Beautiful DIY envelope

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:47

When a baby is born in a family, the whole family gathers to be discharged from the hospital. A young mother wants her child to be the most beautiful and elegant on this significant day, so she is preparing for an important event even before the birth, looking at models of envelopes for a newborn. It is not difficult to sew them with your own hands, especially if your mother knows how to work with fabric and a sewing machine.

The first clothes for the baby should be appropriate for the season and be beautiful. Therefore, before manufacturing, you must definitely take an interest in new models, find out what materials are needed for sewing an envelope with your own hands. Now parents can find out in advance the gender of their unborn child, so the color scheme for the product can also be selected based on the results of ultrasound.

The article discusses several options for sewing a kit for a baby. A step-by-step description and a pattern will help even novice needlewomen do the work, and any loving mother will try for her baby, especially since sewing an envelope with your own hands is quite simple.

Requirements for sewing an envelope for a baby

Baby skin is very delicate and thin, sowhen choosing fabric for sewing a blanket, you must adhere to the following criteria:

1. Matter must be natural. Such a fabric will not emit toxins harmful to the baby, it will be hypoallergenic.
2. The do-it-yourself envelope for the statement must correspond to the season of the child's birth. If the child is taken from the maternity hospital in the summer, then batiste, cotton are used, and the inner layer is insulated with sheet holofiber. If you need to sew a winter version, then the fabric will need a warmer one - velor, fleece, several layers of insulation.
3. The child should be comfortable in the envelope. The size should correspond to the growth of the baby and not squeeze it.
4. All seams are carefully processed so that nothing rubs the skin. With the same requirements, decorative elements are selected - lace, fringe, Velcro or ribbons.

Recommendations before sewing

The envelope needs to be sewn for discharge after birth, and it will last for several months. However, the season changes and a light summer blanket is not suitable for use in winter, so it is recommended to make several envelopes at once with your own hands. One to sew elegant with ruffles and lace inserts for discharge, the other - casual for the summer and the third - for the winter version.

For the first appearance, they usually use an envelope in the form of a square blanket. This is a classic product. Only now you can not tie it with a wide ribbon corresponding to the sex of the child, but do a horizontal dressing on a clasp with a lush bow in front.

Tothe child was comfortable in the envelope, you need to take into account that the baby is growing rapidly. As a rule, the dimensions of the square version vary from 75 cm to 100 cm. The upper corner, where the baby's head will be placed, is decorated with great diligence: they make flounces or a lace frill. What types of envelopes are there?

Varieties of products

Before you make an envelope with your own hands, you need to consider their types and choose the one that you like the most. You can sew several pieces, as they can be used in different life situations.

1. Square quilt with straight or rounded corners. Suitable for babies up to 2-3 months, as well as for discharge from the hospital.



2. Rectangular version with ribbons, Velcro or buttons. It will take less fabric to sew, and you can make a longer length for a grown child.
3. Trapezoid set expands slightly towards the child's feet. Suitable for an active baby who loves to move his legs.
4. Slim fit with Velcro without headrest. Convenient when going to the clinic or when traveling by car. However, by this time the child should hold his head well.
5. Variant with legs. At the bottom of the envelope cut out two cavities for the legs. This is a more complex style, so it is not recommended for beginners.
6. The envelope with a hood. It can be created stationary, or you can sew a snake in the center and unfasten it if the child gets hot.

Square blanket

The easiest envelope to make with your ownhands is a square blanket. To make it, you will need two pieces of cotton fabric of different colors to visually separate the inner light part from the darker outer one. You also need to cut out the filler square. It can be a synthetic winterizer, alpolux or holofiber - depending on the season. First, the inner layer is sewn with a filler around the perimeter.

You can quilt the quilt a little with horizontal lines, rhombuses or sinuous patterns (optional). Then decorative elements are sewn around the perimeter. It can be a frill of the same fabric or lace, satin ribbon or ruffles, embroidered stripes, etc. Finally, the outer layer of fabric is sewn on top.

Now it is fashionable to fasten the envelope not with satin ribbons, but with a wide rectangular strip of the same fabric with a bow in front. For splendor, a piece of synthetic winterizer is also inserted inside it. After folding the blanket into an envelope, you only need to attach the strip with a bow up and fasten it on the back with Velcro or buttons.

Rounded Blanket

An envelope looks beautiful if all the corners of the blanket are rounded. To make them even, you need to make a template on thick cardboard and carefully circle it on the pattern with chalk.

The sewing principle is the same as that of a square blanket. There is no difficulty: even a mother who has never done sewing can handle sewing.

Envelope by pattern

It is easy to sew an envelope with your own hands according to the pattern given below. Three or more layers of fabric and filler are cut in this way at once. Hatching marks the places that need to be cut with scissors.

The detail of the headrest is made rounded and sheathed with ruffles or lace. The envelope is folded after sewing by lifting the lower rectangle on the child. Side "doors" are fixed on ties, bows or Velcro. The lower part will be visually hidden, so you don't need to decorate it.

The photo below shows that the envelope is assembled differently according to this pattern. Here the bottom decorated rectangle is lifted up past the side pieces.

Outwardly, the front part looks solid, it is desirable to bend its upper edge down for beauty.

You can decorate the surface of the envelope with your own hands in different ways: make an appliqué from a contrasting fabric, attach a bow or sew an outer layer in a patchwork style, that is, assemble an envelope from shreds, creating a geometric ornament.

Tight Velcro envelope

As you can see in the photo below, such an envelope fits the child's body well: he feels protected in such a "cocoon". This is an easy option for the warm season, when only a cap is put on the child's head.

The bottom of the envelope has a rounded extension for the legs, and the width of the product is adjusted on the top with Velcro fasteners. You can fasten it tighter or give your baby room to move.

How to sew an envelope

Considercarefully photograph the opened envelope. All sizes of the product are indicated, so the craftswoman will be able to sew such a product on her own.

The lower central part is represented by a pocket in which the baby is put. It remains only to wrap the side parts on the baby's chest and pack it tightly.

Material choose pleasant to the body. This is an everyday option, so it does not have any additional elements. You can make an application in the center. It is very convenient to use such an envelope, just put the child on the surface of the table and unfasten the sides.

The article discusses some of the most popular options for sewing an envelope for a baby: both festive, for discharge, and everyday. Anyone who once folded an A4 envelope with his own hands understands that similar techniques are used, only not paper is taken, but several layers of fabric.