I’ve been working on putting the magazine together, so I hadn’t been posting any tutorials. I thought it might be fun to re-visit some oldies but goodies. I’ve got a lovely list of Tutorials planned for you after the magazine is safely off to the printer! But for now, I hope you will enjoy this one:

**This tutorial assumes intermediate sewing ability***

This little stacker would make a nice gift, or addition to your nursery. I whipped this up without a pattern, from scraps, in about 2 hours.

Materials:

1 yd 54″ wide fabric
baby sized hanger
9″x12″ cardboard (back of notepad works great!
thread to co-ordinate

Instructions:

1. Lay out your hanger on a doubled piece of fabric and cut around the ’shoulders’, making a seam allowance of approximately 5/8″. Make sure to leave a small ‘neck’ approximately 5/8″ tall.

2. Cut a length of fabric 22″ long by 54″ wide for the body of your stacker.

3. Cut two pieces of fabric approximately 10″x13″ for the bottom of your stacker.

4. Press down the ‘neck’ of the ’shoulder’ piece and hem on a machine.

5. With right sides facing, sew each side of the shoulder piece, from the bottom edge to the neck edge, pivoting at the corners and leaving neck open. Clip corners. Turn.

6. Turn right side out and press.

7. On body piece, turn each each selvedge edge 2-1/2″. Hem.

8. Take up body piece and make three box pleats as follows: One pleat measuring 5-1/2″ at CB, and 2 pleats measuring 3-1/4″ where the body will join shoulder seam.

9. With right sides facing, attach body to shoulder piece, matching side seams and CB. Trim bulk as necessary. Turn right side out and press.

10. With WRONG SIDES facing, take up bottom pieces and sew around three sides. Insert cardboard, sew fourth side.

11. Matching CB with the center of one long side of bottom, attach body to bottom using 5/8″ seam and clipping corners as you go. Pink seams, or use serger, keeping close to cardboard. Turn out.

12. Front edges will overlap considerably. This will prevent the diapers from falling out the front!

Of course, you might like to add emboidery, appliques, ribbons, etc. Make it your own! Send me photos of your finished stacker and I’ll post it here.

We keep our stacker on the back of the bathroom door - most convenient!

Posted: 10|31|07 at 7:16 am. Filed under: from our hearth and home, from the nursery, from the sewing room, Tutorial.
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