• Staple the elements on this side.
• Gradually connect all 144 parts.

Important! You need to assemble in sequence, according to your product design.

• We fold the resulting convex canvas and the base underneath it facing each other.
• We sew on the perimeter machine, leaving a small hole.
• We turn to the front side, sew the remaining gap.
• We make out the rug from the volumetric squares with our own hands along the edge of the oblique bake.

And now a beautiful, bright mat is ready! The baby is sure to be delighted with such a wonderful soft canvas, it will be fun to play on it or to sleep sweetly, covered with a blanket.

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Another sewing method:

1. The fabric for the basis of the rug is delineated into squares.
2. Cut the appropriate number of squares for the bombs.
3. We lay out the parts on the base, we sew horizontally. In the end - it turns out a kind of ribbon of squares.
4. Then the first such strip is applied face up to the top line drawn on the bottom. We fix the details with each other with pins.
5. After that, we combine the other sides of the strip and the line.
6. The next step is grinding the top and vertical lines. In the process, you need to make folds on each square.
7. Pockets were obtained.
8. Fill them with sintepon or holofayberom.
9. The second strip is applied to the already sewn the first tape with the wrong side up, fastened with pins.
10. Stitching on the machine, forming the same folds, as in the previous time.
    We turn to the front side the second strip.
11. We correlate all of its edges with a drawn out chart, fasten it with pins, sew on a typewriter.
12. We fill the pockets, repeat all the actions the required number of times.
13. In the end it was only necessary to decorate the canvas with beautiful ruffles around the edges of the product.

In such ways, you can sew a beautiful volumetric mat for a child with their own hands. Of course, the occupation is long, but uncomplicated, not requiring any special sewing skills. But such a soft accessory will not only be an unexpected, pleasant gift for the baby, but also the most favorite attribute for sleeping or playing games.