Q: I am using this fabric from Sister Parish as the bedskirt for my crib bedding. It's Desmond in red. The red is actually a soft redish/coralish/salmonish coral...it's not a true red. I do not like any of the coordinating fabrics for my bumper. Just wondering if anyone has any ideas for fabric for my bumper.
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Don't use a bumper... they're associated with SIDS!
can you tell us a little more about the overall design of the room? that might be helpful in suggesting a fabric. colors? theme? gender? generally feeling?
We have a couple of fabrics that might work: Linely Rose Check, a small check with a cream background and a few shades of red. Red Ticking Stripe, a classic ticking in a soft red and cream. Go here to see them in the Central Park Pink & Topsy Turvy collections: http://www.javisdavis.com/collections/bothfabrics.html Just call for individual swatches!
Yeah, not to be a buzzkill, but skip the bumper. They are recommended against by the American Association of Pediatrics.
http://pediatrics.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2007/1114/1
Just start roaming quilting stores. Also, I suggest using a cream breathable bumper and a patterned crib sheet. It gives essentially the same look as a skirt and bumper. Plus, I love changing up the patterns in my daughter's room when I change her sheets. (I made them from a few different fabrics with the same color palette).
if you do a bumper, how about stripes in the same colors? i like the juxtaposition.
but to be honest, i'd skip it. i like the austere look of bumperless crib, you save $$ and it's safer, too :)
I used a linen fabric from Colefax and Fowler on the outside of my bumper but I thought that it was too delicate for the inside so I used something called minky polka dot, which is so soft! Now, when my daughter lays down to go to sleep, she pushes her forehead up against it and strokes it with her hand. Without knowing the other colors in teh room, I think that a stripe would like nice, and it is easier to match colors. Otherwise, why not match the background white-ish color and then possibly add a top banding or ribbons that match the red? My bumper has been put through the wash once, just because I figured it ought to get washed but otherwise, it hasn't gotten any dirt on it, so my experience would be that you could use white.
By the way, while I can understand and respect the attitude of better safe than sorry, in the last 20 years, deaths related to crib bumpers account for approximately 1.1 infant deaths a year in the US, out of roughly 27,000 infant deaths and 4 million live births. So your child has about a 1 in 4 million chance of dying from crib bumper related injuries. Just to put it in perspective.