Make a Cup and Saucer Bib

Using Your Dishes for a Pattern

© Mary Welling-Bonney

Sep 5, 2009

These bibs are terrific to make and give as gifts. You can personalize them with embroidery or embellishments of any kind. You can make them funny or sentimental. It is totally up to you.

Materials Needed:

• Bib top fabric-1/4 to 1/3 yard
• Bib under liner-1/4 to 1/3 yard
• Seam binding
• Sewing machine
• White paper
• Scissors
• Marker
• Pins
• Optional embellishments

Choosing the Fabic

1. For the top fabric make sure to use fabric that is absorbent. Terrycloth is traditional for this reason.
2. For the under liner you want something that will prevent liquid from soaking through the top layer and onto the clothing beneath. Plastic sheeting works best. It doesn't have to be clear though. If you are adding sewn embellishments you may want to add a colored liner so the back of the sewing isn't visible.

Creating the Pattern

1. Lay your cup and saucer face down on the paper with sides touching
2. Trace around both dishes being careful not to include a bump at the cups handle.
3. Remove the dishes.
4. Draw a line from the side of the cup drawing to the saucer drawing on both sides.
5. Cut out pattern removing the top of the cup drawing

Cutting the Fabrics

1. Lay out your fabric in a single layer.
2. Pin your paper pattern to the fabric and cut out the fabric.
3. Repeat the steps for the under liner.

Embellishing Your Bib

If you are going to embroider or add any embellishment that is sewn on, now is the time to do it. In this way the underside of it will be sealed in by the liner. If you go to all of the work to embroider or sew a personal emblem on the bib, you don't want the overall look to appear sloppy because the wrong side of the sewing is visible. If you embellish now, the backside will be hidden.

Sewing the Bib

1. Pin the bib fabrics together with the right side of the top fabric facing up.
2. Pin a piece of seam binding across the neck so that both fabric pieces are inserted into the fold of the binding. Sew through all layer with about 1/16th inch seam allowance.
3. Beginning at the front center of the bib, pin seam binding to the so that the fabric is inserted into the fold of the binding. Work out from the center on one side then the other.
4. Make sure the edges of the neck binding are inside the edge binding.
5. Allow the binding to extend off the edge of the bib by about a foot on each side.
6. Sew the binding from one end to the other with about 1/16th inch seam allowance.

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