Monday, April 18, 2011

Baby Crafts: Stuffed blocks for baby S




I'm slowly getting through some of the crafts that I started while pregnant.
One of the easiest and fastest one is from the book Sweet Booties!: And Blankets, Bonnets, Bibs and More by Valerie Van Arsdale Shrader. I just used some scrap fabric leftover from other baby projects. You just cut out six squares that are four inches on a side.  I used three different fabrics and cut out twenty four squares, eight of each fabric, to make four blocks.
Sew right sides together of two fabrics with 1/4 inch allowance and continue until you get a strip of four.

Sew last two fabrics on bottom of the strip of four to make a "T" shape.  Leave a 1/4 inch spot on top that you will later pivot and sew to start shaping the block.


Take one of the fabrics on the "T" and align it with closest fabric (for this block it is the adjacent trees fabric).
  
After aligning fabric sew 1/4 inch allowance seam to end of square but stop 1/4 inch before edge.  Pivot and align the square with the adjacent square.
Keep sewing and pivoting until you have sewn all sides but one.  That open side you will use to stuff the block.

After you have sewn all the sides to make a block turn the block inside out so the right side of the fabric shows.  Use  a pointed object to push out corners.

Stuff the block and then slip stitch the opening closed.


Can't wait for baby S to be old enough to enjoy them!



3 comments:

  1. Ashley! Love your blog and I am so excited to read all the updates. Plus I really want to make these blocks! I've never considered myself to be a crafty person, but this looks easy enough with your step by step pictures (because I don't read too good). Tell me how baby S likes them when he is old enough to use them, and I will make them for my baby O!

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  2. Hi! We can make the blocks together when you come visit :)

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  3. I'm officially inviting myself to come too even though my baby might be a little old for those. Sounds like a party!

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