Ruffled crib skirts announce a celebration -- and a lot of work. You want that mixed match-up of endlessly gathered patterns and colors to be just perfect, a scenario with no room for the bottom ruffle dragging on the floor by the princess's first birthday. While you're carefully constructing your crib-skirt confection, run a line of sticky hook-and-loop binding around the top of the last ruffle and the bottom edge of the backing to which the ruffles are sewn. Stick the bottom ruffle to the backing. The newborn gets the deep ruffle treatment; the toddler gets the short version with the bottom ruffle removed.
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