So this is about the extent to which my crafty/sewing skills extend these days:
These are cloth diaper wipes for Young Master James. You can buy cloth wipes online, but you’ll pay about a dollar each for what is essentially a square of fabric (sometimes two layers) with serged edges.
Hmph to that, I say.
Joann’s had solid flannel on sale for $2 a yard shortly before James was born, so I bought a couple of yards and cut half of each of them up into squares with pinking shears, thinking that the pinking would keep them from fraying in the wash. Alas, I was mistaken:
Since I don’t have a serger, I figured that the zigzag stitch on my sewing machine was the next closest thing, and might work (or at least wouldn’t be worse than what I had already), so I gave it a shot with the other half of the fabric. The variegated thread was originally for another project (the Attic Windows wall quilt with the gorgeous batik fabric) but I haven’t used it yet and who knows when I’ll get back to it now!
Thanks to the magical baby-soothing properties of Nancy’s Bug Chair, I finished them this afternoon (what should have taken a couple of hours wound up taking a week or two, in 15-minute increments!) I plan to deploy them later today, and I’ll report back once I’ve washed them a time or two.