Tutorial Bantal karipap or pillow for newborn

oh look, it has been a while since a wrote something about sewing here.
It has been a busy week for me because I and my partner need to handle some sort of new recruit and its kinda having me a little headache. Oh, I wonder how do my colleague manage to deal with me back then when I'm still in a new recruit phase. Haha

So, last week one of my junior during high school just delivered a baby boy and I thought it would be nice to me to make some simple sewing project for her and the newborn. It save a lot of money, giving me an excuse to escape from my daily routine and of course giving something for me to write on this blog. Hehe

Malaysian always prepare a set of mattress, head pillow and bolster for their newborn. But since the newborn head is so soft and normal design head pillow is said to make their head appear flat, some fella come out with the idea of bantal karipap.

It took me average one and a half hour to complete the whole project. :D 

So, here is how do i do my very own version of bantal karipap. Enjoy. 

The material that I use was :

1. Approximately 250g of 100% kekabu ( I would suggest you to use a poly fibre )

2. 1/2 metre of printed cotton fabric

3. A curve ruler 

4. A lot of pins

5. Thread, Scissor, Tailors Chalk

First of all, i draw a pattern using an A4 paper. I use an A4 paper because I realise that the size of newborn always lies between that size. But if you have any newborn pillow, you might wanted to measure them as a references.

1. Take a piece of a recycle A4 paper,

2. Fold them twice to find the centre of the paper.

3. Mark the creasing line both horizontally and vertically

4. With the paper fold into half, draw a curvy line like you were drawing a capital D.

5. Still folded into two, but using the centre point as a references, draw the same capital D pattern as well but with smaller dimension. I drew the letter about 2 inch away from the centre point.

6. Cut the super awesome pattern that you draw by yourself and enjoy the view. Haha

7. Place the pattern on a pre-iron fabric and cut them out. Be sure to have a 3/4 inch of seam allowance. I always leave a 0.5 inch of seam allowances but since this is my first time making this bantal karipap so better safe than sorry peep. Hehe

Mark the small letter D inside. We gonna sew along those mark line letter. I use a tailor chalks and having trouble to clean it later on. Use fabric pen if you have one, it is more easier to get rid of. hehe

tips : pre-iron the fabric will make your finish project appear more neat. dont be lazy! :D

8. Take some of the kekabu and spread them at the centre of the fabric like in the picture. Be sure that the kekabu were spread well enough around the small letter D area. The thickness of the kekabu should not be too thick nor too thin. If you not sure, press it with you finger and keep adding the kekabu until you no longer can sense the floor. Hehe

9. Stitch on the mark line (letter D) that we have mark earlier on step 7. After stitching at the centre, we can start to fill in the kekabu around the rest of the pillow. I have prepared some ruffle because i like it but forgot to snap a picture on how do I do it. (Next tutorial maybe?)

10. Before you fill in the kekabu, pin the seam allowance along the pillow to make your life easier later on.

tips : after pinned the seam allowance, iron it to make it look nicer

11. Starting from one end, fill in the kekabu while pinning the two pieces of fabric and the ruffle (in between) together before you gonna sew it using a sewing machine. If you were hardworking enough, you may hand stich it for temporary. but im not, :P

 12. Keep filling in the kekabu and finally you can sew them on using a real sewing machine. I dunno how to snap a picture while using a sewing machine, so I will only share the finish product here.

When you are done with the sewing, make sure all the remaing of the kekabu is clean off from the pillow. Newborn is too sensitve and you dont want them suffering from the kekabu remaining.

As for me, I use a dust off roller I bought from Daiso to remove all the kekabu remaining and place it on direct fan just to be double sure that my bantal karipap is not dusty for use.

tips : My mom said placing a kekabu finish project under direct sunlight will also help to remove all the dust.

Last but not least, find a super cute  supermodel just to be sure that your project is properly done.

So here is a picture of my neighbour son modelling my bantal karipap.

Look like i need to make one for him too. (modelling is expensive nowadays. hurm)

Till then peeps, do share with me if you have try this project.

Oh, this project make me realise that newbornsewing project is way really fun. I really enjoy making these bantal karipap and hope you enjoy it as well. 

I found this one tutorial and thought it might help as well :

http://auladcolors.blogspot.my/p/sewing-tutorial.html