On the list of things to bring to the hospital before mom and baby are discharged, there is usually a corner. This is a thin white diaper, one of the corners of which is beautifully decorated with embroidery or lace. The corner serves primarily to protect the baby's face and respiratory tract from too cold air.
You can buy a corner at a store that sells baby products. But it is not difficult to sew it. For work, you will need a thin white fabric - chintz, calico, but cambric is most suitable. In any case, the material must pass air well, so artificial fabrics are not suitable, no matter how beautiful they look. Think about how you will decorate the corner. Soft natural lace, sewing, embroidery look good.
Baby underwear must be sewn from natural fabrics.
You can cut the corner directly on the fabric. The size of the dressy diaper is exactly the same as the usual one. It is a rectangle 90x110 or 90x120 cm. It is best to process the edges with an overlock, but you can sew it in a zigzag or manually with a buttonhole stitch, placing the stitches tightly to each other. It is better to do without folds, so you do not need to leave allowances for the cuts.
Before cutting, it is better to wash the cotton fabric, or at least iron it with a hot iron through a damp cloth, otherwise the corner will decrease in size after the first wash.
Place the fabric on a table or floor. It is convenient to cut with the help of a tailor's meter and a tailor's square. A tailor's meter is a wide metal or wooden ruler, a tailor's square - 2 metal slats welded at an angle of 90 °. Set the length of the diaper along the hem. Draw a perpendicular to each mark. Set aside the width of the corner on the perpendiculars. Connect the end points. Cut out a rectangle. Round one of the corners.
Finish the edges. It is best to sew them with white sewing thread, but this is not necessary. A bright outline - red, blue, green, will look good, especially if you decorate your product with multicolor embroidery. Modern sewing threads usually do not fade, but still it is better to be convinced of this.
Baste the lace. You can sheathe the diaper around the entire perimeter, but this is also not necessary, it is enough to arrange a rounded corner and the sides adjacent to it. Lay the lace in small folds immediately. Stitch it with a simple machine stitch along the inner edge of the overcast.
For embroidery, it is better to use floss threads - they are soft enough and do not fade. The pattern can be beautiful and delicate. You can embroider with a light one-sided stitch. Such types of embroidery as cut or cutwork are also suitable. They not only decorate the product, but also improve breathability. Traditional patterns are flowers, stars, snowflakes, butterflies. The diaper has a fairly simple shape, so you can decorate it with embroidery after everything else is done. Transfer the design to the fabric in any way you can. It can be translated through carbon paper, which is now quite common in sewing stores. The spraying method is suitable, when punctures are made with a needle along the contours of the pattern, after which the sheet is pricked onto the fabric, and the contours are outlined with chalk or sprinkled with a rubbed lead. Hoop the fabric. For a simple surface, sew the outlines with a needle-forward seam. Fill in the gaps with long stitches, placing them close to each other. In each section, the stitches should run parallel, from one contour line to another. Lingerie for a newborn is a great excuse to learn how to embroider.
