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does anyone have a pattern for a moses basket cover

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Gini · 25/06/2003 16:07

well, the above says it all really, I want to jazz up my moses basket as it is covered in satin stuff that is not my cup of tea.

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SoupDragon · 25/06/2003 16:11

Can't you take the satin stuff off, unpick it and use that as the pattern?

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Gini · 25/06/2003 16:13

mmmmm - hadn't thought of that - trouble is that I am not really that good at things like this (trying to teach myself!!) and the satin is better than nothing, which is what I could end up with!

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eidsvold · 25/06/2003 21:46

That would be so easy to do.. just get yourself an unpicker and way you go. Then lay the top over your fabric and cut around it. It would be wasy - strip for the side and then oval for hte bottom.

SoupDragon · 26/06/2003 08:24

I agree

Have a good look at the cover before taking it apart to work out how it fits together - make a sketch of it. It should be, as Eidsvold says, an oval for the base of the basket, a strip that goes round the inside sides and a looser, gathered bit that drapes over the outside sides. There may be some elsatic in there somewhere to hold it snugly on the basket.

Tell you what, if you're in the UK and you have a complete disaster, I'll sort it out for you! (see how confident I am that you'll manage it?! )

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Gini · 26/06/2003 11:07

Right, I am in the UK and I will hold you to that! Where do I get an unpicker from?

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princesspeahead · 26/06/2003 11:18

john lewis, only place to buy any haberdashery/sewing stuff these days.

official name is quickunpick.

very useful for sawing off other people's nametapes on second hand school uniform as well..!

hurrah for soupy I thought I was the only one who sewed anything these days

eidsvold · 26/06/2003 13:42

even cheaper and perhaps easier than JohnLewis ( only cause none close to us) - somewhere like tesco/woolworths I think I got my quikunpicker from
I am waiting to get some money together to buy a second hand sewing machine ( good one is back in Aus - not prepared to bring it to UK to then take it back to Aus) I have some brilliant patterns for clothes to sew for dd and myself!! Can't wait.

eidsvold · 26/06/2003 13:44

I fyou get really stuck - I could prbably draft a rough pattern from my moses basket for you.... it really is so easy - you will be able to do it no worries.

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Gini · 26/06/2003 14:03

thanks everyone, will pop down to woolies this afternoon... Watch this space

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Twink · 27/06/2003 14:46

Might be too late by now but I've got a pattern which you're welcome to have.

AliP · 30/06/2003 14:01

Gini
I had a similar issue and i did as the ladies above suggested even though I'm not the most cometant sewer in the world and it looks OK and wasn't too hard - it took me a weekend to do the baskety bit and I have to admit that i have not got round to doing the hoody thing.
I did get a set of instructions from a web search from one of the home type TV programmes - I can't find it at thh moment but it did make it more complicated than using a big piece of paper and copying the shape of the material i took off. I also changed any complicated bits like fold over flaps to openings and it looks great.

Good luck.

spikeycat · 02/09/2003 10:48

I have the same prblem as this - I have followed the advice here and have unpicked the cover and now don't know how to do the rest - HELP!!

Twink, can I have a copy of your pattern, it may be easier?

SoupDragon · 02/09/2003 11:27

Firstly, do you remember what all the pieces are and where they went?? Try to make a note/sketch so you don't forget. Then you pin the pieces onto your new fabric and cut them out and "simply" sew them together.

I imagine there will probably be some gathering as the base of the basket is narrower than the top. When you pin the side piece(s) round the base, pin it at the top, bottom and them midway between (ie 12 o clock, 3, 6 and 9). The pin it midway between these points etc etc. It helps to get the wider fabric gathered evenly round the base.

Does this make sense?? Probably not!

Twink · 02/09/2003 11:29

Sure Spikeycat, email me your details and I'll stick it in the post to you.

rainbow · 02/09/2003 11:35

Don't know if they still sell it but Allders had a pattern about 18 months ago and it was dead easy to do!!

Mum2Ela · 10/05/2004 14:08

Coming back to this, does anyone have a pattern I could have (to give to a local seamstress!) which doesn't have the frilly bit going down the side of the basket IYKWIM?

ps. did anyone manage to do their own cover?

Thanks.

x

corinnekay · 06/02/2005 16:58

Twink
Do you think you could let me have the instructions for making the Moses basket cover etc?
Many thenka

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