how to make a baby tag cloth

I recently saw another mummy with a tag cloth for her bub to play with while traveling in the car. I loved the idea of having a bright and colourful item with different textures and scope for random attachments for Gwen to explore with hands and mouth. So I decided to make my own.

I chose two very different fabrics. the green cotton flannel comes from an op shop and cost about $0.50/m. the multicolour cotton is from godknowswhere and from memory was about $3/m.

Step 1 Cutting

1. First cut both of pieces of fabric to size. I didn't use a ruler. I just laid it out on the cutting mat and cut vaguely what I wanted. It worked out just over 20cm square.
2. Cut a variety of ribbons around about the same length. make sure they're not so big that your bubs hand will get stuck in them.

Comments

[Keijra]

Very cute! I will be making one of these soon for my own bub. One thing I would maybe think about changing would be to make the ribbons longer inside the cloth to make the tags a but sturdier and harder to pull out. Does that make sense? The loops stay the same size on the outside but the inside part is longer.

[wocket]

you could certainly do that, but don't really need to as they are double sewn into the cloth. be sure to get ribbons without stiff metal edges and make sure they won't break under stress...check them every month. the purple ones on the demo here disintegrated after 2 months and needed to be snipped off. :)

[Keijra]

Good point. Grosgrain would probably be the sturdiest, wouldn't it?

[justrho]

i LOVE this!!!!

[wocket]

thankyou :)