Searching “baby mobiles” on pinterest is a very delightful activity. My heart melts for this sweet horse one. I wanted to make an affordable baby mobile for our new nursery. I sewed together strips of cardstock. The trickiest part was choosing my colors. I feared the nursery was beginning to skew way more boy than girl, so I erred on the slightly more feminine side for the mobile. As I have previously written I am not sure a truly “works for both genders” nursery exists because I feel like they always skew one way or another.
Also, I’m just super picky about shades of color, so even the wall of cardstock at michael’s felt like not enough choices!
I ended up with mustard, red-orange, mint, and lavender. The first three have been in our color scheme from the start, but I have added lavender in small quantities to girl-it-up some more.
The method is quite simple.
- Slice cardstock into strips. I made mine six inches wide and varying widths for a not-too-“perfect” look.
- Feed paper through sewing machine, leaving a long tail at one end (for hanging). I stopped to do a lot of testing on length so it would fill the space, but not be too close to a standing baby or that we’d always brush into them. My longest segment was about 28 strips.
- Hang strands at varying lengths. We taped them up with masking tape to get our locations just right. Then, we tied the strings around nails and tapped them into the ceiling.
It is getting a lot more cozy and newborn-friendly in here!