GRANDMOTHER'S SEWING ROOM: Precious Moments Burp Rags

Precious Moments Burp Rags

I made some more burp rags for our newest addition, Baby Tristen.

My sister sent this wonderful pack of diapers that are NOT pre-folded!!  I hadn't seen these in YEARS.. so glad she found them... gotta love Amazon!  Link to Diapers at Amazon





I played with my Janome Digitizer MB (found here) and created these three Precious Moments design.

The clip art was from a Google search for free baby coloring pages.  These were perfect!
I had to tweak the pictures a bit on my Photo Impact program (found here) in order to even out the colors before digitizing.

 I used a variegated thread on each one.  The brown is a brown 'tweed' and has white in it.  The blue tweed on the bottom is the same way.  The baby variegated turned out to be my favorite.  They are all Robison-Anton Threads (tweeds here) (4CC Rainbow found here).

I think it's time to buy a pack of these flat-fold diapers to embroider on and have baby gifts ready on hand!

GRANDMOTHER'S SEWING ROOM: fringed embroidery

 I found a wonderful new (at least new to me) machine embroidery technique here.
Of course I had to try it out on burp rags! I have several more of those I can decorate yet!

This picture is taken before I pulled the fringes out. The flower on the right is made with wide satin stitches. The one on the left has had the bobbin threads cut out. The remaining threads were pulled out to make the 'fringe.'


And here is a close up of one of the flowers. You need to be careful when clipping the bobbin thread: if you accidentally clip the top thread, it will pull out and leave a bare spot (you can tell at the top where some of the petals are missing).  I thought this was a fun and pretty flower to make.

GRANDMOTHER'S SEWING ROOM: More Burp Rags

  

I was wanting to do some more work with my embroidery machine, so Baby Kay has 2 more

colorful burp rags!  She still has a stack of these I could liven up..

GRANDMOTHER'S SEWING ROOM: Burp rags for Baby Kay

 I'm just embroidering on cloth pre-folded diapers to make them a little more special. That's what we use for 'burp rags' anyway. I think this makes them look more like a burp rag and less like a diaper.

This one is applique for the monogram K and embroidery for the rest of her name.