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T.G

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Posted: Fri Nov 19, 10 9:52 pm Post subject: Baby Cradle
Does anyone happen to have a pattern for a cradle as in the bed and drape? It's for this: Click to download file Cheers

T.G

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Posted: Sat Nov 20, 10 12:27 pm Post subject:
I'll take it as a no then

Dogwalker

Joined: 20 Mar 2007
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Location: Mid Wales

Posted: Sat Nov 20, 10 4:34 pm Post subject:
It's a lovely frame, think you'll have to make up a pattern for it. The closest I've seen is lining a moses basket type cradle.

Katieowl

Joined: 01 Jun 2006
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Location: West Wales

Posted: Sat Nov 20, 10 5:39 pm Post subject:
I presume it has a basket that goes in??? Have you seen a picture of what the drape looks like? I couldn't find one online. If you can find a picture of what it would look like it would help me visualise how it attaches? Kate

Vanessa

Joined: 08 May 2006
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Posted: Sat Nov 20, 10 6:18 pm Post subject:
It needs one of the more solid-style Moses baskets, often called a bassinette, to go in it. Then I'd make drapes to fit the bassinette, and a simple chiffon drape over the high bar.

T.G

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Posted: Sat Nov 20, 10 8:32 pm Post subject:

Katieowl wrote:

I presume it has a basket that goes in???

Have you seen a picture of what the drape looks like? I couldn't find one online. If you can find a picture of what it would look like it would help me visualise how it attaches?

Kate

You presume incorrectly, it has fastenings on the frame which the lining is attached too

T.G

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Posted: Sat Nov 20, 10 8:34 pm Post subject:

Vanessa wrote:

It needs one of the more solid-style Moses baskets, often called a bassinette, to go in it. Then I'd make drapes to fit the bassinette, and a simple chiffon drape over the high bar.

No it doesn't have a moses type affair. It's fully lined.

It's sok i'll figure a pattern out, i was trying to cut corners, thought someone may have something I could readily adapt but no matter, cheers anyway

ros

Joined: 19 Jul 2005
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Posted: Sun Nov 21, 10 8:15 am Post subject:

I saw one in a stately home once and remember wondering if I could get someone to make one up, but can't remember where it would have been

There were lots of metal framed "four poster" beds in the house though - does any clever historian know what period they would have been from - then maybe you can tayler your google-ing from there.

I notice that some odd results come up with not-too-careful use of google !

Katieowl

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Posted: Sun Nov 21, 10 10:20 am Post subject:

T.G wrote:

Katieowl wrote:

You presume incorrectly, it has fastenings on the frame which the lining is attached too

OH so it's a kind of baby hammock!!! LOL!

Kate

T.G

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Posted: Sun Nov 21, 10 1:09 pm Post subject:

Katieowl wrote:

T.G wrote:

Katieowl wrote:

You presume incorrectly, it has fastenings on the frame which the lining is attached too

OH so it's a kind of baby hammock!!! LOL!

Kate

yes somethign like that... however it has worried me in that i'm not sure i'd feel safe having a baby asleep in such a thing it could get lost under the covers

I like Vanessa's suggestion of the moses basket. It would certainly be safer to use, I've been pondering it, and with the holes in the frame it would be capable of attaching one to it. Not sure I know of anyone who stocks one big enough or the shape and I'm crtain I don't know anyone locally who makes them to order.

Vanessa

Joined: 08 May 2006
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Posted: Sun Nov 21, 10 5:55 pm Post subject:
It definitely needs to be the more rigid type, TG, otherwise it'll just squish-up like the hammock-style. I wouldn't be happy with my baby being squished like that.

T.G

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Posted: Wed Dec 08, 10 8:43 pm Post subject:
Moss basket purchased, will not fit, it's not wide enough to fit in the existing frame

windyridge

Joined: 03 Oct 2010
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Location: Up the garden from Henry

Posted: Wed Dec 08, 10 10:04 pm Post subject:
could you make a web of erm... webbing to support the basket within the frame?

T.G

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Posted: Wed Dec 08, 10 10:35 pm Post subject:
it's about 4 inches to small all the way around - i have however cannibalised the lining of the moses basket to get the jist of a pattern to make a lining to fit OH suggests a piece of ply in the bottom to stop it from folding like a hammock and a foam mattress such as the one in the moses basket. We'll get there - the baby might be married by the time we do though

Vanessa

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Posted: Thu Dec 09, 10 8:42 am Post subject:
That sounds like a good plan, hope you get it done before baby is born

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