A canopy is a beautiful thing that emphasizes a baby crib, which is usually sold in stores together with the product. Today, you can sew it yourself. What is a canopy, is it needed in a child's room, how to sew the product correctly and how to sew a canopy for a baby crib with your own hands below.
Purpose
A canopy is a device that consists of several pieces of fabric placed on a ring with a pole, fixed above the headboard of the bed. It was always placed in the nurseries of royal children. In the past, it was made with special luxury and scope. Thick velvet with gold tassels hung above the wooden crib, and tulle underneath. Today, crib manufacturers make it simpler. Its main purpose is to decorate the room, since it can perfectly fit into any interior. It is also needed to:
- protect the child from sunlight;
- protect your baby from insect bites;
- hide the child from prying eyes;
- protect the baby from drafts and dust.
Please note! Depending on what the structure is made of, it will perform certain functions.
Is a canopy necessary?
It cannot be said that a canopy for a baby crib is a necessary object. As a rule, light transparent tulle is not able to protect from sunlight, drafts and prying eyes. As for dust, if the accessory is not constantly washed with soapy water, it will act as its source. If it gets dirty during use and is not changed in time, it will also attract a large accumulation of insects. Therefore, its purpose can only be reduced to improving the appearance and fashion, because of which it is customary to decorate children's beds with such things.
Necessary tools and materials
Before you start sewing a canopy for the upper frame of a baby crib, you need to take fabric with scissors, a soft pencil, tailor's chalk, threads, needles and pins, a pattern and decorative fittings in the form of ribbons, lace and ruffles.
Please note! Additional fittings may also be required depending on the design of the future product.
Choice of fabric
The material should be of high quality, light and pleasant to the touch. It is desirable that the fabric perfectly passes oxygen and does not have the ability to electrify. Depending on the desired effect, the appropriate density is needed. As a rule, many mothers recommend stopping at translucent flowing fabrics, and in order to reliably protect the child from sunlight, they advise giving preference to denser materials. So, tulle with satin, chiffon, organza and silk are good for all purposes. To create density, you can take velvet. However, sometimes it leads to allergies and a lot of dust often settles on it.
Color scheme
Despite the fact that in the tsarist times, dense material of bright shades was used, today mothers prefer calm colors. The best are white, soft pink, soft blue, gray, beige and light yellow. Some prefer coffee, peach and lavender shades. Lace, various textile inserts in the form of hearts and flowers are used as a designer addition.
Thanks to calm shades, the newborn baby will calm down and fall asleep faster, and during awakening, bright colors will not irritate his eyes.
Please note! Interestingly, scientists also concluded that thanks to calm shades, the child’s psyche becomes balanced, he becomes more obedient and less emotional.
Pattern
The creation of the pattern directly depends on the size of the canopy. In the standard version, it is 2.5 meters by 1.5 meters. But if the finished product will have folds, it is necessary to add another 1.5 meters in width. It is also necessary to take into account seam allowances. You can make a pattern by tracing a paper pattern with chalk or pinning it with needles. The skirt should be no more than 60 centimeters long. It can be made from fabric strips folded in half. The product is made from a whole piece of fabric. There is no seam in the middle.
Master class on sewing
When forming a pattern, all the parts need to be sewn together. First of all, the bottom and side fabric sides need to be processed. When adding lace or satin ribbon to the product, you need to sew the tape immediately after processing the edges, since after the skirt is attached, this procedure will be more difficult.
For a canopy with a skirt, you need to take a wide fabric strip and sew the main hanging fabric into it. Next, you need to distribute the seam so that it is closer to the top. To do this, you need to iron the fabric so that the seam with the fastening of the main material is closer to the top. The skirt should be 15 centimeters wide and up to 60 centimeters long. Finally, you need to secure the product in a ring.
Mounting options
You can secure the homemade structure using a plastic or metal hoop, a sewing frame, or a special holder. You can also hang the system from the ceiling, from the wall with fabric loops, or from the crib if it has protrusions for the fastening system.
Please note! If desired, you can buy a special holder for the children's room or make it yourself from wooden blanks, a horizontal rod. There is an option for attaching the canopy to the ceiling cornice.
Decorating
Supplementing the topic of how to sew a canopy for a baby crib according to the master class, it should be noted that decorating a canopy is perhaps the most interesting activity for parents to create not only a unique product, but also an attractive one. According to the pages of fashionable furniture magazines, the best decoration for such a device is a colored skirt, bows made of satin summers, satin or lace braid at the ends of the product and various hanging fittings in the form of plush hearts or pompons. No less interesting and stylish are the options where the skirt resembles a circus tent or where the fabric is complemented by various textile patterns.
Please note! It is important to understand that you can decorate it only with those decorative inserts that cannot harm the baby.
A canopy is an elegant piece of furniture that can only decorate a baby's crib. It does not play a special role in a child's sleep. Whether it is needed in a child's room or not, each parent decides for themselves. It can be made from any fabric and using any sewing technique, observing the basic rules for creating a product. Decoration is possible using ribbons, embroidery, rhinestones and other accessories.
