{"id":19673,"date":"2014-01-06T21:42:53","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T13:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=19673"},"modified":"2017-02-25T12:22:46","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T04:22:46","slug":"sewing-project-1-baby-bandana-bibs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2014\/01\/06\/sewing-project-1-baby-bandana-bibs\/","title":{"rendered":"Sewing Project #1: Baby Bandana Bibs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve hinted strongly at Yang what I&#8217;d like for my birthday present last year. He gave me a &#8216;are you sure?&#8217; kinda look when I told him that I wanted a sewing machine. I want to be empowered to make alterations to clothing and sew simple things you see.<\/p>\n<p>So far, I&#8217;ve managed to<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>replace loose elastic bands on Hannah&#8217;s shorts with new ones instead of throwing them away;<\/li>\n<li>replace the loose elastic bands on Peter&#8217;s fitted bedsheets; and<\/li>\n<li>alter the length of Yang&#8217;s new pants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19738\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/blog-2013-rivervale-OMDB4068-sewingmachine.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/blog-2013-rivervale-OMDB4068-sewingmachine.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/blog-2013-rivervale-OMDB4068-sewingmachine-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now I dream of sewing quilts for the family and dresses for Hannah. However, free time is hard to come by and hence these dreams are distant realities. Anyway, I got myself started on something small recently. At the rate that Peter was drooling, the number of bibs we had couldn&#8217;t meet the demand. So the idea of sewing bibs came about. I browsed the Internet for ideas and tips and I got intrigued with bandana bibs. The initial prep work took up some time as I did not have all the necessary tools to begin with. I learned something new: fat quarter fabric! Ha, what a neat piece of cloth to sew small items like bibs. Fell in love with it. I also found a little online fabric store (local some more!) that sells lovely fabrics. Gosh, I think I&#8217;m addicted to acquiring beautiful fabrics.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19735\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19735\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19735 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Peters-4-bibs-1-blog.jpg\" alt=\"4 different fabrics used for Peter's 15 bibs.\" width=\"500\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Peters-4-bibs-1-blog.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Peters-4-bibs-1-blog-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19735\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">4 different fabrics used for Peter&#8217;s 15 bibs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I sewed 15 bandana bibs for Peter using 4 different fabric designs. I also experimented with different absorbent materials (e.g. terry and nappy cloths) for the backing. Am quite happy with the results and especially so with all the bibs being put to good use. Nobody can say that they have the same bibs as Peter because these are one of a kind! Hee hee :)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19736\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19736\" style=\"width: 444px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19736 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1-baby-bandana-bib-5-blog.jpg\" alt=\"Bandana bib cups the jaw and hence can absorb more saliva.\" width=\"444\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1-baby-bandana-bib-5-blog.jpg 444w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1-baby-bandana-bib-5-blog-300x251.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bandana bib cups the jaw and hence can absorb more saliva.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19739\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/blog-2013-peter-OMDB4632-oldtownwhitecoffee-citysquaremall-brunch-copy.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"330\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/blog-2013-peter-OMDB4632-oldtownwhitecoffee-citysquaremall-brunch-copy.jpg 330w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/blog-2013-peter-OMDB4632-oldtownwhitecoffee-citysquaremall-brunch-copy-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve hinted strongly at Yang what I&#8217;d like for my birthday present last year. He gave me a &#8216;are you sure?&#8217; kinda look when I told him that I wanted a sewing machine. I want to be empowered to<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2014\/01\/06\/sewing-project-1-baby-bandana-bibs\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Sewing Project #1: Baby Bandana Bibs<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[644],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everything-else","wpcat-644-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1-baby-bandana-bib-5-blog.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}