Big Sister Burp Cloths

One of my sisters just had her third baby and is also a special needs foster mom to Andie whose a teenager.  Andie is bonding with the baby more than anyone expected and loves to help hold her. 

My sister's babies have also all been very spitty, so I told her her I'd make her some burp cloths.  As I was looking through the flannel I had, I thought I'd try an experiment. 

We made some special burp clothes for Andie, especially since she always wants to have a burp cloth to hold the baby, just in case.  I chose yellow because that's her favorite color.  She also loves the KU basketball team.  And after I made the "Big Sister...Baby" one, I realized she'd like one with their names even more.  Andie loves things with her name since it has an unusual spelling and is hard to find things with it.

I had to trace the design differently than usual, though, because the flannel is too thick to see through.  I just made my own transfer paper.  Here's what you do.

Start my making your burp cloths.  There are a ton of ways to do this, but I make mine like this.  You could also buy burp cloths already made and personalize them yourself.

Make any adjustments to your design that you want.  I used the same basic design and added small differences to each one.  I used one of the girls and the flowers from My Sister...My Friend from Twin Stitchers and added the little baby to the picture.  (Yeah...I know what you're thinking...I'm obsessed with doodle people.)

Scribble on the back of the design with a pencil.

Use a ball point pen or other pointy something to press hard over all the lines in your pattern.

It should leave slight pencil lines like this on your fabric.

Use an ultra fine point sharpie or fabric marker to go over the lines.

Iron over your design.  (I'm not sure this is totally necessary, bit it helps set the ink and only takes a second.)

And that's it.  Some for the new mommy and some for the big sister...but I think the big sister ones are cuter.  My sister said after multiple washings the designs look like new.

Now that I know it works, I dying to make some the same way using one of these patterns.  I know a few people who woudl think it would be funny for their baby to be sending one of these messages over Mom or Dad's shoulder while being burped.

What would you put on a burp cloth?