Are you like me and have a special stack of pretty fabric that you can’t bear to cut into? Especially that soft stuff like flannel, shot cotton, or double gauze? knits even? That’s the story behind these fabrics. I just could not make myself cut them apart into pieces. They look too amazing as one uncut piece. The solid color shot cottons were too soft and cozy to make into anything other than these happy lap duvets.
I’ve made this Purl Soho lap duvet project before, with baby seal double gauze. Natalie loves it still. So when I was making room in my fabric shelf I pulled out these pieces to make into a couple lap duvets in hopes of gifting them to a couple upcoming babies. I so badly want to keep these to myself, but I think they’re going to be the perfect gift. I was surprised how quick they were to make. I remember the tacking taking quite a bit of time last time around. It went really quick thanks to the auto thread cutting feature on my sewing machine. And I was able to use up smaller pieces of wool batting scraps I had from other projects.
I might just have to make a few more – just thought of another baby that needs a gift! And divided baskets, too!
Pattern: Lap Duvet from Purl Soho
Fabrics: Kaffe Fassett Shot Cotton, floral from Drygoods Design,
Strawberry fabric by Kokka (they’re all a million years old!)
These look so cuddly! Those are some lucky babies! 🙂
my boys aren’t babies anymore but I bet they’d still want to snuggle these! so cute!
I know! I seriously want to keep one for me!! Even though we have so many blankets already. 🙂
gorgeous!! I have some of that strawberry print (the berries are all red though) that I turned into cloth napkins. Love to see my favorite fabrics every day!!
oh fun! Yes, I love cloth napkins, I should totally make some with the bits I have left over. 🙂
oh my they are wonderful. what type of batting did you use please .. the pattern says wool, my question is would wool wash and dry easily, shrinking?
Hi Helen, I used Quilter’s Dream Wool Batting, you can read more about it’s washability here: http://www.quiltersdreambatting.com/dream-wool.htm
thank you so much … off to checkout the batting 🙂
Hi Helen, I used the quilters dream wool batting to make one of these lap duvets shortly after Anna posted them the first time. It was for my toddler son so it’s been washed many times, and it’s held up well without bearding (I used double gauze) or separating (I tacked every 4-5″). He loves it and sleeps with it every night. When I’ve borrowed it, it’s nice and warm in the winter but breathes well in the summer. I recommend it!
Amy P. thank you so much for the additional information. thank you, thank you 🙂
Lovely! Such a great idea for those special fabrics.
Oh my! That strawberry fabric! I don’t blame you one bit, there’s no way I would have cut into that one!