DIY Burp cloths

I put the 1 metre of terry cloth and flannel to good use today.  I had enough to make 11 burp cloths, following the pattern from here.  They are contoured and quite wide, so hopefully this will catch all when they are needed!

I decided to use terry cloth and flannel because they are both absorbent.  The terry cloth is also noticeably thicker than the flannel as well.  I was going to have the flannel be the bottom piece, the piece that goes on my shoulder, while the terry cloth will be on top, facing the baby.  I found that the terry cloth wasn't as soft as when I bought it though.  All my fabrics were pre-washed at 90 degrees Celcius for shrinking, with no softener.  To ensure the softer side is for the baby, I changed it so that the terry will be on my shoulder instead of the baby's face.

Cost?  1 m terry cloth = 10 euros, 1 m flannel = 3 euros, other fabrics were negligible because they were scraps from other projects.  Actually, the flannel doesn't count as well, because they were left-overs from when I made swaddle cloths.  And a day's time, because I'm slow and took lots of breaks :)

The following is a pictorial of how it was done.

Fold fabric in half, my fold is at the bottom.  Lay the pattern on top.  Pin in place and cut out.

My stash of cut out terry cloth burp cloths.

Do the same on flannel.  

Pile up top is the flannel, pile to the left is terry cloth, and pile to the right is pretty fabric to make some of the burp cloths look less plain.

Layer the fabrics together.  The "sandwich" will be turned inside-out after sewing.  If doing two layers, make sure the  right sides together.  For three layers, like above, layer the  two right sides that will face out (the side that will be on your shoulder and the side that will be next to baby) together, then place the third layer on top.  

After layering, pin and sew around.  Remember to leave a gap on the side with the long straight edge for turning inside-out.

Ensure all the layers were sewn through.  Notch all the corners as above.  This was probably the most tedious and messy step for me.

Turn them inside out!  

Iron!  Then top-stitch around the edges to close the gap where you turned it inside-out, and to make it look neat.

Completed burp cloth!  The top one has 3 layers - pretty fabric, flannel, and terry cloth at the bottom.  The burp cloth tucked underneath is folded to show the terry cloth side and the white flannel side.

My stash of 11 burp cloths!