Originally Posted by
Scissor Queen
I'd just make it longer. You're not supposed to use a baby quilt in a crib anyway. They recommend now that the only thing you should have in the crib is a tight fitting sheet and the baby.
Ok, let me explain this. My MIL considers a bed to be messy, and dirty if it is not "made up" with quilts/comforters, pillows, etc. This belief also includes cribs. And when my boys and my niece were infants she would tell us to make the kids beds (cribs) so that they didn't look trashy and "nasty". So, when we took the kids out of their cribs in the mornings we would "make" the cribs. We let the kids stay in bassinets, swings, entertainers, and playpens during the day and at night we stripped everything out of the beds except the fitted sheet and put the babies to bed. The next morning, we did it all over again. This quilt is a "look cute" and be sentimental quilt. It is not one that the baby will actually be allowed to sleep with until she gets to be about a year and a half old. Then it will get put on her toddler bed. Around age 3 or 4 my SIL will pack it away in a trunk unless it's her "comfy blankie" and then she will drag it around with her until she gets ready to give up her comfy.
I guess I could put another row at the top and make it 63 inches. That is something that I had not considered doing, and it might would actually fit the toddler bed better later too.