DIY baby clothes - patterns

The birth of a child is a joyful and long-awaited event for each parent. Usually, many moms and dads begin to make wardrobe for their baby in advance. Today on the shelves you can choose things for every taste and budget, because the range of ready-made children's clothing is huge. But still, all parents want something special for their baby, and besides, children's things are not so difficult to sew. Therefore, more and more often, newly minted mothers are thinking about how to sew clothes for newborns with their own hands - it is very easy to make patterns for a baby's undershirt or panties. Now we will see this with you.

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We make a personal set

In search of the most necessary things for the baby, you can spend a lot of time, and future mothers, especially in the last stages of pregnancy, long walks to the shops do not bring much pleasure. Therefore, you should make a list of clothes for the newborn in advance and see what you can do with your own hands.

So, the baby will need:

• 2 sets of bed linen (sheet, duvet cover, pillowcase);
• the envelope;
• diapers;
• 1 diaper with a hood for bathing;
• hats are thin and warm;
• vests;
• several handkerchiefs;
• a small cotton diaper, about 60x60, folded 4 times - put on the mother’s hand under the baby’s head so that the baby’s hand and skin do not sweat during feeding.

You can also add a few more items to this list:

• sliders, panties;
• bib, if a young mother does not have enough milk and has to be fed from a spoon;
• jumpsuit for walking.

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Material for clothing for newborns

DIY sewing for newborns is a very interesting and fascinating activity. Before you start creating clothes for newborns with your own hands, pay attention to the materials. The skin of the baby should breathe, and its sliders or vest should not cause irritation or allergic reactions.

It is better to opt for the following options:

• As underwear for newborns, it makes sense to choose natural materials - cotton, linen, calico.
• Particular attention should be paid to insulated fabrics - bike, flannel, terry or footer.
• Wool, as another natural material, can also be used. But do not forget that it can cause allergic reactions, so it is better to use it with a lining.

Important! Also today there are many modern synthetic fabrics that are not inferior in nature to natural ones. They may well be suitable for clothing for newborns. But still, such materials are best left for older children.

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Useful Tips

Clothing for newborns with their own hands should be quite loose and not restrict movements. Also note that in a child up to 2 months, the arms are badly unbent and it will be difficult to put a blouse over your head.

There are a couple more nuances:

• When choosing a color, give preference to calm pastel colors that will not irritate either the child or you.
• The printed fabric in this case could be called ideal. But keep in mind that you will have to wash clothes for newborns often.And if the coloring is not very durable, then the undershirt will quickly become worthless and lose its colorfulness.
• A variety of ruffles, rhinestones, and lace should not be sewn onto clothes for babies. Ribbons and beads are pleasing to the eye, but they are not needed on infant clothes.
• Use buttons, not buttons, for fastening. The loops tend to stretch quickly, especially on knitted clothes. But the process of buttoning vests and overalls on buttons will become quite laborious.
• One more tip - don't get carried away. Children quickly grow out of their clothes, and two dozen lovingly sewn new clothes of the same style and size the baby simply does not have time to wear. You should not sew many things for the future.

Important: The baby’s skin is very thin and traumatic. Therefore, it is worth choosing thin threads for sewing, and even better to make clothes for newborns with stitches out.

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We sew a diaper

Before you start sewing clothes for newborns with your own hands, do the simplest thing you can think of. Create a diaper for your baby:

• It is a rectangle measuring 90 by 120 cm or 80 by 110 cm.
• For thin take a fabric such as chintz or calico.
• Thick diapers are sewn from a bike or flannel.

Important! For the first time, 10-12 diapers will be quite enough for you. You can make equal proportions, but it is better to prepare more thin ones than dense ones.

Special knowledge or skills for their sewing will not be required:

1. Using chalk, pencil or a thin bar of soap, draw the fabric into rectangles of the sizes you need.
2. Cut the rectangles.
3. Process the edges of the fabric on the overlock or on a regular machine with a zigzag seam.
4. If there is no machine at hand, then overcast the edges manually so that the fabric does not crumble.
5. It is worth noting that the edges of the diapers do not bend or bend so that the seams do not rub the skin of the baby.

Important! Before using the product, it must be washed and ironed.

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Diaper with a hood

Another option for clothes for newborns with their own hands, life-size patterns for which are not difficult - a diaper with a hood for swimming. We will analyze this option in steps:

1. Make a rectangular blank for cloth diapers.
2. Round one of the corners.
3. Apply another piece of fabric to the rounded corner, smaller in size.
4. On the segment also round one of the corners, repeating the contours of the main canvas.
5. Then, based on the size of your child’s head, determine the size of the future hood.
6. On the opposite side of the rounded corner, cut the material in a straight line.
7. Treat the straight line that will frame the baby’s face with a thin cotton oblique trim or on the overlock.
8. Overlay the edges of the diaper in one seam and sew the hood.

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We sew a cap for babies

From the very first days of birth, the baby needs a bonnet. The material, like any other, must be washed and ironed before cutting so that it shrinks. Before you sew clothes for the newborn with your own hands, patterns must be prepared.

For work, we need standard measurements, each child up to a year, they can be different. For example, we took the averaged values:

• cap length - 16 cm;
• cap width - 12 cm;
• bottom length - 12 cm;
• bottom width - 5 cm.

Building patterns for free:

1. We take a sheet of paper, in the upper left part we draw a right angle. Its top will be point A.
2. Then we need to make the length of our base. For this, it lays 16 cm from point A down. This will be point A1.
3. The width is drawn as follows. From the top of the corner, from A to the right, lay 12 cm. This will be point A2.
4. Our bonnet at the top will be wider than at the bottom. Therefore, from point A1, set aside 13 cm to the right. This will be point A3.
5. Now connect the points A2 and A3.
6. Next, from point A3, you need to measure up 1 cm, it will be point A4.
7. Connect the points A4 and A1.

Now we are building the bottom of our future bonnet for the newborn:

1. First, denote the length of the bottom. Again we draw a right angle, its vertex will be the point O.
2. From it we postpone 12 cm down. This will be point O1.
3. Now from the point O count to the right 5 cm. This will be the point O2.
4. Set aside 5 cm from point O1 to the right, mark point O3. This will be the width of our bottom below.
5. Draw a straight line between points O2 and O3.
6. Divide the OO2 line into 2 equal parts. The middle will be designated as point O4.
7. From point O2 down, lay 3 cm and get point O5.
8. Again, from the point O2 according to the bisector of the angle, count 1.5 cm. This will be the point O6.
9. Now connect the points O4, O6, O5 with smooth lines.

Cut

Details of the future headgear for the newborn are cut out without allowances for seams. They are already taken into account when constructing the pattern. Therefore, after wet-heat treatment of the fabric, we do the following:

1. Fold the material in half, face inward, iron it with an iron.
2. We apply our pattern to the obtained bend, a pattern of the base of the bonnet with points A and A2.
3. We also apply the details of the cap bottom to the bend.
4. Carefully cut out the details.

Sewing:

• The side parts of the product must be sharpened to the middle part.
• If the fabric is not soft enough, the seams are best done outside.
• A strip of ribana needs to be cut out with a width of 5-6 cm, having previously measured the side of the cap and having taken away 2 cm.
• Fold the strip in half and slightly stretch to grind to the side of the bonnet.
• The same strip should be sewn along the lower edge, leaving 10 cm for ties on each side.

Important! The seams of this clothing for a newborn can be decorated with frills or gathered lace.

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Sew the undershirt

Our article on how to sew clothes for a newborn with your own hands patterns would be incomplete if we did not talk about how to create a baby's undershirt - the main part of a baby’s wardrobe.

In order to make a basic pattern, we need the following measurements:

• width ½ of the shelf - 14 cm;
• sleeve length - 15 cm;
• neck depth, standard values ​​are usually taken - 1 cm for the back and 5 cm for the shelf;
• ½ width of the lower part of the sleeve - 11 cm;
• product length - 30 cm.

We took averaged values ​​as the basis of clothing for newborns with our own hands. In your case, they can change up or down.

Building patterns

The front and back of the future product are different from each other. The rear armhole is higher, the front is lower; moreover, 5 cm is added to each shelf in the middle of the front for smell. To build a basic pattern of clothes for newborns with their own hands, we need a large sheet of paper. If you plan to use the pattern constantly, then it is better to take a dense base, for example, whatman.

Then we take the following steps.

1. In the upper left part of the sheet, draw a right angle.
2. From the center of the corner - point A - lay down the length of the future vest, 30 cm. Point A1 appears.
3. From the center of the angle, lay the sleeve length horizontally to the right. This will be point A3.
4. From point A3, we lay down ½ of the width of the lower part of the sleeve vertically downward, in our case it is 11 cm. This will be point A4.
5. From point A1 we put ½ the width of our product, this is 14 cm. Point A5 is ready.
6. Further from point A5 we draw a vertical line, from point A3 we draw a horizontal line to the right, connect these lines and get point A6. This will be the armpit of our product.
7. Then at point A we make the neck of the back.
8. By the same principle, we build a shelf of the product. The neck will be deeper, and do not forget to add 5 cm to the middle of the product by smell.

Important! If after a while the clothes for newborns with their own hands become small, then you can use the same pattern. It is only necessary to transfer the template around the contour when transferring it to the fabric, departing from the borders of the workpiece by 2-3 cm. It may also be necessary to slightly expand the neckline, depending on the physique of the baby. As a rule, the neck is made wide enough so that the tissue does not rub the baby’s delicate skin.

Sewing

Before you start sewing clothes for newborns with your own hands, transfer the template to the fabric. It is better to fold the fabric in half, as the details are symmetrical. Seam allowances are not necessary.Next, perform the following steps:

1. With the wrong side inward, fold the back and the shelves and chop them with pins.
2. Chop all the parts.
3. Sweep the upper seams of the sleeves, then the side seams.
4. Neaten the lower sections of the vest with the neck and front sections of the shelves.
5. All seams must be ironed.

Do-it-yourself indispensable clothes for newborns!

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We sew sliders

The sliders are also needed in the first months of the baby's life, but they must be of high quality. You can be sure of this if you sew them with your own hands.

Building patterns

As you already understood, for clothing for newborns patterns without measurements can not be done. For the sliders we need:

• The distance from the shoulder of the baby to the foot.
• The distance from the armpit to the foot.
• Leg length.
• Height. If you put on the sliders on the diaper, increase the length of this line by 3 cm, and reduce the length of the leg by the same amount.
• The width of the leg below, for ease of dressing.
• The width of the sliders.
• The length of the foot of the baby. 1 cm must be added to this measurement so that the leg is not cramped.

Important! For babies with chubby legs, they also measure the width of the leg in the upper part so that it is not narrow.

When cutting the sliders, be sure to add allowances:

1. Seam allowance of 0, 2-0, 5 cm, depending on the type of processing;
2. If necessary - add an allowance “for growth” of 7 cm;
3. If you wish, add an allowance for a loose fit of 2.5 cm if you are sewing from a stretching fabric, and 4 cm if the fabric does not stretch badly;
4. If you will be sewing on an already finished pattern, be sure to compare it with the sizes that you have (it is possible that it has already taken into account allowances for free fitting and outgrowth).
5. When cutting the sliders, place them along the shared thread.

Important! If you already have ready patterns of a baby undershirt and trousers, then you can use another method. Align the two products along the waistline, compare with the measurements, adjust, and the pattern of the sliders is ready.

If there are no skills to build a pattern, it is enough to tear apart the old sliders and increase them to the desired size, if necessary. Or download ready-made patterns of clothes for newborns with your own hands from the Internet and tailor them to your standards.

Sewing:

1. Make a line along the bottom of the shelf of future sliders, backing away from the edge of 0.5 cm.
2. Gently pulling one of the ends of the threads, make an even assembly to the length of the lower part of the front.
3. Sew the gathered top to the bottom.
4. Repeat with the backs of the product.
5. Sew a gusset to the front half.
6. Make a step seam while sewing the second side of the gusset.
7. Connect the front and back of the product along the side seams.
8. Connect the feet to the toes and stitch to the sliders, slightly picking up the sliders along the toe.
9. Treat the edges of the seams.
10. Treat the upper slice of the sliders with an oblique trim or piping.
11. On the front straps, loop.
12. Sew buttons to the back of the straps.

Important! If you want to make the usual pants for your baby, then all these measurements are also suitable, only the length of the product should be taken not from the shoulder, but from the waist. Do not forget to add a few centimeters to the hem under the drawstring for an elastic band for clothes for newborns with your own hands.

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Sew scratches

The wardrobe of your mod or fashionista will be incomplete if you do not scratch. These do-it-yourself baby clothes perform not only a decorative, but also a protective function. When your baby begins to actively move his hands, scratches will protect delicate skin from cuts with their own nails.

They are sewn very simply, like small bags:

1. Put the baby’s straightened palm on a piece of paper, lightly connect all the fingers and draw the outline of the mittens around the baby’s brush.
2. Add 0.5 cm over the entire contour so as not to hamper the movements of the child’s hand and fingers. This is the so-called allowance for freedom of fitting.
3. To the place where the wrist is, add 2-3 cm.
4. Cut 2 pieces of fabric, do not forget to slightly increase the length.
5. Sew the parts together on the front side of the overlock.
6. Work the bottom of the fabric, make a hem on the front side of the product, like a drawstring.
7. Insert the elastic into the resulting drawstring. Its length should not be too long, otherwise - the scratches will fly off your hands, and should not be too small, otherwise - the elastic will pull your wrist, which is dangerous for health.

Important! By the same principle, you can make mittens for walking. Only in this case, choose a denser, warmer material. A fleece is perfect for these purposes - it does not let the cold through, retains heat and is very pleasant to the touch.

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As you have seen, do-it-yourself baby clothes - Not so difficult. Even for mothers who understand little about needlework. The most important thing is to correctly measure the baby to create a pattern and do not forget about allowances for seams and freedom of fitting. The main advantage of such clothes is its uniqueness. Having created the basic patterns, you can sew several sets of different colors and alternate them at least every day. In addition, such things can significantly save the family budget.