The Jungle Book Nap-time Fun Cot Sheet

Your preschooler will love his personalized Disney Jungle Book cot sheet. At rest time, he will imagine himself swinging through the jungle with Mowgli and his beastie pals under the blazing Africa sun. While studying the charming Jungle Book characters and remembering his own adventure in the picture pocket, he soon will catch 40 winks --or hopefully at least lie quietly. With your Brother sewing and embroidery machine(Opens in a new tab)
, exclusive iBroidery.com designs(Opens in a new tab)
, some fabric and a few notions, you can create this kid-pleasing cot sheet. Machine embroidered cot sheets are great auction items for school fundraisers. Make a few ahead and personalize them with a name after purchase. This cot sheet is heavily embellished. But it can be your blank canvas for more or fewer designs and varied fabrics. Any finished 24" x 47" piece with elasticized corners will do.

Materials:

• fabric: sky: (2) 23" w x 24" selvage
• Savannah grass: (1) 26" x 27", (4) 2 ½" w x 27" L
• yellow/gold gingham check: (2) 3" x 23"

iBroidery 4 x 4 frame designs:

• DJB201601 Jungle Book Buddies(Opens in a new tab)
  
• DJB201602 Baloo, the bear, dancing(Opens in a new tab)
  
• DJB201603 Shere Khan, the tiger(Opens in a new tab)
  
• DJB201604 Hathi, the baby elephant(Opens in a new tab)
  
• DJB201605 Bagheera, the black panther(Opens in a new tab)
  
• BIC-ATGNOA17 Sun(Opens in a new tab)
  

iBroidery 5 x 7 frame designs:

• BRO-JGL016 Kaa and Mowgli(Opens in a new tab)
  
• BRO-JGL017 Baloo and palm tree(Opens in a new tab)
  
• BIC-MTGBAB002 ladybug(Opens in a new tab)
  
• 331012 Dieffenbachia(Opens in a new tab)
  
• 331015 Corn stalk greenery(Opens in a new tab)
  
• 331004 Vine(Opens in a new tab)
  
• notions: 34" of ¼" elastic, 48" medium green rick rack, 18" small green rick rack, 3" x 4" clear vinyl, 48" brown piping, threads for embroidery and construction, tearaway stabilizer

TOP JUNGLE BOOK PANEL

1. Fold each sky fabric piece in half, each measuring 12" x 23". Fabric above the fold will serve as lining when embroidery is complete.
2. Mark line 1 ½" above and parallel to lower raw edges with washout marking pen. Embroidery designs must sit ½" or more above marked line.
3. Draw line ½" from each short side. This is the side seam allowance. Embroidery stitches must come no closer than ½" from the side of this marked line. The given placement measurements will keep the designs in proper position.
4. Mark 3 ½" square in each upper corner, against side seam allowance line. Draw diagonal line in each square as shown. This corner will be folded under along diagonal line in construction process.
5. Open folded piece and mark placement of designs on the lower half, with crease at top. The remaining half above the crease will serve as lining to cover the embroidery. Set second sky fabric piece aside.

Brother Machine Embroidery

1. Embroider designs as shown. Design centers are positioned as listed:

1. Jungle Book Buddies (DJB201601)--5 ⅛" from bottom line, 9 ¾" from left side line
2. Baloo dancing (DJB201602) 1 ⅞" from bottom line, 5 ⅝" from right side
3. Sher Kahn (DJB201603)--1 ⅝" from bottom line, 2" from left side
4. Hathi, Baby Elephant (DJB201604)--1 ½" from bottom line, 9 ⅝" from right side
5. Bagheera (DJB201605)--1 ⅜" from bottom line, 8 ½" from left side
6. Vine, top right (331004)--8 ¼" from bottom, 6 ⅞" from right side
7. Vine, top left, MIRROR IMAGED--(331004) 8 ⅝" from bottom, 7 ¼" from right side
8. Corn stalk greenery--(331015) 3 ⅜" from bottom, 4 ⅞" from right side
9. Sun (ATGNA017)--5 ⅜" from bottom, 9 ¼" from right side
10. Dieffenbachia greenery (331012) --3 ½" from bottom, 1 ⅞" from left side
11. OPTIONAL: ladybug extracted from BIC-MTGBAB002 sits on any leaf of Dieffenbachia, small yo-yo placed over sun

2. Press one gingham strip in half to measure 1 ½” x 23”.
3. Join folded gingham to sky embroidery with ½”seam allowance, right sides together and raw edges even. Baste top edge along fold to sky fabric for ease in applying rick rack.

4. Stitch 23” green rick rack over folded edge of gingham. Remove basting threads.

5. Seam Savannah grass 2 ½" x 24" to each side of embroidered sky fabric with ½" seam allowance.

BOTTOM JUNGLE BOOK PANEL

Embroidery

1. Create name file. When sizing the name, keep in mind that the two Jungle Book embroideries, Baloo and Kaa, will take up almost 6 ½". Though the piece is 23" wide, the embroidered width, including the name, should not exceed 22".
2. Mark the sides ½" from raw edge, bottom 1 ½" from raw edge, fold line 12" above bottom edge, and corners 3 ½" square, as top panel. Also mark center for name placement.
3. Embroider bottom panel and continue as on top panel: add gingham border, baste in place, stitch rickrack over folded gingham, add grass borders.
4. Apply memory pocket in chosen spot with straight stitch, leaving top open for photo insertion. Stitch very close to edge of vinyl. Take care not to overlap marked corner squares.
5. Stitch rick rack over vinyl edges.

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Construction

1. Press sky panel along fold line. Baste bottom raw edges together.
2. Stitch brown piping to gold gingham with ½" seam allowance. Sew through both layers of sky fabric.
3. Add piping to both top and bottom panel.

4. Stack top panel on body of cot sheet, right sides together. With contrasting thread as a guide, seam two pieces together. Serge or zig zag to clean finish seam.

5. Repeat with bottom panel. All three pieces are now joined.
6. Finish sides by folding raw edges ½" and then another ½” enclosing raw edge of side seam. Stitch close to folded edges.

7. Cut elastic into four 8 ½" pieces.
8. Press corner to underside, along diagonal line. Insert elastic into fold of grass border. Repeat on remaining 3 corners. With green thread, stitch in place, reinforcing the attachment.

9. Insert opposite end of elastic into fold of sky fabric. From right side, stitch just inside marked lines of square with matching blue thread. Repeat on remaining corners.

10. Rinse out marks and press.
11. Nap time!

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