Burp Cloths

For my niece Rachel, Tammy had made some burp cloths by taking some cloth diapers and sewing a strip of fabric at one end. The idea is that the burp cloths are pretty to look at when draped over the shoulder. I think she saw this done somewhere. Anyhow, some friends of mine were expecting a baby and I thought it would be a neat baby gift.

I put together some sayings that I thought went with the fabric sewn to the bottom of the diaper.  I am especially pleased with the star diapers--not only did I add the saying, but I also drew some little stars to embroider as well.  Laying out the lettering was not nearly as hard as I thought it would be.  The software allowed me to change the baseline for the lettering.  I was able to do a little arc and then later I made waves.  

I had a lot of fun with these and they stitched out amazingly well considering we always have problems when stitching small letters.  This time I changed the density of the the stitches and I took out the underlay.  It seems like the added stitches in close proximity contributed to the thread breaking.  Thread breakage is one of the most frustrating problems we experience, but I will go into more details on that later.

At the same time, I also made one with an applique for Rachel.  I put an R on the diaper with a purple fuzzy fabric--I think is was a velour fabric.  Unfortunately, I did not take a picture, but it also turned out well, but was a pain to do.  Cutting the fabric for the applique was more difficult than I thought it would be.