How to properly sew a quality children's duvet cover

Loving parents always try to create the most comfortable living conditions for their children. Since the child at the beginning of his life spends most of his time in a dream, the comfort in the crib is very important. Baby bedding is one of the main factors that help the child to relax and feel protected. Sewing yourself a children's duvet cover, a pillowcase and even more so a sheet will not be difficult. A little of your time, and the child will receive a beautiful bed with a favorite pattern.

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Why to sew baby bedding yourself?

Some parents in this process see solid cons. This is because the time, energy to choose a fabric, as well as sewing. But we will look at things from a different angle. So, the advantages of the self-sewn children's bedroom set:

• The children's duvet cover, pillowcase, sheet will have exactly the dimensions that you need. The sheet will not hang ugly, the pillowcase will not squeeze the pillow, and the blanket will harmoniously fit into the children's duvet cover.
• The design of bed linen, namely the placement of a hole for a blanket in a children's blanket and the presence or absence of gum in the sheet, will depend only on your preferences.
• Drawing, the color of a child's older bed can choose independently.
• Independent sewing of children's bed linen will save the family budget significantly.

Important! According to the recommendations of a psychologist, the fabrics of blue, beige or pink tones are best for the child's bedding. Such colors will contribute to a quiet, prolonged sleep of the baby.

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General advice on tailoring

In order not to make unnecessary expenditure of money and effort, it is necessary to know how to approach the issue of sewing baby clothes into the crib as rationally as possible:

• You will often wash and iron the child's duvet cover, pillowcase and sheet, so the fabric should be dense and high-quality.

Important! When buying fabric, pay attention to the labels with instructions for the temperature of washing and ironing.

• When choosing matter for these purposes, be based on the principle: the more natural, the better. Synthetics in large quantities are simply unacceptable for a child and especially a newborn.

Important! Fabric with a natural composition has a property when washing to sit down. Therefore, you should make allowance for the seam and shrinkage, making out a children's duvet cover.

• If you do not know how to sew a children's duvet cover yourself, then choose a canvas with a large width. With such a fabric it is easier to work both in cuts and in the tailoring itself. Also, wide matter will help to avoid stitching in the middle of the finished product. The ideal option is if the width of the fabric is the same as the width of the blanket.

Important! Optimal in working width of textile for sewing baby bedding is considered to be a width of 2.2 m.

• When cutting out, it is recommended to place the fabric so that the share thread runs along the length of the product. Thus, you will avoid changing the shape and size of the child's blanket after washing.

Important! When buying a fabric, make sure that the seller cuts the piece you need exactly, without distortion. The presence of skews will significantly complicate the cutting and sewing of bed linen for the child.

For children's sets, such fabrics are used:

• Cotton is an environmentally friendly material, soft and pleasant to the touch.
• Cotton - light cotton fabric.
• Atlas is a dense silk material, the front side of which is smooth and shiny. Such a cloth is used, as a rule, for making adult bed linen.
• Flax - has a smooth surface and a matte shine.
• Satin-suite is a strong canvas with glitter.
• Poplin is a cotton fabric with a silk admixture.
• Polyester is a soft material of synthetic origin. For the manufacture of kits in a crib for children is used extremely rarely.

Important! Also, coarse calico, ranforce and supercotton are used, which have tight binding of threads and therefore are durable.

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Material consumption for newborn baby bedding

1. Based on the standard sizes of bedding, approximately 4.5 m of fabric is required, taking into account allowances and shrinkage.
2. For a blanket cover: for a width of 2,2 m, you will need 143 cm.

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How to sew a children's duvet cover: the work stages of

You will need directly for work: fabric, scissors, thread and sewing machine. And the sewing process looks like this:

• The first step is to measure the width and length of the blanket. To the received results it is required to add on 5 sm on allowances for seams with allowance for shrinkage.
• The simplest version is a duvet cover, which consists of two rectangles. Each of them along the perimeter is processed by a seam along the edges of 0.5 cm bent twice.

Important! It is recommended to stretch, dry and iron the fabric before cutting. After such procedures the canvas will not be planted in the future, and you will operate with real dimensions.

• The processed rectangles are folded to the front of each other and stitched on three sides.
• On the fourth unshielded side, it is necessary to map a hole through which the blanket will be pushed through.

Important! Preliminary think on which side will be the hole for the blanket - on the side or from below.

• Staple the remaining side to the marks, and sweep the edges of the gap with a fixing seam staple.

Important! To prevent the blanket from falling out of the duvet cover, you can sew a sticky ribbon, zipper, buttons or buttons into the hole.

• Iron the finished blanket cover and insert a blanket into it.

Decorating your creation

You can decorate a children's duvet cover with the help of ruffling, lace, applique, embroidery and other ways that your imagination tells your child. Decorate the duvet cover is only from one - the front side, so that only soft natural fabric touches the baby's body.

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How to sew a sheet on an elastic band in a crib alone?

Calculation of the material consumption for such a sheet should be done according to the following formula:

• Mattress width + 2 * mattress thickness + 2 * 2 cm( per seams) + 2 * 6 cm( allowance).
• The length of the mattress + 2 * the thickness of the mattress + 2 * 2 cm( on the seams) + 2 * 6 cm( allowance).

Important! With a width of a mattress of 60 cm, a length of 120 cm and a thickness of 12 cm, you will need to cut a rectangle with sides 100x160 cm.

Stages of work:

1. Fold a piece of cloth four times and cut out a square in the corner.
2. Sweep the corners and try on the children's mattress.
3. We process and process slices.
4. We left 2 cm for filing. Turn the edges and spend, leaving at a distance of 25 cm from the corners of the 4 holes for the insertion of rubber bands.
5. We insert the elastic into the sheet, tighten and sew its ends.

The sheet on the elastic band is ready.

Important! This kind of mattress cover is very convenient, because the sheet does not slip and does not crumple under the baby, it looks neat and beautiful.

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Which seam to use when sewing a bed set?

The best for such purposes is the underwear seam. It's quite simple to execute it:

1. Fold the fabric with the wrong side inward and sew, retracting 0.5 cm from the edge.
2. Unscrew the seam so that the underside of the fabric is facing out, and again stitch it away from the edge 0.7 cm.
3. After following the above recommendations, stitch the seam allowance to the fabric.

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Standard sizes of child bedding sets

The size of the linen in a baby bed depends on the child's age and the dimensions of his bed.

Standard sizes of baby bedding for a newborn

Babies spend most of the first half of their life in a crib, so it is important that the children's duvet cover, sheet and pillowcase are comfortable, practical and liked the baby.

• Single bed linen

  As a rule, an older child sleeps in a single bed, the standard sizes of the laundry for which are as follows:

  • Duvet cover: 115x147 cm
  • Sheets: 120x150 cm.
  • Pillowcase 40x60 cm.

  Standard sizes of bedding for teens

  When choosing a fabric for a teen bed kit, it is necessary to take into account the design preferences of the teenager. Regarding the dimensions, the kit has the following parameters:

  • Duvet cover - 145х215 cm.
  • Sheath - 150х220 cm.
  • Pillow case - 50х70 cm.

  

  Double sets for children

  Not so often as single, but still in demand and double sets of underwear for the child. Such sets have in their composition one sheet, one duvet cover and two pillow cases. Their dimensions are as follows:

  • Sheets - 180x260 cm.
  • Duvet cover - 160х220 cm.
  • Pillow case - 50х70 cm.

  Lingerie sets of the European model

  . European standards, which are more common abroad, but also found in our country, are not significant, but still differfrom our parameters of bed sets:

  • Duvet cover - 200х220 cm.
  • Sheets - 215х240 cm.
  • Pillow case - 50х70 cm.

  Dimensions of the kindergarten set

  Often kindergartens require parents to bring a bed setlinen for your child. It must meet the requirements of the hospital. For such purposes, the following fabrics are most suitable: coarse calico, linen, satin, chintz.

  Dimensions such kits are as follows:

  • Sheets - 100x145 cm
  • Duvet cover - 110х145 cm.
  • Pillowcase - 40х60 cm.

  . Independent sewing of baby bedding will not take you much time, as it seems initially. Involve in the process of tailoring and child, then the pleasure of work and result will be twice as much.