Hand make an organic-cotton fitted bedsheet

Big Sis A Loving Mother

Ethan just fell asleep beside me. I was wondering if I should take a little nap with him or I should make use of maybe a 2-hour free time to do something that I have been thinking to do.

OK, let's just do it since CNY is coming and I have been thinking to let Ethan sleep comfortably on a new 100% organic cotton bedsheet with car prints on the new year day!!

Let's see what we need to sew an organic-cotton toddler fitted bedsheet:

2 yards of organic cotton fabric (choose your Cherie's favourite prints!)

2 yards of 1/4" elastic

* Yard is the common unit of length used for fabric and textile.
1 yard = 3 feet = 36" (inches) = 0.9144 meters



How?

1. Cut a piece of fabric 65" x 40".

2. Lay the fabric flat. Cut out 6" squares from each of the four corners.

3. Sew up the sides of the corners with a 1cm seam allowance. See picture below. Finish the seams with a serger, or trim with zig zag scissors. But I will just leave it as it is :p

4. To make the casing for the elastic, fold over the edge of the sheet 1cm and press. Fold over another 1cm and press.

5. Sew around the edge of the casing, leaving a 2 to 4cm gap for the elastic. You can choose to sew the elastic all around the edges or leave the 2 longsides (28" each side) of the fabric undone. I chose the later as I did not have sufficient elastic :p

6. Mark the start & end points of the 2 elastic on the fabric.


7. Use a safety pin at the end of the elastic to thread it through the casing. Be careful not to get the other end of the elastic sucked into the casing.


8. Sew the 4 ends of the elastic at the  points you marked earlier, or match up and sew the two ends of the elastic together securely if you choose to sew elastic all around.


9. Sew up the 2 gaps.

While I was sewing the last piece of elastic, Ethan woke up from his nap. 

Standing behind my back with his hands around my neck, he patiently and curiously observed his mummy sewing up his bedsheet. He was happy to see so many cars prints on the bedsheet and kept saying, "Mama, car, car, car...".

And Tada....! He loves it! And that's the smile I want to see at the end of the day!