Studio Update: CRIB BEDDING (Part 1 of the set)

I have a sweet client whose baby girl is in real need of a crib set.  She has been in her crib for a little while without a bumper pad and keeps losing her binkies in the night, down through the slats.    So mama decided a bumper pad would definitely help with this problem.  And of course that means a whole set, right?!

She chose some lovely and sweet fabric for her little baby girl's crib bedding set.  Here is the bedskirt -I just love this yellow printed with the purple butterflies.  Her drop to the floor is 10", and will stay that way when the crib is transitioned to toddler bed as well.

The crib sheet is a matching purple with a tiny polka dot print.

The bumper pad is always fun to put together.  This time I used the long tube method.  It all gets sewn up and then the batting-covered pads are inserted one by one up to the proper intervals, so they can bend at the tie placement.  (Do you like the rubber duckie my son got into the picture?)

 Here is a closeup of the bumper pad.  We chose a beautiful soft yellow plaid as the ties and piping to complement the butterfly fabric.

Look at all those pretty ruffles made from the same purple polka dot print as the sheet.

Here is a snag view of what it will look like when put together in the crib.  Don't you love the combinations?  

Wait until you see it with the comforter... (future post - we had to hurry and get the bumper pad and other things finished ASAP so baby girl does not lose any more sleep over lost binkies in the crib!)  

And now to get these off to my client so she can take care of that problem!  (I will get and post pictures of the whole crib set in place on the crib as soon as I can!)  

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Studio Update: POPPY BEDDING

My latest project is this sweet bedding set.  I think the combination of fabrics here is so cute and original.

This is my client's daughter's nursery.  Last year, she purchased a crib bedding set for her nursery and ordered two matching valances for her windows.  But the windows were two different sizes so she had me take from one valance to add to the other so they would be proportional to the windows, and look right.   

I also made some adorable basket liners for the room - I love this idea to make boring or not-quite-matching baskets "go with" the decor.

Now, baby girl is one year old, and mom is thinking of the future bedroom.  She still loves the bedding fabrics and wants her daughter to have the same cute prints when the (convertible bed) crib is converted to the next size.  Not that baby girl is ready yet - but the catch is:  the fabric has to be ordered now or who knows if it will be available in a few years when she decides she is done with the crib?  Smart mama - get it ready now so when the day arrives that sweetie-pie climbs out of the crib - it's big girl bed time! 

That's where I came in again!  And YAY!  Because I love bedding sets!

I made a full-sized comforter out of the darling Poppy fabric.  Do you see the sweet flocking dots on this fabric?

I did a random swirly machine-quilted stitch to hold the layers together.

And I love the red piping (matching the valance tabs) around the edge.  And the back is a beautiful white spring woven pique fabric.  

The combination is sweet and will grow with this baby girl's room decor as she grows.

Mom will store this away until the time is right, and enjoy her time with her sweet little girl while she is little.

I also made two standard pillow shams to coordinate with the comforter.  I always install hidden zipper closures.

The Poppy fabric is the main body and white pique piping with the black polka dot for the ruffles.

The gathered bedskirt will be made from the polka dot  fabric also.  (We have to wait on that one - for when mom can measure the drop to the floor when the bed is converted).

Aren't they gorgeous together?  Don't worry, when the transition is made, I will share the pictures of the "nursery transitioned to toddler's room".  I can't wait!  But I will...because childhood is fleeting and moms need to enjoy it while it lasts! 

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Studio Update: RUFFLED SPLIT BEDSKIRT

One of my favorite things to sew up is a bedroom set. I have a client right now who is redoing her young daughter's bedroom - so I have been whipping up a new bedskirt, duvet cover, window valance, bed pillows, maybe a new lampshade cover, etc. (I will post all of these components of the room soon...)

The first thing I need to explain is the "split". The girl's bed is a beautiful metal antique-ish frame that has these railing rods or bars(I guess you call them that - we are) every 15 inches down the length of the bed. These bars by the boxspring are such that a continuous bedskirt would not work. So the bedskirt has to be split into 5 sections so that it can hang down from the bed to the floor and the bars can sit between the sections. (When we have a completed pic of the room, I will post it so you can what I mean).

Her mother had purchased a bedskirt that was pretty basic and asked me to make it AWESOME! It was the right color but did not fit the boxspring with the bars and needed my TLC, and some fanciness! So I cut up the bedskirt into sections, hemmed the sides of each section, and began to embellish!



We had cut off the selvage of the fabric for the window valance (coming soon) to use somewhere in the room. (It was a cool selvage with awesome fringe on it - I left enough of an edge to attach it to something and show off the fringe). I attached a piece of selvage to the bottom of each bedskirt piece.



Then I made lots and lots of narrow ruffles, gathered down the center. This was another of the fabrics to be used in the room.



I attached a row of ruffles on top of the selvage to cover up the serged edge, but left enough showing so the selvage fringe could peek out.



I sewed down the center of the ruffles to attach them above the selvage piece.



Cute so far! (I know - it needs a press with the iron!)



All sections are done the same way - ready to now attach to the old bedskirt deck! I just had to layer them all to see all those gorgeous ruffles together!



I lined up all my sections along both sides of the deck and sewed them on. You can't tell that they are in sections - it just looks like a continuous bedskirt, except for the corners.



Here are the corners at the foot of the bed, where the end bars are.



This is the foot of the bedskirt. It did not need any splits - there were no bars here.



Here I seperated the sections so you can see how the split looks.






Before it gets set up on the bed, I test how the corners lay and how everything looks, just on my table. Can't wait to see it all put together on the bed!



Do you have a bedskirt you could redo to fit your bedroom scheme?


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