Picking Baby Bib Fabric

Series Summary

Sewing is an ancient craft that still has remarkable relevance in today's modern world. The art of stitching and assembling pieces of fabric together either by hand or with the use of a modern sewing machine is still a valuable skill and can be used for industry, home, or artistic purposes. Industrial sewing is usually done with the use of machines, but for seamstresses, alteration givers, and most casual sewers, an old fashioned needle and thread is still incredibly useful and more often than not the desired method since it enables far more detail. Tailoring and dressmaking require not only a needle and thread, but also other tools and materials that you can find easily at arts and crafts stores.

In this free video series, our expert will show you how to make baby bibs. This valuable video for new mothers looking to save some money on baby clothes will give you step by step instructions for picking and cutting out the fabric, and seaming the edges. You will also learn how to serge the edges of the baby bib and apply the snaps. If you love making your own clothing or sewing small projects, let our expert show you this fun and easy baby bib.

Video Transcript

"Hi. Welcome to Expert Village. I'm Gretchen Soares with Butterfly Boutique. So today we're going to be making crisscross bibs. They crisscross in the back of the bib and they are fully reversible and the good thing about these is that children have a tendency to not want to wear their bib and they yank it right off. The ones that are just velcroed right here come off super easy. So this actually goes on them, it crosses across their back and hooks under the arm on both sides. This guy's a little chubbier than the child would be so it's not quite this tight on the child. And then when they yank on it, it can't go anywhere and we protect their clothing while they eat. It's also reversible so if we're out and about, if they spill and you don't want your kid to look horrible, just flip it over and they look all cute again. So, these are a great project. They're quick, easy and they're going to be a lot of fun today. For this project we need to choose two pieces of fabric and we are going to use flannel. Flannel is very soft to the texture, so it's good for around children's necks it's not going to chafe or cause any irritation. It's also very washable. And because flannel is made out of cotton, it's pretty stain resistant. It's easy to get stains out and we all know how messy children are when they eat. So, for this project we're going to make a little boy's bib. We picked this cute little dump truck and for the reverse side we're going to use the polka dots."