Scrap Happy: Dribble Bibs

One from the vault! A project I made, photographed and wrote about over a year ago, but never published. I shall leave my “written in the past” text as is…

I have managed to find a super fun, quick and ridiculously satisfying baby sewing project, which I’ve managed to find time for in half hour segments over the past week or so. All of my little girl’s bibs are looking a bit tatty now, and lots are a bit small as most of them we have been using since she was born! However, I seriously resent paying a lot of money for a couple of triangles of fabric. So I made a template from a bib she had that was adequately sized and got going. I used up loads of scrap fabrics from other projects for the fronts of the bibs, and bought a metre of cotton terry cloth from eBay for the reverse side, and I was away.

The terry cloth I bought is lovely and thick, it’s really nice quality. I’ve got loads left so am also making some wash cloths for the little one, and probably some gift bibs for friends babies.

For Christmas (2017) I had finally got my hands on one of these bad boys:

Yesssss! Poppers galore and a popper tool to set them! Yippee! It’s so easy (and FUN) to put poppers on. I don’t know why it’s so fun, but it is. Of course choosing a popper colour is part of the fun too. I’m already coveting a set of metal ones too. I feel I need all the popper options. I’m planning what else I can make with poppers… 

Back to the riveting tale of the bibs (I am so sorry it’s such a dull make! I can feel eyes glazing over!). There are 11 of these and they are such happy prints, they bring me joy. They are not my neatest work AT ALL but hey, they are literally going to be drenched in baby dribble, so I think I can accept that.

Do you know, lately I have come to accept all sorts of shoddy standards with my sewing, purely because I have so little time to do it in. I used to take blooming ages over the details, unpick bits that weren’t perfect, spend ages over the pattern placement, pretty much just umm and arrr over every little thing. Now I basically just steam ahead and hope for the best. In some ways this gung-ho style of sewing is limiting, since I can’t imagine myself sitting down to cut out a silk dress or make toile after toile of a new pattern at the moment. However, in a funny way it is also strangely quite freeing. One of my faults is to spend too much time thinking and not enough doing, so this has definitely helped me to do more actual sewing, and achieve results faster. And while I say it’s not the neatest, it’s still pretty neat if I’m honest. The quality hasn’t suffered a huge amount. So when I DO find more time to dedicate to sewing (ha! In ten years maybe!) perhaps I can take some of these lessons with me, speeding through when I can and focusing intently when it’s needed. 

I am really falling back in love with sewing lately. My imagination is off, skyrocketing. Ideas of things I would like to sew come thick and fast, and I find myself gleefully planning when I can next get in the sewing room. I always feel this way as Spring approaches. It must be something to do with the coming of a fresh start, with new life and brightness, that gives me a great urge to make things. All very philosophical for a post about bibs.

In conclusion:

The bibs are great.

Poppers are great.

Time to sew is great.

Speeding through is great. 

Patience is great but all used up on the baby.

Life is great.

Spring is great and it’s coming soon.

Bye everyone! 

x