Nothin' But Net

One of the recent endeavors by Stinkerbell Designs was a custom bedding set for our awesome customer, Angela.

Her daughter emailed us the jumpman logo to be the inspiration for her custom baby bedding. She also specified she wanted blue, white, gray and black fabrics used. We immediately went on a search for the perfect fabrics to use for this unique design.

Our eyes were immediately drawn to a bright blue basketball jersey fabric at our local fabric store! We had to line it so that so that the stuffing didn’t come poking through the holes, so we naturally chose the same bright blue in a lightweight cotton. This gave it a little extra stability too.
To complement the jersey fabric, we chose a heavy twill in gray and black. We also used white twill for the ties and squares in the blanket.

Each long side of the bumper has the jumpman design on the inside and the outside so that whichever side the customer chose to have facing out, the baby and visitors would still be able to see the logo. We also put the jumpman on the lower right corner of the blanket too. We used a white vinyl for the jumpan to add texture and variety. Each jumpman was handcut and painstakingly stitched in place.


Our original design included the full bedding set, a toy hammock, a diaper organizer, a set of three 20”x20” throw pillows, curtains, a rug, hanging wall art, lampshade and also a diaper stacker. We came across an orange basketball textured vinyl that we were going to use as an accent on the organizer, tabs for the curtains and one of the throw pillows. The customer ended up going with just the bedding set including the bumper, bedskirt, blanket and crib sheet.

This bedding set really challenged us since we worked with the jersey fabric, a textile we had never worked with before. This is also one of very few boy sets we’ve completed. Not that we don’t do bedding for boys, it just seems that most of our customers have ordered bedding for little girls.

Having been given the opportunity to complete such a unique bedding set not only stretched our creative muscles, but was also very rewarding and ultimately, the customer loved it.