How To Make A Crib Skirt

Happy 2022 friends!! Ane of my new year's day's resolutions was to be a better blogger. Seeing equally today is the 20th of January, you tin see how well I'm doing with my resolutions… I thing I want to start in the new year's day is Tutorial Tuesday, where I give y'all pace past pace directions on how to complete a projection. I won't hope that this will happen every Tuesday, only I'll do my best to mail a couple tutorials a month. The first tutorial is how to brand a crib skirt.

The get-go affair yous demand to do is measure your crib mattress. They vary in size slightly, but it should measure somewhere around 28″ wide and 52″ long. The side by side thing you demand to do is make up one's mind how long you want to make your skirt. If yous're a get-go time mom, you probably aren't thinking that you'll accommodate your crib height every bit your babe grows and starts sitting upwards, and then continuing. I didn't, and when I made a crib skirt for my son's plant nursery a few years ago, I made information technology touch the floor then a few months subsequently it was too long. I recently made a crib skirt for my childhood best friend's new baby and I made her's fourteen″ long. (This tutorial tin easily exist adjusted to make a bedskirt for any size).

For this crib brim, I used home decor fabric which measured 56″ wide. The habitation decor fabric was heavy enough weight that I didn't need to line it, AND wide enough that I was able to buy less yardage. I purchased ii yards, but could have gotten abroad with only ane.5. I as well bought a piece of cheap white fabric to use every bit the base that lays under the mattress. Nobody will meet information technology, so experience free to use a fleck of something leftover from a previous project.

Now that you have your measurements, cut your pieces to size, leaving an inch clearance on the two sides and bottom, and a half inch seam allowance on the summit. I folded over the sides and ironed, and then folded again to hibernate the raw border of the fabric and sewed.

Next, I repeated the same step with the lesser hem of the fabric. I snipped the corners at an angle and sewed. Repeat this with all four side console pieces.

Now, your'eastward prepare to attach the pieces to your base, which should exist cut the verbal size of your crib mattress. I used a serger to attach my fabric pieces because I wanted a finished look. If you do not have a serger, a zig zag stitch will work just fine. I promise you lot, nobody will ever come across this, and chances are, you won't be washing the crib skirt, and then yous have very lilliputian chance of information technology fraying. Once you've sewn all for sides, fe them flat, and ta-da!!

You tin go as fancy as y'all want to with your crib brim. Hither is the finished product on the crib. I also made a chevron quilt for this nursery, and I'll mail most that on another Tuesday tutorial. For my son's crib skirt, I added a stripe across the bottom. To brand this adjustment, only account for how wide you want the stripe and subtract that from the length of your other fabric.

I hope that this tutorial was helpful. I'd beloved your feedback or to see completed pictures of crib skirts you make. Please cheque out some of my other tutorials.