Okay! I've got something special to share with y'all. The other day I designed and made for my baby a lil bundle of baby bibs. Why did I do this? Well, firstly my bub needed more larger bibs and I thought the cost of bibs in shops was a bit much for such a simple design.
Instead, I made a pattern, bought 2 metres of knitted fabric (1 metre per alternating fabric colour/print), and sew on velcro. I was able to make 9 bibs with some scrap material to spare for another potential project.
A couple of the bibs were taken out for a test drive last night. Translation: the bub wore the bib. The bib survived.
I am going to share my bib pattern with you. It is a very simple design and can be sewn up by even the most amateur crafter.
Sewing Steps:
- Cut 2 pieces of fabric on CF Fold.
- Open out the two pieces you just cut, and place the pieces, with the wrong sides of fabric together.
- Plain stitch the two pieces together about 1 cm - 1.5 cm from the edge.
- Reinforce the edges with an overlocker.*
- Cut a small piece of velcro, about 2 cm from the velcro roll.
- Stitch the velcro pieces to the fabric where the X is marked on the pattern.
* Note: If you do not have an overlocker or are a more advanced sewing machinist, you can reinforce the edges of the bib by sewing in binding. If you do this I would suggest cutting a piece of knitted fabric that has a 3 cm width, by 97 cm length.
