doll bassinet tutorial: part 2

Welcome to part two of the doll bassinet tutorial! 

I need to make my usual disclaimer to remind you that I am NOT a professional.  I truly make this stuff up, so if you are an amazing sewer, you will probably read this tutorial and cringe like crazy over all the things I do technically wrong.  I learned a lot from this first bassinet, and I actually made the second one very differently.  However, if I made another bassinet, I would probably go back to this method.  Please let me know if you have any questions.

Hop over to part one for a complete materials' list and instructions for the lining.

Here's what you do for the outside body of the bassinet:
1) Pin quilt batting to the wrong side of the outside body fabric.

2)  Quilt these batting and fabric pieces together however you want.  You could do diagonal crossing lines to make a diamond pattern or you could do fancy squiggly lines OR you could be like me . . . lazy and also very unskilled with a sewing machine which means you will just sew straight parallel lines every inch. ;)

3)  For a little pop of color I added a ribbon about a 1/2 from the top edge of the body piece.  You could sew it on with a fancy stitch or you could go my route: FABRIC GLUE . . . the best friend of a lazy crafter who happens to also have difficulty sewing narrow things. 

4)  Pin bottom of body piece (piece with ribbon attached at top) right sides together all around the bottom body piece.

5)  Sew around the edge where the body and the bottom meet.  Then pin and sew the opening where the two ends of the body piece meet up.  (In the picture below, you see the seem of where the two ends meet up on the right hand side of the picture.)  When you are done sewing, the piece will look like this:

6) Moving on to the outside of the hood . . . use the arch of the lining piece as a guide for the arch on the outside hood piece and the quilt batting for the hood.  Pin the batting to the wrong side of the hood fabric. 

7)  Quilt the hood and batting in the same way you did the body quilting.  I just did straight lines every inch.

8)  Make the hood for the outside the same way you made the hood for the lining.  Fold arch piece in half and pin the side opposite the arch. Pin along that edge about five inches.  Sew.

9) Take the opening between the last stitch of the 5 inch section and the fold and open it. Then flatten it so it is perpindicular (or makes a T) to the five inch section.  Pin and sew along edge. 

10)  Flip the outside hood piece right side out.  The back will look like this.

11)  Take the hood lining and place the hood lining over the outside hood piece MAKING SURE RIGHT SIDES ARE TOGETHER.

12)  Pin together along arched edge and sew.

13)  Flip right sides out.  I ended up putting a matching ribbon on the hood edge as well which I put on at this step (not pictured).

14)  Now comes the fun . . . seeing it all come together!  There are a few steps here that I don't have pics for because I got too excited to take pics.  I just wanted to get it done!

16)  Make sure outside body piece is right side out now, and insert lining into body piece so that the wrong sides of both piece are together.

17)  Tuck in and pin top edges of body piece and lining all around inserting and pinning straps and hood as you go.

18)  Top stitch all the way around the edge of the bassinet body.

Done! 

As I mentioned above, I finished number two bassinet, and I'm on to the blanket and pillow next which means that I . . .

craft on!

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