fawn&forest

Eliot is now eager to be in his "big boy bed" though I am not yet confident that he won't roll out! A guardrail was in order. The bright standard blue the guardrail comes in are quite unsightly and begged to be slipcovered. I feel safe covering the guardrail in fabric...guardrails usually  have mesh as to not pose suffocation to the child. Use your own discretion on this.

To create the guardrail "slip cover", I measured the length (taking into account seem allowances) and also the height, including both the inside + outside height of the guardrail, allowing extra for the hems. After cutting the fabric roughly down to size and hemming the top + bottom hems, I pinned the fabric, (right-side in) to the guardrail, tracing the curve of the guardrail onto the fabric. I pinned the fabric in place which gave a guideline of  where to sew.  From this point, I just went for it, sewing the slipcover together  with hopes I got it right the first time!!

After a few minor adjustments (ahem...) and about 30 minutes later, the guardrail slipcover was ready to be iron + put in place. The fabric? I bought it at an antique-ish type of store years ago. Someone had originally used the fabric as a valance. I took that apart and sewed it back together to create one big piece of fabric, which explains why it looks, well, pieced together. The plant pattern is fantastic, is fairly nuetral + heavyweight. 

And, thankfully was just enough to create a guardrail slipcover for my son's Kip Platform Bed.