These are becoming my go to baby shower gifts because they are easy, quick (2 of my favorite qualities in a project) and they don't take much in supplies. I always try to stock up on fabric during Joann's black friday sale. Every year they have flannel for around $1.70/yd. I bought like 7 yards of various fabrics. Now it's February and most of them are used, I'm wishing I would have bought more.
Anyways.....
I have tutorials for most of these so I won't bother you with more step by steps. I'll just link them. I also added a bottle of baby shampoo, a Playtex Ventaire bottle ( my personal favorite for Grant, can't say I miss those days of washing bottles), and a package of 2 Playtex binkys.
Changing pads have become my go to gift for babies since my son was born. I made myself 2 of these 2 keep in the car and at home. The tutorial is here, I love these because they are made with bathroom hand towels so I don't have to measure and cut that fabric, they are large enough to use on public changing tables covering the majority of the table, keeping your little one germ free, and you just throw them in the washer to clean them.
This is the first time I have attempted wash cloths and I think it may be my last, haha. You would think cutting 2 squares and stitching them together would be about a 10 minute project but that minky fabric is a nightmare for me. I had never used it before and thought it would be like any other cotton, FYI it's not.
Minky is stretchy, am I the only one out there that didn't realize that....probably.
Anyway, I cut 9 inch squares of the flannel and minky fabric, stitched them right sides together, turned them right side out and stitched around the outside using 1/4inch seam allowance. My advice if you are planning on making these and haven't used minky before, use lots and lots of pins. I also baste stitched a cross pattern 2 keep the fabric in place (along with using lots and lots of pins). I think they turned out cute and I'm glad I made them but I'm a sucker for the easy peasy projects that don't take much thought (after all my little one interupts me about a dozen times during a 10 minute project making it a 40 minute project).
I was attempting to do something different with this binky clip. In my vision I wanted a little ruffle action going on since this is for a little baby girl, however after attempt #2 failing I gave up that idea and got what you see above. In the past I've used ribbon for binky clips but I wanted one that could be easily thrown in the washer if it gets covered in spit up or formula. To make the one above I cut a piece of fabric 2 inches wide and at whatever length you want (make it longer than you think you will need because you will be scrunching it up). Pinned right sides together making a very long rectangle, and stitched. I turned it right side out and with a 1/4inch seam allowance used a basting stitch on either side. I pulled one strand of the thread to make it ruffle or scrunch up. Since I didn't take any pictures during the process of the clip above it would probably be easier to follow the rest of the tutorial here.
I absolutely love these burp cloths. I originally saw a version of them at Homemade by Jill. I use quilt batting in between the layers which I don't think she did and let me just say that it is the way to go. A package of quilt batting makes a lot of burp cloths and they are the perfect thickness. When I had Grant my mom and I joined together and made enough to last me a week or more inbetween washes and let me tell you it was a Godsend. I never had to worry about spit up leaking through onto my clothes and in a pinch they can double as a changing pad (just don't use it as a burp cloth after you change a diaper on it, Yuck).
And last but not least I had to make a wipes case to match the changing pad. I have a tutorial here. I'm still a bit iffy on whether I like the trim I used on it.
It's the first time I've used a ribbon type trim but there's no way in heck I'm ripping it apart. I was so excited to cross these gifts off my to-do list. Seems like everyone is having a baby right now. I have another baby shower at the end of March and I'm throwing a baby shower at the end of April so I'm in full swing with baby projects around here.
Which means you will get to see quite a few more baby projects!
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