Burp Clothes

I love sewing and love being able to make baby presents for people. These burp clothes make great gifts, and I have gotten several compliments on them as well.

Download the patterns below for the burp clothes. I like to use the pattern on a paper bag since it's a sturdier material.

Buy flannel fabric (you can probably buy cotton but I like the softness and the absorbency of the flannel.) I generally buy 1/2 yard in several fabrics and then mix and match the fabrics, you will need at least 1/4 yard of fabric to make the burp cloth.

Cut your fabric.

Put right side fabric together.

Pin the fabric together.

Sew around the burp cloth, leaving enough of a gap that you can flip the fabric ride side out. Sew with a 1/4 inch allowance, or as close to the edge as you feel comfortable.

Once you finish sewing, flip the fabric ride side out.

At this point, you have two options. 

1. You can sew around the burp cloth, sewing the gap together, but also giving the burp cloth a nice finished stitch.

2. Hand stitch the gap closed.

For this project, I chose option 2.

 

(This is a good tutorial on doing a hidden stitch, and easier to see then from my pictures.)

Now you have a finished burp clothes. These burp clothes are seriously so easy to make and so practical.

Give the "Scoop" on Baby Boy - Baby Shower Part 2

What's a party without some delicious food? The ice cream bar was fun to create, since it was the theme for the party.

The night before we prescooped the ice cream with inspiration from Oh Happy Day. We scooped up vanilla ice cream and cookie dough ice cream. We placed the ice cream on parchment paper that had been laid out on cookie sheets. (This needs to be done quickly so your scoops won't melt!). Keep them in the freezer until the scoops are hard and then transfer them to freezer bags. We used quart size and were able to fit 6 scoops per bag. This made it really convenient during the party since we only brought out a bag at the time and prevented too much ice cream from melting.

During the party, we placed the ice cream in glass bowls and the glass bowls were placed in metal bowls containing ice.

We made these Sundae cookes from Rose Bakes. 

We also had cookies and brownies.

Our toppings included: whipped cream, hot fudge, strawberry syrup, caramel, mini chocolate chips, mini m&ms (blue, green and brown), and sprinkles (blue, green, brown, and white).

We had the spoons in Sundae dishes tied with ribbon in the theme colors.

Guest of honor!

Christie, thanks for letting us throw this shower for you. Hope you had as much fun as we did!

Give the "Scoop" on Baby Boy - Baby Shower Part 1

Our friend is having a baby boy in August, and we wanted to throw her a baby shower. We thought an ice cream party would be the perfect summer way to celebrate.

We have found that Evite seems to work the best so we found a cute ice cream invitation on Evite and used that. Our message:

Come give Christie the "Scoop" on babies to celebrate her baby BOY! it's an open house so come anytime between 7 -9 pm and come prepared to give some advice.

We made and printed out these advice cards (printed 4" by 6"):

Download advice cards

Next to the advice cards, we had instructions and ideas for advice.
Download instructions

We used a little photo book (shown on right) where we put all of the advice cards so she could take them home and have them as a reference.

We used our color scheme to cover the whipped cream in blue and green scrap book paper.

Our friend Shelly made this cute banner that we used for the gift table.

Kim made these ice cream cone balloons using this tutorial 

It was fun to be able to socialize with everyone but also celebrate baby boy.

Thursday, I will show the ice cream bar!