How to make a sling with your own hands: a pattern, tips for making

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:46

Sling is a great helper for a new mother. He frees her hands, and the baby at the same time feels the same as in the arms of the mother. Slings are sewn from soft natural fabrics and are suitable even for newborns, providing physiological and safe wearing. Despite the growing number of manufacturers of such accessories, many mothers prefer not to purchase a product, but to sew it on their own. From this article you will learn the features of sewing the main types of slings with your own hands.

Main species

There are quite a lot of varieties of slings. But only a few of them are most widespread: a sling scarf, a sling with rings, a mai sling, a sling backpack (fast sling). Every mother, going to sew such a product, of course, wants it to fit both a newborn baby and a runner child. Sling-backpack and fast-sling for newborns are not suitable, so their manufacture in thisreview is not considered.

Sling fabric

It is important that the sling is universal both in size and in fabric characteristics. For a newborn, the so-called scarf fabric is ideal - a fabric of double diagonal, jacquard, diamond and some other types of weaving. This material allows you to best absorb the steps of an adult when worn, ideally attract the baby to the parent and adjust the size of the product to a particular child.

However, scarf fabric is extremely difficult to find in a regular store. It can be purchased from some sling manufacturers. You can also buy a used woven sling scarf and create a ring sling out of it. Or a comfortable May-sling.

Of course, you can sew a sling for a newborn not only from scarf fabric. You can pick up any loose material (for example, linen, silk or cotton), and this option will also be universal and all-weather. To wear a newborn, you can sew a sling scarf from knitwear, but it should be borne in mind that such a fabric stretches over time and is no longer suitable for wearing a grown child.

You can also sew a warm version of the sling - from fleece. When choosing a fabric, you should be guided by your needs (wearing at home or on the street, from birth to a year or up to 2-3), as well as the climate in the region where you live.

Choosing the size of the sling-scarf

Cutting out and sewing such a sling with your own hands is quite simple. After all, he is justlong canvas. To make the scarf universal for wearing by children of different ages, its width should be 70 cm (excluding folds at the edges). The length of the scarf depends on the size of the clothes and the height of the mother.

If she is of average height (155-170 cm), the desired length of the sling-scarf is equal to the size of the clothes divided by 10. That is, a mother with 46 clothes needs a scarf 460-470 cm long, which corresponds to the 6 international size of this sling. The sizes of sling scarves are presented in the table. Sizes 2-4 fit cropped scarves but are less versatile.

Size	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Length cm	270	320	370	420	470	520	570

If mom is tall, then you need to focus on a larger scarf size. If her height is below 155, then the previous size will fit.

Sewing a sling-scarf

To sew this type of sling with your own hands, you should cut out a parallelogram from the fabric with small bevels (about 30 cm) of the required length and standard width. You can cut a scarf in a different shape (rectangular, spindle-shaped).

Before cutting, it is better to wash the fabric, as it shrinks during the first wash. Now it remains only to processedges, making a double hem of the fabric around the entire perimeter, and carefully stitch this hem on a sewing machine. It is recommended to make a middle mark in the middle of the sling in the upper and lower parts - sew on bright labels or make embroidery. This is necessary for easy and correct winding of the sling.

Features of sewing a sling with rings

To sew such a sling with your own hands, you will need a piece of fabric and a pair of rings. It is better to buy special rings: they undergo serious tests for strength, hypoallergenicity and smoothness. They can be found on sale from sling manufacturers or in specialized stores. The best choice is L size rings with an inner diameter of 75 mm. Such parts may be aluminum or plastic.

There are many ways to sew a ring sling. The main differences are in the part into which the rings are sewn in (the "shoulder" of the sling). It can be a continuation of the main fabric or cut out separately, and a soft seal can be inserted into this part of the sling to ease the load on the parent. Let's focus on the simplest option - a one-piece sling with rings.

An excellent option is to sew such a sling from a scarf, especially since worn scarf fabric becomes unusually soft over time. From the selected fabric, you need to cut out a rectangle about 200 cm long and 80 cm wide. If mom has a very large clothing size, the length can be increased. Then machine 3 sides (2 long and 1 short) using a hem.

After that, the raw part should be skippedthrough both rings and sew with a stitch with a hem of the fabric to the main part of the sling. For reliability, it is better to make several lines. Many mothers recommend that before this, make a few folds on the fabric with a hand stitch or pins so that its width matches the diameter of the rings. That's all. The sling is ready to use!

May Sling: Making Tips

May-sling is a rectangular part, called the back of the sling, with waist and shoulder straps sewn into it. If it is made to be worn by a newborn baby, it is preferable to use scarf fabric or a previously worn sling scarf.

May-sling pattern for the size that fits most babies has the following details: 2 back pieces measuring 42 × 52 cm, 2 waist straps 65 cm long and 20 cm wide, 2 shoulder straps 200 cm long and 25 cm wide. This length of the straps is suitable for a mother of average height and build and can be increased or decreased. It is recommended to cut the back with a semicircular upper part - it is more convenient to support the child's neck.

It is better to start processing from the lower straps. To do this, you need to chop them with a pin right side inward and sew the seams on 3 sides, leaving one raw short side, and then turn them out. After that, we process the shoulder straps: sew 3 seams with a hem, leaving one short side unprocessed.

On the raw side, you need to lay a few folds for ease of sewing into the back, securing them with a hand seam. These elementsusually sewn into the back at an angle between the top and side. Then it is necessary to chop off the parts of the back with the outer side inward and stitch the seams on 3 sides, leaving the bottom of the back unsewn, as well as places for sewing in the straps.

After that, turn the back, fold it over and iron the seam allowances at the places where the straps are sewn in, and then insert the straps one by one into the holes in the back and sew on the machine several times. After that, it remains only to make a seam on the lower part of the back, and the mai-sling, sewn with your own hands, is ready.