How To Make A Quilted Baby Play Mat

All patterns are prepared by epp and then appliqued to the fabric.

How to make a quilted baby play mat.

The little bee is in format of a toy have a close look at it. 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. Fold your main fabric into fourths. Take one piece of fabric and fold it in half three times so that it is in eighths.

Tape the parchment paper together to make one big sheet. The idea of play mats is to keep them simple. The 3 year long story of the diy baby play mat quilt. Place the trim on the edge so that it conceals the seam line and stitch to the edge of mat.

I was thinking that this quilt could have many different uses. The kiddos need a bit of space for their own dudes ships and anything else that jumps into their minds. 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. Making a simple padded play mat 1.

This will be the visible part of the play mat so choose. With wrong sides together pin the edges of the feature fabric and the quilted backing fabric together. Similarly rabbits ears are stitched from the bottom and free from the ground fabric. Great project for beginners.

Cut out your circle with fabric scissors. Straight grain binding tutorial. Draw an arc on the. Next fold it again this time left to right.

Place your circle template on top of your layers. I usually cut 3 feet of parchment paper 3 times and tape. Cut your main fabric into a 44 inch 112 centimeter square. Don t over accessorize them.

It is stitched to a thick thread to the flower so that the baby can play with it. Fold it in half top to bottom first. Then use your measuring tape to. To keep it a bit more interesting make the larger islands and planets go off of the edge of the play mat.

Stitch a small seam around the edge and overlock or if you have a four thread overlocker simply overlock the edge. Pin the circle in a. Place your batting in between your fabric pieces with the right sides of the fabric facing out. Use your parchment paper to make a 34 wide circle template i use the folded quarters method to make large circles.

Make the circle template by using the folded quarter circle tutorial here.