I’m doing some serious scrap busting this week for a baby shower. Today I’m making Baby Burp Cloths, using hand towels. When babies spit up, it’s usually completely gross and a disastrous mess. What better to clean up the catastrophe than a hand towel? Purchase the hand towels at the Dollar Store to save some serious money. I hope it is unnecessary for me to state this, but if you are giving these as a baby gift, please do not make them with your used, stained hand towels.
Skill level: Beginner
Supplies:
- 11″ by 17″ rectangle of flannel
- New Hand Towel- one without prints, preferably white or cream
- Sewing machine
- Thread
- Scissors
Being by cutting out the 11″ by 17″ rectangle from the hand towel. I used an old burp cloth as a template to get my dimensions.
Use the cut hand towel portion to cut a matching rectangle of flannel.
Place the hand towel and flannel piece right sides together. Pin and sew, using a 1/2″ seam allowance. Be sure to leave an opening of at least a few inches to turn.
Clip the corners and trim seams. Turn right side out.
Pin the opening closed, being sure the seam allowance is inwardly turned. Sew around the perimeter of the burp cloth 1/4″ from the edge.
Mark 4″ from each edge of the burp cloth. Mark this all the way down the length of the cloth.
Stitch two straight lines down the marked lines.
Burp cloths completed!
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Super cute and so much more practical! The burp clothes from the store seem to just smear the stuff around. I love the idea of using a towel!
lol. I was seriously looking at my stack of hand towels i picked up at walmart (8 for $6 !) and thinking I should make burp cloths out of them! (our 2 week old is a bit of a puker.)
so cute. adding this to my baby shower gift idea list on pinterest!! 🙂
I love that they’re quick and easy! I always admire the “Take-forever-to-make” ones…but they’re just going to get mess 🙂
I make mine the exact same way, but LOVE the idea of using towels!! So much cheaper (and a great material to sop up all that spit up)!
What a great use of hand towels! Great idea Melanie!
Barbara at Chase the Star
Melanie, these are seriously adorable. And great work – I attempted burp cloths from towels a while back and my seams didn’t come out flat – your look fantastic.
Great idea, I’m going to make some, thanks for sharing!
What an awesome idea! I have a friend who is pregnant with twins and I’ve been looking for ideas of what to make for her. These are great!
Love these! I had a friend make some for me using towels and they work great. I think I will need to make some more now that I know how. Thanks! ~Mommy the Literacy Master
Oh! That looks easy peasy!!! Thank you so much for taking the time to share… I know just how much hard work goes into tutorials 😉
Found you via Petals to Picots Linky Party… now I’m off to have a little look around the rest of you blog.
Cass x
Again, love these! thanks so much for linking up!
Fabulous idea! I am hosting a Beautiful Babies Month next month (as I’m expecting a little girl at the end of the month! Yay!) and am on the look out for guest posts…would you be interested in sharing this? Take a peek at my post (http://517creations.blogspot.com) and let me know! 🙂
**found you via 30 Days Pity Party
Super cute! My son was the king of spit up 🙁 most burp cloths didn’t even contain the mess completely. We definitely ended up using towels. My friend is having a baby in December, I think I might have to make her some of these.
So simple, yet so fun!
Diaper cloth and ripstop nylon are both on sale, I think only through today, and would be good protectors for the adult’s shoulders. Mine are adult now and we used totally different materials, but my son soaked through anything you tried to catch recycled formula. Maybe ripstop or something similar on one side or in between? Think I’ll watch towel sales and get some of that JoAnn’s fabric, Christmas is around the corner and babys are everywhere!!
Janet
Great idea. Found you on Mad in Crafts.
Jen @ CraftyMisAdventures.com
Great idea! Such a lovely simple, clear tutorial too!
Thanks for linking to a Round Tuit!
Hope you have a fabulous week!
Jill @ Creating my way to Success
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Ginger 🙂
ps Congrats on the triplets! I just heard. So exciting. 🙂
These are so adorable Melanie! You are going to need these by the dozen soon 🙂
Thanks for linking up last week! Im featuring these tonight 😀
Do you think using a serger would look nice and then no need to turn or topstitch? just got a new serger looking for projects!
You could definitely use a serger. I still think that turning and topstitching will look more polished, especially if giving them as gifts.
Buying towel material/terry cloth from Joann’s or hancocks would be cheaper than washcloths from the dollar store and it gives you more color options.