Burp Cloths

So, another fault of mine is my overwhelming knack for procrastination.  Rather than finish my thesis defense presentation, I've decided to spice up some burp cloths for myself.  Now, I figure my thesis defense will practically write itself - I already have several update presentations from which to pull content and I've already finished the thesis paper.  (Whatever makes me sleep at night, right?)  Also, I figure I am in a great need of additional burp cloths - due to the overactive fire hose and regurgitating baby.

I had several cheap terry cloth hand towels and fat quarters left over from another baby bib project that I did for a friend last year.  So, I took a similar idea from Chickpea Sewing Studio and modified it for hand towels.

Started with the towel and fabric, and cut the fabric to measure about 1/3 of the length and the full width of the towel.

Then I pinned the fabric to the towel in the center of the length.

 

I used my very fancy sewing machine (thanks to my husband!) to zigzag stitch around the edge.

 

Now, the edge of the fabric didn't always match up as well to the edge of the towel as in this picture AND I sewed the fabric on the tag side (wrong side) of some of the towels - not my best attention to detail; I admit.

To which I say - Seriously, the kid's going to be puking on this thing; it doesn't have to be perfect...

To which you might say - Then why don't you just use the towel instead of taking the time to sew some nice fabric on the towel, if the kid's just going to puke on it...

To which I might say - Toche, good point, but remember it's either do this or work on my thesis.  So, there.

So, I repeated the process on six towels.

Hurray!  But now what do I do to procrastinate my thesis?!?  Hmmm, perhaps I'll clean the office which I've now trashed with my fabric projects.

Happy Day!