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Making A Homemade Baby Gifts Basket

Making A Homemade Baby Gifts Basket

Baby gift baskets are among the most well-received gifts during baby showers. They are something that sure to wow any mom-to-be. Although there are plenty of pre-made baby gift baskets that are easy to purchase in the market, many people prefer to make their own version of baby gift basket at their homes.

Baby gift baskets are very easy to assemble. If made with care and thought, they can really be so stunning. If you wish to create one, you can use different shapes of baskets. There are baskets that have handles, while others don't. The size of the basket that you will use depends on how many you want to put into it.

The first thing you want to do is to think of the perfect theme for the basket. The whole gift would look more fun with a certain theme that could be a match of the the theme of the baby's nursery or the theme of the baby shower itself. There are plenty of themes to choose from, and you can be very creative to pull that theme off.

Once you already have a perfect theme in mind, you can then start looking for the right basket. The common baskets used are wicker baskets, but feel free to use other containers you want. The gift basket can look very unique with a toy box, baby wagon, diaper bag, baby bath tub, or laundry basket that holds gift items for baby.

Arrange the gifts you want to put into the basket by height. You can put cloth napkin or paper doily in the bottom of the basket to fill little spaces in between each gifts, and they can also mount shorter items. Make sure that breakable items are wrapped in cloth or tissue. Arrange tall items in the center and medium ones should be on the outside. You place all the small ones in between. For a sweet touch, you may wrap the gifts individually.

You can use cellophane if you want to wrap the basket. First, lay the cellophane nice on the table then place the basket in the middle of it. Gather all the short sides first then the long ones. Once you have grabbed them all together, secure them with a string or ribbon. The final touch is to put a nice bow, without removing the twist tie.

All the materials you will need to create a baby gift basket are usually available at craft stores. Cellophane is sold in a variety of colors and prints. You can use the clear one with a few touches of gold patterns, as it is versatile for any occasion. Ready-made bows are also available in many different colors and styles.

If you wish to personalized the gift basket, one excellent idea to consider is including personalized baby gifts, such as newborn clothing and baby blankets with the embroidered name or initials of the baby. Other personalized baby items you may want to include are engraved baby jewelry, personalized baby dishes, personalized stuffed animals, and etc.

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Personalized And Homemade Baby Gifts

Personalized And Homemade Baby Gifts

A baby shower is always a special occasion filled with happiness for both the parents and the guests. It's a celebration that marks the life of the unborn child. And what's a celebration of life without baby gifts?

While moms-to-be will surely appreciate practical baby gifts such as feeding bottles and other store-bought items, you might want to give her a gift that's unlike any of the stuff she's going to receive. You wouldn't want to be the one to give the mom-to-be her fifth bottle set, right?

A great way to make sure that you give out a unique gift that moms-to-be will surely love is to make them yourself or to personalize store-bought gifts.

Homemade Baby Gifts

A homemade gift is often based on your talents and skills, not to mention the extra time you have for making the gift. If you can crochet or knit and you have enough time before the baby shower, you might want to make a blanket or a set of booties and mittens. If you're good at making scrapbooks and other such things, you can make a special memory box or a scrapbook that the parents can fill in with precious memorabilias after the child is born. Or, you can ask the mom-to-be if you can help out with the baby shower party favors. If you're good at baking, why not provide the cake for the baby shower?

Now, if you're not so good at any of these things but you still want to exert the effort at making a homemade baby gift, you need not worry. You can get one of those homemade baby gift sets that come with step-by-step instructions at your local baby store. Skill and talent are not so much as required in this case as patience is. You can also surf the net for various homemade gift ideas and instructions like decorated picture frames or photo albums and diaper cakes.

Personalized Baby Gifts

If you're not so sure of your skills and your ability to follow instructions and you don't have enough time to spare for homemade baby gifts, you can head out to a good baby store and pick out items that you can personalize. All it takes is a little imagination to turn a store-bought item into a personal and intimate gift.

Now, before you can personlize your gifts, you'll have to ask the mom-to-be the baby's gender, name (if the parents have already decided on one), and the theme of the nursery. Now it's important that you get the correct spelling of the baby's name.

Once you have all the information you need, you can go right ahead and shop for a blanket, bib-set, wash cloth set, or any baby clothing, and have the baby's name embroidered on them. You can also have personal slogans embroidered on the item like "Aunt (insert name)'s adorable niece", or anything else you might think of.

You can also get baby gifts such as decors for the nursery that can be personalized, like stuffed animals and even furniture. You can have the baby's name painted on the furniture. Just make sure that it blends well with the nursery's theme.

Sewing Project – How To Make Homemade Baby Bibs

Sewing Project - How To Make Homemade Baby Bibs

I just recently became a first time grandmother and have been enjoying the new little addition to our family. I am also an avid crafter and seamstress so I can often be found in my craft and sewing room creating some wonderful things for my friends and family.

With the new addition of the baby girl to our family, I decided I wanted to make some homemade baby bibs. I thought the process would be difficult, but once I got started...I realized how easy it was to create my own bibs for our grand-daughter.

Here are the supplies you will need:

1 pre-purchased terry cloth bib to use as a pattern
1 package of double fold bias tape (2 yard package), per bib
sewing machine
sewing thread
1/4 yard of cotton terry cloth fabric
Scissors
Miscellaneous sewing supplies

Note: If you really want to be frugal, you can recycle some old terry cloth bath towels for this project.

Lay your pre-purchased baby bib down on a piece of white paper and trace around the shape using a pencil, then cut out your paper pattern. Next, unroll your bias tape and cut off a piece of bias tape measuring 34" in length. Pin your paper pattern down onto your terry cloth fabric and pin into place. Cut around the paper pattern and then remove the pins. Cover and pin the bias tape around the raw edges of the sides and bottom of your bib, don't cover the neck area just yet.

Using your sewing machine, stitch the bias tape into place and fasten off. Cut another piece of bias tape measuring approximately 26" long. Attach the center of the bias tape to the center neck area of the bib, pin into place. (note: a piece of bias tape about 10" long is left at both ends of the neck edge for the ties.) Using your sewing machine, stitch around the neck opening so that you are attaching and covering the raw edges.

You can use your pre-purchased one as a guide on how it should be sewn.

Decorations: If desired, you can use 3/4" wide eyelet lace instead of bias tape in step one of the sewing, but you will still need to use a coordinating color of bias tape for the neck area and ties. You can embroider a name or nice design onto the front of the bib or purchase some cute iron-on applique's.