Transformer blanket for newborns

When expecting a baby, people buy a lot of things. Often, this list includes a transforming blanket – a convenient invention for parents and a child, combining an envelope and a blanket. When choosing, future parents have different questions. We will answer all these difficult and not so difficult questions in this article.

Envelope for newborns

This blanket is a universal thing. It can also be used as a maternity hospital discharge envelope. How to choose the ideal option?

Transformer blankets can be classified by season.

• Winter. A warm option, designed for temperatures from -7 to -25 degrees. When buying, do not chase maximum insulation, count on a temperature of minus 7-15 degrees. If the frost is stronger, long walks are not recommended. And in case of severe cold, you can always warm the child with an additional blanket. The baby should not be hot.

  

• Spring-autumn or demi-season. Designed for temperatures from -5 to +10 degrees. When choosing, pay attention to the waterproofness of the outer material and the presence of a hood.

  

• Summer. A regular transformer blanket without insulation.

  

By size.

• 80 by 80 centimeters. For babies up to 3 months and up to 60-65 centimeters tall.
• 90 by 90 centimeters. Well suited for slightly older children. Up to a height of 75 centimeters.

Approximate algorithm for choosing a blanket for a newborn

1. Determine the season. You can use a transformable blanket until your baby reaches eight months. Calculate what seasons will be at this time based on the date of birth. If the baby lives through several seasons, you can find or sew a blanket with a changeable lining yourself, similar to an insulated duvet cover, where you can put different linings depending on the weather.
2. Don't forget about the weather in your region. Don't look blindly at the season.
3. Determine the size.
4. Choose hypoallergenic materials that are easy to wash and dry quickly.
5. When you first pick up your baby from the hospital, you want to choose a beautiful envelope. Don't be fooled by frills and bows that don't come off the blanket - it will be difficult to keep all this beauty clean. Instead, pay attention to ribbons and brooches. They look no less elegant and are easy to remove.

Materials

An important issue for choosing a high-quality and comfortable envelope is its material. Different materials are needed for insulation, the inner and outer sides. Important qualities for the inner side are softness, hypoallergenicity, durability, ease of cleaning, hygiene. Therefore, cotton fabrics are often used - satin, calico, flannel, knitwear. For the outer side, they choose heat-retaining hygroscopic fabrics that are difficult to stain and easy to care for - plush, fleece, velvet, wool, raincoat fabric. As insulation, the choice falls on materials with high air permeability, good heat retention, hypoallergenic and do not require dry cleaning - holofiber, fluff, silicone, synthetic padding, sometimes wool.

Fastenings and transformation mechanisms

There are several most common options for turning a blanket into an envelope.

• Lightning. The fastest transformation option, but the baby can get hurt on hard parts. In case of breakage, it is difficult to replace.

  

• Tapes. An aesthetic but long-lasting method. You can adjust the fixation and easily replace the tapes.

  

• Buttons, snaps. Takes an average amount of time, has solid parts. At the same time, they are reliable and easy to change.

  

  

The choice of mechanism for the envelope depends on many factors - the age and activity of the child, the amount of free time of the parents and the neatness of the baby.

DIY Transformer Blanket

Sewing a multi-tasking envelope for a baby is not a difficult task, it is enough to have basic sewing skills and a sewing machine to give your child a unique blanket. Sewing algorithm for a transforming blanket with a zipper.

1. Check that you have everything you need to sew it yourself: fabric for the top and inner layers, insulation, 40-50 cm elastic, 55 and 25 cm zippers, scissors, threads, pins.

   

2. Make patterns. They can be made directly on the fabric – there is nothing complicated about it. Mark rectangles 90 by 85 centimeters. The pocket pattern is a little more difficult to make. On the outer and inner fabric, draw a trapezoid with beveled corners. The bottom line is 45 cm, the top line is 50, with 2.5 cm on each side slightly beveled downwards. The height of the trapezoid is 25 cm.

   

   

3. Cut out the pieces. Three equal pieces for the envelope – outer layer, inner layer, insulation. Two equal pieces for the pocket – outer and inner layer.
4. Place the outer layer with the wrong side facing the insulation, pin and stitch several times, including along the edges.

   

5. Place the pocket pieces right sides together, sew them along the long edge, turn them inside out and iron.

   

   

6. Step back from the resulting seam a distance of a couple of millimeters greater than the width of the elastic band and stitch, creating a drawstring.

   

7. Insert the elastic into the drawstring, gather the fabric so that the trapezoid turns into a square, secure the elastic on the sides, leaving one and a half centimeters on each edge.
8. Sew the pocket on the sides, folding the edge inward, and securing the elastic at the same time. Cut off the excess ends.

   

9. Sew a pocket to the bottom edge of the previously sewn outer layer and insulation in the middle, stitching along the bottom and side edges of the pocket. Sew the side edges along a straight line, even if they seem rounded.

   

   

10. With the receiving piece face up and pocket side down, place the inner layer on top, wrong side up. Pin and sew together along the bottom edge.

    

11. Sew the sides of the separable zipper 50-55 cm on both sides. Starting from the bottom edge. First sew the zippers to the outer layer, then apply the inner layer, pin and sew on the machine. Sew the top edge on the machine as well, leaving a hole exactly in the middle the size of a small zipper when open.

    

    

12. Turn the blanket inside out through this hole.

    

13. Sew a small zipper. First to the outer layer, then to the inner layer, tucking the edges inward.

    

Your transforming blanket is ready!

What can be said about the transforming blanket in conclusion? It is easy to make, convenient to use. By choosing it correctly, you will provide your child with a happy infancy.

Video: DIY envelope (transformer blanket) for a newborn's discharge. Master class.

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