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kojotutorial: appliqued crib skirt

July 5, 2010

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Once you’ve made a custom, recovered crib bumper, your nursery requires 😉 a similarly fabulous crib skirt to match.  You can definitely make one from scratch (like I said, we’ve used the Amy Butler In Stitches nursery patterns with great success)… Or, if you have expensive taste in fabric like we do, you can buy a crib skirt from Target and applique it to match your nursery decor.

To do so, you’ll need:
-a plain crib skirt (ours was Circo, plain white) to fit your crib
-cardstock for making stencils
-scraps of fabric for appliques
-several yards of thick grosgrain ribbon that coordinates with your decor (optional)
-fusible webbing
-an iron
-a sewing machine

1. Iron (and iron and iron) your crib skirt until all the wrinkles are out and you have a lovely, flat work surface.  Pin thick grosgrain ribbon about an inch from the bottom seam of your crib skirt to ground your design.  Stitch the bottom edge of the ribbon in place.  If you don’t need to tuck any part of your design into the grosgrain, you could stitch the top edge down as well.  I was making trees whose trunks needed to be tucked into the thick grosgrain, so I stitched the top edge later. ***Just a note- if your taste errs on the preppy side and you just want a simple crib skirt, you could stop here!  The grosgrain bordered crib skirt was super cute on its own.

2. Make stencils to coordinate with your nursery decor.  I made a ‘tree’ (actually, just a raindrop shape), ‘branches’ and a bird.

3. Cut out a whole stack of your designs using fabric that matches your nursery decor (I used remnants from the crib bumper and solid colors to match).  Also, cut out a whole stack of matching fusible webbing shapes to match up with your fabric shapes.

4. It’s best to fully decorate/embellish your appliques before you iron them onto your crib skirt, so if you have any accents to add, now is the time to do it (I added all of the ‘branches’ to my ‘trees’ and left the birds alone).

5. Pin your appliques in place on your crib skirt before you start ironing them in place to help with even spacing… I actually needed to measure everything out as well (my crib skirt was 96″ long, fyi… so with my ‘trees’ and ‘birds’ measured and some simple division, I could space things out evenly).  When everything looks right, iron your appliques to your crib skirt and stitch around the perimeter of each applique.

6. With everything ironed on and stitched around, you’re done!  Put your lovely, custom crib skirt on your crib and admire!

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  1. CraftCrave says

    July 5, 2010 at 3:17 pm

    Just a quick note to let you know that a link to this post will be placed on CraftCrave today [05 Jul 12:00pm GMT]. Thanks, Maria

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  2. Rachel@oneprettything.com says

    July 5, 2010 at 6:31 pm

    Aww, it's gorgeous! What a beautiful skirt. Thanks so much for the details, I'll be linking.

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  3. casserole says

    July 6, 2010 at 2:35 am

    Oh, WOW! That looks like it came from a super high-end baby shop!

    I linked to your tutorial over at Craft Gossip Sewing:
    http://sewing.craftgossip.com/tutorial-appliqued-dust-ruffle-for-a-crib/2010/07/05/

    –Anne

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  4. Restorative Living says

    July 6, 2010 at 3:44 am

    I love, love this! It turned out so great!!

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  5. CraftCrave says

    July 6, 2010 at 3:22 pm

    Just a quick note to let you know that a link to this post will be placed on CraftCrave today [06 Jul 12:00pm GMT]. Thanks, Maria

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  6. Jessica says

    July 7, 2010 at 1:28 pm

    What a cute idea!! I love the little birdie on one of them.

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  7. CraftCrave says

    July 7, 2010 at 3:09 pm

    Just a quick note to let you know that a link to this post will be placed on CraftCrave today [07 Jul 12:00pm GMT]. Thanks, Maria

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  8. Andrea says

    July 7, 2010 at 5:25 pm

    That is beautiful! Love it!

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  9. CraftCrave says

    July 8, 2010 at 3:43 pm

    Just a quick note to let you know that a link to this post will be placed on CraftCrave today [08 Jul 12:00pm GMT]. Thanks, Maria

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    July 9, 2010 at 5:00 pm

    Just a quick note to let you know that a link to this post will be placed on CraftCrave today [09 Jul 01:25pm GMT]. Thanks, Maria

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  11. Delia says

    July 9, 2010 at 10:54 pm

    I love this! So adorable and unique. Very nice job!

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  12. CraftCrave says

    July 10, 2010 at 2:53 pm

    Just a quick note to let you know that a link to this post will be placed on CraftCrave today [10 Jul 12:00pm GMT]. Thanks, Maria

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    July 11, 2010 at 3:02 pm

    Just a quick note to let you know that a link to this post will be placed on CraftCrave today [11 Jul 12:00pm GMT]. Thanks, Maria

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    July 12, 2010 at 3:06 pm

    Just a quick note to let you know that a link to this post will be placed on CraftCrave today [12 Jul 12:00pm GMT]. Thanks, Maria

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    July 13, 2010 at 3:14 pm

    Just a quick note to let you know that a link to this post will be placed on CraftCrave today [13 Jul 12:00pm GMT]. Thanks, Maria

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    July 14, 2010 at 3:22 pm

    Just a quick note to let you know that a link to this post will be placed on CraftCrave today [14 Jul 12:00pm GMT]. Thanks, Maria

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    July 15, 2010 at 3:20 pm

    Just a quick note to let you know that a link to this post will be placed on CraftCrave today [15 Jul 12:00pm GMT]. Thanks, Maria

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  18. cribs for twins says

    April 27, 2012 at 1:10 pm

    Aww, I love this! What a beautiful skirt!

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    • Kirstin says

      April 27, 2012 at 10:41 pm

      Thank you!!!

      Reply

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