Burping Blankets

We're eating plain noodle soup with kimchi tonight, so there are no photos. Instead, a crafty photo of food-related objects. They're burping blankets, which you put over your shoulder so that when (not if, when) a baby pukes up his milk, it lands on the blanket and not all over you. Great in theory, but I'm pretty sure parents still get puked on all the time.

I'm making a stack of these for my sister, who's going to a baby shower in a couple of weeks. We went to the fabric store this weekend and she picked out this rubber duck pattern that she thought her friend would like. We also found textured terry cloth, which is so much nicer than the regular stuff I usually see. The leftovers will make nice kitchen towels. Burping blankets are a cinch to cut out and stitch up. It's ridiculous that they cost $10-30 each in cute baby boutiques because my sister paid $6.61 for enough fabric and thread to make several. Granted, we didn't use designer fabric and we happened to walk in on a sale, but $30 for a 9x15" barf cloth? Who buys those?

I also made a few bibs with velcro closures. Babies are so lucky. They get the cutest presents.