We’re going to a baby shower for a friend today and since I had to stay home to take care of R yesterday I decided I had enough time to take care of her, log into computer at work to do some real work, do some chores, and to make some baby bibs for my friend. Who knows, R might be able to help too!

Ok, back to reality…

My friend doesn’t know whether the baby is a girl or a boy so it was not easy selecting the right fabrics for the baby bibs. I tend to buy girly fabrics and that definitely doesn’t help. However, I did came up with a few combinations that I thought might work.

This is the first time I have made baby bibs. I’m not sure why I never made them for my kids. Maybe I thought they were hard to make. I feel bad for making my kids use old dirty baby bibs when they could have used some stylish ones. I know, they would become all stained anyway, but stained, stylish baby bibs are better than stained, ugly ones.

It turned out that baby bibs are quite easy to make. I took an old baby bib and made a pattern. To make it softer I put a layer of cotton batting in the middle. For closure I used snaps.

They came out okay, considering that this is my first time making them. I hope my friend can’t tell that the front and back don’t really match and will like them.

Front of each baby bib.

Corresponding back of each baby bib.

Question: Are polka dots only for girls?