How To Make A Quilted Baby Play Mat

Fold your main fabric into fourths.

How to make a quilted baby play mat.

Straight grain binding tutorial. With wrong sides together pin the edges of the feature fabric and the quilted backing fabric together. Pin the circle in a. Fold it in half top to bottom first.

The idea of play mats is to keep them simple. Tape the parchment paper together to make one big sheet. Place the trim on the edge so that it conceals the seam line and stitch to the edge of mat. This will be the visible part of the play mat so choose.

To keep it a bit more interesting make the larger islands and planets go off of the edge of the play mat. All patterns are prepared by epp and then appliqued to the fabric. Stitch a small seam around the edge and overlock or if you have a four thread overlocker simply overlock the edge. Making a simple padded play mat 1.

Place your circle template on top of your layers. Similarly rabbits ears are stitched from the bottom and free from the ground fabric. It is stitched to a thick thread to the flower so that the baby can play with it. Easy baby quilt the sewing room channel easy to follow instructions for making a baby quilt.

Take one piece of fabric and fold it in half three times so that it is in eighths. The little bee is in format of a toy have a close look at it. Then use your measuring tape to. Use your parchment paper to make a 34 wide circle template i use the folded quarters method to make large circles.

Next fold it again this time left to right. I was thinking that this quilt could have many different uses. Complete the blanket by pinning the bias. Place your batting in between your fabric pieces with the right sides of the fabric facing out.

Cut out your circle with fabric scissors. Great project for beginners. Layer the top fabric the quilting batting and bottom layer like a sandwich and smooth out any wrinkles. The 3 year long story of the diy baby play mat quilt.

You could sew crinkly sounding material in some of the bunting for new babies to play with or you could have cute pictures under the buntings to play a matching game as they grow older. Make the circle template by using the folded quarter circle tutorial here. Draw an arc on the. I usually cut 3 feet of parchment paper 3 times and tape.

The kiddos need a bit of space for their own dudes ships and anything else that jumps into their minds.