Burda Style For people who sew

Description

My friend recently gave birth to a baby boy, so I decided to give a handmade baby gift, and settled on making the Nested bib pattern. I really like Nested patterns, I have used them a few times now for baby gifts and they work really well and have a nice finish. This bib pattern is free and can be downloaded as a PDF. The printable size is best suited to a new born baby, but you can enlarge it on a photocopier for a larger bib.

For these bibs I used some blue and white striped fabric that I thrifted from a men’s shirt. I like business shirt fabric from the thrift store as it is so much softer that shirt fabric purchased new. I am even making an entire quilt from vintage men’s shirts.

I decided to sew the front and back fabric wrong sides together. I trimmed the edge to within 1/8" of the stitching line, then sewed some bias tape around the sides (the corners were a touch tricky). I decided to use buttons as a fastening rather than snaps as I think they give a nice touch.

I backed the bib with some plain muslin.

Visit me at hand-quilter.blogspot.com to keep up with all my sewing adventures :-)

Sam xox

Material Notes

Thrifted mens shirt. Scrap calico. Bias tape. Button.

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Children

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Credits

Nested Bib Pattern

http://nested.typepad.com/blog/2007/07/something-to-ma.html