How to Cut and Sew a Baby Bib With Snaps

Baby bibs are fun and easy to sew, and a useful gift. You can use easy to clean vinyl fabric (often available in the home decor section of fabric stores) or absorbent terry cloth for practical bibs, or use cute cotton prints, adorable fleece or decorative fabrics for special occasion bibs. You can even find iron-on vinyl in some fabric stores that you can fuse to most kinds of fabric to give them an easy to clean coating. You can use a single layer of fabric for thick, non-raveling fabrics such as terry cloth and fleece, or sew together two layers for thin fabrics such as cotton. You can purchase a bib pattern from the fabric store, trace around an existing bib or draw your own simple bib shape with a neck hole and tabs that wrap around the back for the snaps.

Things You'll Need

• Fabric
• Pattern
• Bias tape (optional)
• Straight pins
• Scissors
• Sewing machine
• Thread
• Iron
• One large or two small snaps
• Hand-sewing needle

Instructions

Cut and Sew a Single Layer Baby Bib

1. Buy or make a baby bib pattern.

2. Buy enough fabric to cut out one bib.

3. Pin the pattern to the fabric.

4. Cut around the pattern.

5. Remove the pins.

6. Decorate the front of the bib if desired.

7. Zig-zag stitch around all the edge of the bib to prevent it from raveling, or pin bias tape around all the edges of the bib. Sew the bias tape to the bib.

8. Place the indented half of the snap or snaps on the front of one fabric tab of the bib, close to the edge. Hand sew the snaps in place like you would a button, by stitching through the holes around the edges of the snaps.

9. Place the other half of the snap or snaps on the back of the other fabric tab of the bib, lining them up with the indented snaps. Hand sew the snaps in place like you would a button, by stitching through the holes around the edges of the snaps.

Cut and Sew a Two-Layer Baby Bib

1. Buy or make a baby bib pattern.

2. Buy enough fabric to cut out two bibs.

3. Fold the fabric in half right sides together.

4. Pin the pattern to the fabric.

5. Cut around the pattern.

6. Remove the pins.

7. Decorate the front of the bib if desired.

8. Place the pieces of fabric right sides together. Pin them together, then stitch along the edge, leaving a small opening.

9. Turn the bib right side out and press it flat. Turn the edges of the opening to the inside of the bib and handstitch the opening closed.

10. Place the indented half of the snap or snaps on the front of one fabric tab of the bib, close to the edge. Hand sew the snaps in place like you would a button, by stitching through the holes around the edges of the snaps.

11. Place the other half of the snap or snaps on the back of the other fabric tab of the bib, lining them up with the indented snaps. Hand sew the snaps in place like you would a button, by stitching through the holes around the edges of the snaps.

Tips & Warnings

• If you don’t want to hand sew the snaps, you can buy snaps that can be hammered on.

• Use caution when working with sewing machines, irons, scissors and pins.