How to Make Drool Bibs

Your homemade drool bibs add a stylish and practical accessory to your baby’s outfit.

Drool happens, but it doesn’t have to happen all over your baby’s clothes. Constantly having wet clothes isn’t clean or comfortable for your baby and creates more work for you. Wisk away drool faster than your tot can say “ga-ga” by making your own drool bibs. You can make them out of fun-colored fabrics that match her clothes and look like bandanas. Your bibs will have fellow moms wondering where you bought them and are sure to become a staple in all of your future baby shower gift baskets.

Things You'll Need

• Pencil
• Decorative fabric
• Absorbent fabric
• Pins
• Needle and thread or sewing machine
• Fabric hook-and-loop fastener

Instructions

1. Lay out your two fabrics, one on top of the other.

2. Decide what shape your bib should be -- triangle, boomerang or square -- and if it should have straight, rounded or wavy edges. Decide where the bib will fasten: at the back of the neck or in the front on a top corner of the bib.

3. Draw with a pencil your bib shape onto the fabric. If you have trouble creating a shape that you like, trace a bib that you already have, a folded bandana or a free bib pattern that you can print off the Internet. Drool bibs are typically a little shorter than regular bibs -- around 5 or 6 inches from the neck to the bottom. The neck strap is a little bit thinner, usually less than 2 inches, and the neck hole is snug, less than 4 inches. Make sure to allot about ¼ inch for the hem.

4. Cut out the bib from both layers of fabric. Place and pin the layers together with straight pins, with the outside surfaces facing inward towards each other. Put the pins parallel to the bib edge, about ¼ inch from the edge.

5. Sew the layers together by hand or using a sewing machine, leaving a 2-inch opening. Turn the fabric right-side out from the opening and finish sewing it up by hand.

6. Attach a self-adhesive hook-and-loop fastener to the ends of the bib, or sew on one.

Tips & Warnings

• Add some sass to your bib by sewing on shapes, patches, or embroidering words onto the front.

• Snaps or buttons can be substituted for the hook-and-loop fastener.