Baby Bumper Pad tutorial

This is a gift of love.  But if you can sew a straight stitch you too could make a custom Crib bed set.

First carefully cut your selected pieces of fabric.  Ann Marie wanted an ivory, khaki and white color bedding.  

Here is all the pieces you need for one bumper.  Remember she is having twins, I had to make two sets.

We started with a plan.

Cut your pieces to form the backs and fronts of the bumpers.  I did have to trim a few to the correct dimensions. 

After sewing the strips together, I added a pre-ruffled ribbon to the tops of all four sides.  Pin rights sides together.

This is how is looked after the ruffle was added.  Then I finished sewing the other two sides.  I flipped it back to rights sides together and sewed the long side and one end closed.

Finished block patterns with ruffle.

I then inserted an IKEA bumper form to give the sides some stability.

The messy part.  I stuffed each section with polyfill.  I bought a huge box of the stuff on clearance at Michael's.  On the long sections I left an opening that I hand-stitched closed once it was stuffed.  

I added satin ribbon to the corners and middle to attach to the crib.

Tadaaa......
This is the side that you will look into the crib and see.

Next up the dust ruffle.  You have to have one of those too.

Here is sneek peek of the other finished set on one of the cribs.

I used - for two sets including a flat (not ruffled) dust ruffle
Four yards of the love fabric
Four yards of the soft chenille
1 yard of the satin fancy (all that was left at the store)
polyfil
2 IKEA bumpers

5 yards of ruffled fabric trim
12 yards of satin ribbon for ties

Another really great tutorial here, that I found on Pinterest.

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