How to Customize Crib Bedding
Parents of new babies often choose to customize their new baby's crib bedding, either by monogramming the sheets, designing their own pattern for the bedding, or choosing bedding to fit the motif of the nursery. The design is entirely up to you, and the image of the customized crib bedding will forever remind you of when your child was an infant. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Embroidery thread
- Needle
- Computer
- Printer
- Iron-on transfers
- Iron
- Crib bedding pattern
- Scissors
- Scrap material
- Old clothes or blankets of sentimental value
Instructions
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Choose either solid or printed crib bedding. Solid bedding works better for customizing with embroidery or iron-on transfers. If you are planning to make your own custom crib bedding, choose scrap materials or old articles of clothing or old blankets that hold sentimental value to you. The pieces may be scrap blocks of your first outfit, or the last dress you saw your grandmother wear.
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Embroider the infant's name or initials onto the crib bedding. Embroidery usually looks best if placed in the center, or at a corner. However, you may get creative and embroider numerous inspirational quotes to cover the entire piece of bedding.
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Use iron-on transfers in a similar way. Design patterns, photo layouts or text on a computer. Print your creations off on iron-on transfers. You may use photos and text, or design a family tree diagram and fill it in. Print it in reverse so the iron-ons will come out right when you iron them onto the bedding.
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Test the iron-on transfers on scrap material to determine exactly how long it takes the iron-on to transfer completely. Stretch out the preferably solid bedding, and apply the iron-on transfer face down. Run a clothing iron over the back of the transfer several times until the test transfers. Repeat with the bedding transfers. Allow the bedding to cool, wash before using to prevent the transfers from rubbing off on your infant's face and body.
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Cut quilt blocks out of scrap material, old clothes and old blankets. Use a crib bedding pattern to sew the pieces together, add an elastic hem and you have custom made your own bedding from scrap materials or sentimental materials or clothing.
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Tips & Warnings
Never use buttons to decorate crib or infant bedding or blankets. Though the buttons may have sentimental value or look nice attached to the bedding, they easily come lose and find their way into tiny mouths, potentially causing choking and death.
Use nontoxic iron-on transfers to prevent allergic reactions to dyes or inks.
