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Make your own baby clothes
Some links I've found to patterns and instructions for making your own clothes for your new arrival. Some of these can be easily sewn by hand, done on a sewing machine, or knit up quickly to add to your ready mades, baby shower gifts and garage sale finds.
Please also check out my lens on Making Soft Toys
New Tutorial: Make your own Hooded Towels for baby's bath!
My crafting blog: KnitOwl
Other Baby Items to Sew
Ideas for other baby necessities to sew.Hooded towels: See our tutorial!
Burp cloths - Cut a piece of terry cloth, an old towel or flannel to the same size as a piece of washed cotton fabric. Place wrong side of cotton down and sew all around edge leaving 1 or 2 inches gap on one side. Turn inside out, close hole and then topstitch all around outside about 1/2 inch from the edge.
Tip: After turning inside-out, take a pencil eraser and poke the corners out before topstitching.
Flannel Blanket for baby's crib - Same instructions as the burp cloth except cut both pieces to the size of your baby's crib. You can add some horizontal or vertical topstitching down the length of the blanket or topstitch small squares or circles here and there to keep everything flat.
Roll-Up Changing Pad: See Instructions at my blog
Sewing and Knitting for your Newborn
some online resources
Necessity is the mother of invention - and mothers definitely want to get all the necessary items together for their new arrival, sometimes months ahead of time! It's nice to have a stockpile of clothes ready for your little one, and in a variety of sizes.
For those whom 'ready made' isn't quite what they're looking for, or want to use special fabrics, or yarns to make items for their babies - here are some links I've found and instructions for newborn clothes, pants, hats, bootees, shoes, sweaters etc...
Definitely check out the book 'Kwik Sew for babies', below, on Amazon. It has patterns for making everything you need for your new baby.
For those whom 'ready made' isn't quite what they're looking for, or want to use special fabrics, or yarns to make items for their babies - here are some links I've found and instructions for newborn clothes, pants, hats, bootees, shoes, sweaters etc...
Definitely check out the book 'Kwik Sew for babies', below, on Amazon. It has patterns for making everything you need for your new baby.
Great Stuff on Amazon
Sew & Go Baby: A Collection of Practical Baby Gear Projects/With Pattern
Amazon Price: (as of 07/25/2008)
Everything for Baby: Projects to Make Yourself
Amazon Price: $19.46 (as of 07/25/2008)
In stock soon. Order now to get in line. First come, first served.
Great place for patterns
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Patterns and Instructions Online
- Bitty Booties by Hello my Name is Heather
- Pattern for easy to make 'crib shoes' or felt bootees in two sizes, 0-3 months and 3-6 months. I've made these and they turn out really cute! Downloadable PDF file for personal use only...
- Yoda Sweater by Dogs Steal Yarn
- This is a fairly easy baby sweater, even for those who haven't knit a single sweater before! Easy garter stitch and stockinette with a size 6 needle.
- Martha Stewart 'kimono' layette pattern
- Sewing pattern for a kimono style 'wrap' shirt. I haven't tried this one, but it's on my list of things to make. The hardest part seems to be the enlarging of the pattern to match the measurements.
- Cinderella and Starwatcher socks from MagKnits
- Easy to knit booties. I used worsted cotton and wool yarns and size 3 DPNS to knit several pairs of these little socks.
- How to Make Easy Kids Pants from Handy Home Projects
- Nice step by step sewing machine instructions for making kids pants and jeans. I used a thrift store pair of pants in the correct size (0-3 mo and 3-6 mo) and these instructions to make several pairs of elastic-waisted pants.
Tip: When planning for elastic, stretch the original pair of pants out to the limit of its elastic and cut for that size waist. Then cut a piece of elastic just a little larger than the 'rest' position of the original pair and sew it together firmly at the ends before putting it in the waist. - Knit Baby Bell Bottom pants
- This is on my list to knit very soon! They are knit in Knitpicks Shine cotton with a size 5 needle and look very easy! Sizes for newborn to 2 years.
Knit an Easy Baby Hat
This hat should fit a newborn.
Materials: size 6 DPNS and a soft worsted weight yarn. Reccommended yarns: KnitPicks Shine Worsted, Caron Simply SoftCast on 66(for larger sizes use 72,78,84) stitches and join together to knit in the round.
Knit one row of garter stitch all the way around, put in a stitch marker.
Knit rounds of K5,P1 (knit 5, purl 1) for 9-10 centimeters (3.5 to 4 inches).
Knit round of K4, P2tog (knit 4, purl 2 together)
Knit round of K3, P2tog (knit 3, purl 2 together)
etc... until K0, P2tog (knit zero, purl 2 together)
Cut the yarn with a long tail hanging from your baby hat. Take a yarn or darning needle and draw the tail through all the stitches left on the knitting needles. Slip the needles out and draw the circle tight.
Use the darning needle to pull the yarn to the inside of the hat and weave/tie it down securely. Secure your beginning tail the same way and your hat is done!
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Love your lens! I made most of my kids clothes when they were young, now I get to make special and funky stuff for my grandkids. I've added you to my lensroll for Baby Boutique, Clothes for High-Stylin' Kids. Posted October 17, 2007 |
