How To Make A Quilted Baby Play Mat

The idea of play mats is to keep them simple.

How to make a quilted baby play mat.

Place your batting in between your fabric pieces with the right sides of the fabric facing out. Place your circle template on top of your layers. Place the trim on the edge so that it conceals the seam line and stitch to the edge of mat. Great project for beginners.

Making a simple padded play mat 1. Pin the circle in a. Similarly rabbits ears are stitched from the bottom and free from the ground fabric. With wrong sides together pin the edges of the feature fabric and the quilted backing fabric together.

Cut out your circle with fabric scissors. Make the circle template by using the folded quarter circle tutorial here. To keep it a bit more interesting make the larger islands and planets go off of the edge of the play mat. Complete the blanket by pinning the bias.

Use your parchment paper to make a 34 wide circle template i use the folded quarters method to make large circles. Use a fabric pen to mark all the way around the edge of your circle and straight pin the layers together just inside of the circle. The kiddos need a bit of space for their own dudes ships and anything else that jumps into their minds. Fold your main fabric into fourths.

This will be the visible part of the play mat so choose. Straight grain binding tutorial. Next fold it again this time left to right. 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.

Layer the top fabric the quilting batting and bottom layer like a sandwich and smooth out any wrinkles. Stitch a small seam around the edge and overlock or if you have a four thread overlocker simply overlock the edge. Then use your measuring tape to. Tape the parchment paper together to make one big sheet.

Cut your main fabric into a 44 inch 112 centimeter square. The 3 year long story of the diy baby play mat quilt. All patterns are prepared by epp and then appliqued to the fabric. I usually cut 3 feet of parchment paper 3 times and tape.

I was thinking that this quilt could have many different uses. Take one piece of fabric and fold it in half three times so that it is in eighths. Easy baby quilt the sewing room channel easy to follow instructions for making a baby quilt. The little bee is in format of a toy have a close look at it.

It is stitched to a thick thread to the flower so that the baby can play with it.