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Suggestions and advice on how to make your own fitted crib or playpen sheets from the ThriftyFun community. Post your own experiences here.
Use Mattress As A Guide
I made sheets for my playpen for my first grandbaby this year. It isn't hard to do. I know it would be the same for a crib sheet. I bought bargain fabric about a dollar a yard, one pattern was winnie the pooh. You can use cotton or jersey knit. I laid my mattress on top of the fabric and then cut it about 8-9 inches longer than that to allow for the depth of the mattress. Then I cut a 4 in square from each corner using a template I made of cardboard.
Next, I sewed up each of the corners making them pocket corners. The next step is to make a 1/4 inch hem all the way around the sheet and when that is done take 4 pieces of narrow elastic, approximately 16 inches long, and zig zag one on each of the corner pockets. My suggestion would be to "experiment" with an old sheet when making the first one. Then you will have it made when doing the rest of them. Yeah, I know you can buy them cheaper probably but there is nothing more loving than making them yourself.
By Shelle
They are easy. Cut a fabric piece 8 inches bigger than your mattress on all four sides. Cut an 8 inch square out of each corner. Bring the two sides of the cut out side together and sew together. This will make your fitted sheet. If you want to get fancy, you can add elastic on the diagonal to hold the sheet down on the matress.
By Heather
Handmade Will Be Better Quality
Maybe they are cheaper at the Dollar stores. But they are also made cheap. Typically the fabric isn't much better than cheesecloth and it falls apart quickly. If you can take the short time it takes to buy a decent quality fabric, and make them, you'll do two things. One, you'll have a quality made sheet. Two, no one else will have one like it unless they bought the same material. Not to mention, when you buy the sheets made, you are paying for the name too.
By K
Thomas The Tank Engine Sheets
I have almost NO sewing abilities, and I wanted to make my son some Thomas the Tank Engine sheets, becasue they are almost $20 per sheet. Well, I went down to Wal-Mart after reading this and bought some fabric, $3.96 per yard, and made him 2 sheets. They are SEW easy! In the photo above, my son was jumping on the bed before I took this picture, that's why it's so wrinkled.
By Katie
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RE: How To Make Fitted Crib Sheets
The standard crib is 30" x 54". The standard crib mattress is 27 1/4" x 52".
The standard fitted crib sheet is 28" x 52". The depth of the sheet will vary depending on your mattress-- most are 4" to 8" deep.
RE: How To Make Fitted Crib Sheets
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Post By Sandra (Guest Post)
(01/04/2008)
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What is the size of a regular crib mattress? I'm wanting to make crib sheets but need measurements. Help Me Please.
RE: How To Make Fitted Crib Sheets
Help!!!! I am trying to make fitted crib sheets and they are not coming out right. I have ripped them apart 3 times now. I got the corners sewn together but what I am having trouble with is the elastic. I have tried to put it all the way around and in just the corners. For some reason the elastic isn't stretching. There is no way this sheet is going to stay on a bed. I stretch the elastic as I am sewing around the corners with a zig zag stitch. What am I doing wrong?!?!?!?
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Post By Park'sMom (Guest Post)
(06/24/2007)
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I also have very little sewing experience, and limited funds. I work at a fabric store, and I am making the fitted and flat sheets as well as using snuggle flannel to make my son's toddler bedding. It is easy and I encourage everyone to try it before going out to buy bedding. My son is quite pleased with his Elmo comforter and rocket ship sheets, and my husband and I are pleased with the money we saved.
Good Luck Parents!
RE: How To Make Fitted Crib Sheets
What about a Canopy Cover?
Now that the fabric is available for so many nursery patters, it would be less I think to make your own sheets, especially in a popular pattern.
When my kids were babies, eight years ago before a lot of popular patterns were available as yardage, I used sheets to decorate their rooms. I bought Classic Pooh sheets, several coordinating but different ones. I made café curtains, tied back and trimmed in white eyelet. I covered the rocking chair with it
The best was a Canopy Cover for my daughters crib. It was one of those things that was so expensive, but not even well made. Instead I cut the elastic out of a fitted sheet in the corners, fit the thing tightly over the canopy frame, it was the kind with bars across in several places arched, and the posters. I sewed eyelet ties to the corners and secured it around the posts with a bow (less than six inches for safety even way up there!) I then made ruffles out of the coordinating patterns, using the white eyelet as trim, and sewed them together in layers along the edges of the sheet forming the overhang for the canopy. The results were gorgeous. A very pretty calico almost affect with the three different coordinating fabrics that appeared other places in the room, separated by the rows of eyelet trim.
The added bonus, was that now each of those patterns worked as sheets and accessories in the room, so when there was a sale on sheets or any accessories I had to buy, I had many more options. You shouldn't wash the sheets, leave the sizing in, wash very rarely in cold water. It also opened up my options in what patterns to use in the room. I would call it simple now, after the trial and error that I went through, but even with fabric, I would start off with that fitted sheet. Its the right size and the elastic in place holds its shape to the frame. With all fabric and trim out now, the possibilities are endless. It cost a fraction of what they wanted for a real one, and there was no comparison, there was much more to it. Plus, if I bought the store one, in one fabric print, I would have missed out on adding all those patterns to the room! I was happy with it, Im sure there are patterns out there, but I think even someone with marginal sewing experience could manage this one. Even if all you did was use the fitted/cut sheet and fused pre-gathered trim to the edges it would be better than store-bought. Have fun!
RE: How To Make Fitted Crib Sheets
PERFECT timing! I needed some advice on making some sheet-type slip cover for an RV cushion. Thanks to all!
RE: How To Make Fitted Crib Sheets
I used the instructions from this website: http://www.bundlesoflove.org/sheetpattern.htm
I bought a set of double sheets, and made 4 crib sheets -2 from the top sheet, 2 from the fitted sheet -and then had pillowcases that matched when my son became a toddler.
I was able to get soft flannel crib sheets this way - it is hard to find them otherwise -and a color that matched my nursery scheme.
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