EASY NO-SEW FLEECE CRIB RAIL COVERS
Baby chewing on the rails of his or her crib? Make these easy, no-sew fleece crib rail covers to protect the crib and your baby's teeth!
Equipment
- Rotary cutter optional
- Quilting ruler optional
- Cutting mat optional
Ingredients
- fleece Strip for each rail (the width of the bolt of fabric should be wide enough for any crib). See measurements below.
Instructions
- First, you're going to need to take the following measurements for each rail:
- You'll also want to know if your crib side starts on a slat or an opening. The front of this crib starts on an opening (like the diagram above), but the sides actually have a slat at the beginning.To find the height of your strip of fleece, take the height of the crib rail (yellow) and double it. Then add 11". This crib rail was 2.5" tall So: 2.5" x 2 + 11 = 16". This left 5" of fleece for each tie, which was plenty for double knotting.Next, take your strip of fabric and cut it to the length of the crib rail (blue). This one is 51" long.The slat openings (green) are 2" while the slats themselves (pink) are 1.75". Starting at one end of your strip of fleece, measure in the width of your slat opening (green) and draw a dot 5" from the top and 5" from the bottom. For this project, that was 2" but it will be different depending on your own crib.
- Using your scissors or your cutter and ruler, cut from the bottom edge to the dot, and then do the same from the top.
- Then measure in from the cut, the width of your slat (pink) (1.75" for this project). Make two more dots, 5" from the top and 5" from the bottom and cut.
- Then cut that "flap" out of the middle of the two cuts.
- Then continue that pattern down the length of your strip of fleece. Slat opening width (green), slat width (pink). Slat opening width, slat width.
- Once you've worked your way down to the end of your fleece, you're done! Drape the fleece over the rail and knot each set of flaps under the rail. You can double knot each of the ties to keep them from coming undone.
