8 Comfortable DIY Sleeping Bags You Can Make With Your Own Hands

I know of mothers who consider it very useful and use it with satisfaction and others who still look at it with a bit of distrust. I’m talking about the sleeping bag, a sort of real cloth or wool bag, closed on the sides and on the bottom where babies and children sleep without using more sheet and cover.

The aim is to make children (and consequently also parents) sleep peacefully in comfort and warmth without the risk that they will be discovered or, on the contrary, that they remain with their faces covered.

Usually the sleeping bag is used for both newborns and older children up to 36 months and, depending on age, the models can change from those made in cocoon more suitable for very young children, to those like dungarees that leave the arms free more suitable for slightly older children.

Well, do you want to try to make at least one with your own hands? I know you think it’s not easy, but trust me it isn’t. All you need is a little patience, a great desire to do and easy ideas from which to take inspiration like the ones I’m showing you today.

Sleeping bags do it yourself

1.Sleeveless fleece sleeping bag

Do you like this sleeping bag? It is sleeveless, without buttons and without zippers and sews with few seams, closes tear-off on the shoulders and even on the bottom. In the link that I show you will find the explanations and a useful pattern

Sleeveless also this type of sleeping bag, but this time there is a zipper to sew. It can be made in warm cotton, fleece and even with light quilted fabric.

3.Padded sleeping bag with buttons

This is one of the easiest DIY sleeping bags to make. In practice, it is simply a cloth square to be buttoned and folded in various ways. Tutorial here → Square Padded sleeping bag

4.Band sleeping bag

For very young children it can be useful a sleeping bag that wraps them completely like this. It is made of sack in the pass part and two flaps that overlap and close tear in the upper part. To do so follow the explanations. like this one can be useful.

5.Crochet sleeping bag

If you know how to crochet how about this nice sleeping bag? The pattern involves crocheting a simple rectangle that will then be folded over and buttoned up at the sides. In this case the braid stitch and rib stitch were used, but it can be created with other stitches as well.
Explanations here → Crochet sleeping bag

6. Sleeping bag with an old wool sweater

Do you have so many wool sweaters that you no longer wear? Use them to make your DIY sleeping bags! Just a few strokes of scissors and a few seams and voilà the bag is ready, free and recycled! Tutorial here → sleeping bag with a sweater

7.Cloth sleeping bag tied

Very nice and elegant this sleeping bag in lightly padded fabric (I find it also suitable as a gift to make to a new mother). The model vaguely resembles a kimono and is closed to the side by a lanyard. On the link you will find a scheme to make it happen.

8.Seamless sleeping bag

And finally if you are denied with needle and thread, knit, crochet and so on, this sleeping bag is for you! It is made simply by knotting together the fringes cut out on three cloth sheets (fleece or warm cotton). In this case an adult pillow has been inserted inside, but I recommend using a breathable mattress like those for wheelchairs. However, the idea is intelligent and original and above all very easy to realize! Video Tutorial HERE → Sleeping bag without sewing

Well, now you just have to choose the sleeping bag that best suits your needs and your abilities, find the right fabric and… set your hands in motion.