I had a piece of fabric left over from a gift bag I made and it was lying at the workstation for a week. It was time for the brain to kick into gear and figure something out.
I opted for a bib, mainly because I had everything to make it in the house. I kept the pattern from years back but it's still available. Here is the link: mary martha mama is the website. This is not the one I used but it will work out. There are a lot of things you can download and truthfully I just didn't feel like going through the whole blog to find the pattern I used.
I lay the fabrics right sides together, trace around the pattern with my blue washable marker
and then I stitch on that line. Back into the machine and I stitch inside that line 1/4"
I then cut the bib on the stitching that is over the blue line. It gives me a perfect 1/4" seam allowance. Clip the curves without nicking the stitching and turn it right side out.
Give it a good pressing -- and if your iron doesn't spit out water -- you can do a stitch around the outside and attach the velcro. Unfortunately, my iron decided to spit and I had to wait for the bib to dry. Some days!!!!!
All done and it took less than an hour.
Every once in a while I like to feature something that is "antique" in my house. My Dad made this hotplate over 60 years ago when we lived in Lachine, Quebec. I don't know how I ended up with it, but it is a treasure. In all this time, after years of soap and scrubbing it is still together and holds something hot every night on our table. One of my children will inherit this, but I plan on framing it for them. They loved their "Pa" as much as I did.