If you are planning to gift a diaper bag on the occasion of a baby shower or generally then you can always make it special by adding a personal touch. This you can do by simply doing some embroidery on that particular diaper cover. Besides, diaper bags make very useful and nice baby presents and those that are embellished with embroidery are especially liked be the mums.
To embroider a diaper cover you must try to find out the name of the baby as you can embroider the diaper bag with it. Or you even have the option of embroidering the diaper bag with sweet phrases such as, “Little Angel”, “Daddy’s Princess” and so on. You can also pick up cute appliqués as well as buttons which are readily available in the market for embellishing the diaper bags alongside the embroidery.
For doing embroidery on a diaper carrier you will need the following:
- An embroidery needle
- Embroidery threads of different colors
- A pair of scissors
- Pencil/ tailor’s chalk
- Ruler
- Tracing paper
- Embroidery hoop
- Snippets of fabric, appliqué or even colorful ribbons will do.
With the ruler and tailor’s chalk draw a line at the back of the fabric lightly. Then write the name of the baby or some phrase on it. You must ensure that you write it in the center of the fabric. For all other designs, if you are not a very good artist then you can also get books of embroidery patterns. You can easily trace the design of your choice on the tracing paper. With the help of tailor’s chalk carbon copy it on the fabric of the diaper bag or simply attach the paper with the design on to the fabric. Put the fabric with the design into an embroidery hoop.
Next you should decide how thick you want the embroidery thread to be. The embroidery threads generally have six strands, so you can use all six of them for your embroidery or three, or two of them or any other variation that you like. Take out as many strands of a particular color as you desire of a length that you can handle and cut it with the scissors.
Put the embroidery thread in the eye of your embroidery needle and knot it at the tip of its end. Make sure that the knot remains on the inside of the fabric of your diaper bag and not on its surface. With this you begin to embroider the fabric of the diaper bag that is with the design in the embroidery hoop.
The daisy chain stitch goes well with the flowers and the leaves in your design. Whereas, for embroidering the baby’s name or flowers’ stem it is advisable utilize the stitches that are called whipped back.
Start with the embroidery of the baby name of the phrases whichever you have chosen to embroider on the diaper bag. Then embroider the leaves and flowers. You also have the option of sowing flowers made from fabric pieces, appliqué or even ribbon. Be as creative as you want to be and use different kinds of embellishment along with the embroidery.
If the baby is a girl then embroider flowers as well as leaves on the diaper bag and dot it with a couple of French knots. While for baby boys you could embroider either balls or blocks containing the letters of their name or the phrase you wish to embroider on the diaper carrier. In fact, you can always experiment with various stitches as well as design while embroidering the diaper bags for the babies.
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