5 new bibs

Here’s a closeup of one of the bibs – Yenari made up the pattern herself.

A girly blue bib

As she did last time, Yenari used an old shirt of mine for the backing fabric.  After 6 bibs, that shirt is not doing so well…here I am modeling it:

The sacrificed shirt, from the front

...and from the back

Not much left of the shirt, but Yenari thinks she can still get another bib out of it, after that I don’t know what she’ll do.  The other day I caught her eyeing another of my dress shirts (straight out of the dryer) and she asked me whether I still wear it…so I better start locking up my shirts or putting them up somewhere high where she can’t reach them!

Yenari is all about recycling and making the most of all of the left over fabrics she has from previous projects.  She found a tiny bit of racing car fabric that was left over from a pair of pajamas she made for Duncan for his birthday last year.  It’s a little boy-like, but she decided to go for it anyway and make a bib – here’s a photo:

Front of the bib

For the backing, she stuck with the leftover theme and used an old dress shirt of mine that had a big hole in the elbow and was beyond repair (believe me, she tried repairing it many times).  The shirt, a Brooks Brothers non-iron shirt, was a gift to me from Yenari and was one of my favorites.  Here’s a photo of the back, and also of the original shirt.

Back of the bib

Original source of the bib backing

For the ultimate in leftover fabric projects, I present the following: a baby blanket Yenari made (months before our wedding, even) out of a huge assortment of leftover pajama fabrics from years worth of presents.

Left over fabric blanket

Luckily the Pjs were a mix between blues and pinks, so the blanket should be good whether it’s a boy or a girl!  The great experimenter Yenari didn’t know how to do quilting – this was a total improvisation based on about 10 minutes of watching quilting videos on YouTube (can you imagine more boring videos than quilting videos?).  Yenari’s favorite quilting video would definitely have to be Quilting with Buck – it’s a winner.