My sister just had a little boy a couple of weeks ago, and there are several friends of mine at church who have had babies this month, not to mention my newest coming in April. With all these babies, I needed a new baby gift/craft. I combined a few different variations to come up with my own spin of a cute baby burp cloth. I bought a 12-pack of single fold diapers (you can use double fold, just skip the next step) and then folded them in half so they were approximately 12 inches wide. I bought a cute flannel (1 yard) and ribbon to match. After pre-washing the flannel, I cut it in 12-inch widths for the entire yard length, giving me 3- 12"x36" rectangles. Next I pinned 2 lengths of ribbon onto the folded diaper. I sewed the flannel to the diaper (12-inch ends) right sides together. Next, turn it right side out and edge stitch the selvages to the flannel side. Turn wrong side out. Since the flannel is longer than the diaper, I just centered the diaper in the middle of the flannel and stitched the long sides, leaving an opening to turn right side out- this leaves a cute flannel border to the nicely absorbant diaper. I then edge stitched the long sides with a straight stitch. Finally, zig-zag stitch the ribbons down (I sewed both sides of the ribbon). The end! This project was easy enough I let my 8-year old and 6-year old each sew one for their first sewing project.
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