Purl Soho's Liberty Baby Bib Kits!

Joelle was in California recently, visiting her adorable new niece Bobbie Rae. She noticed that Bobbie was using a lot of bibs, and that the most effective were super absorbent. When she came back to New York she had the idea that we should design a bib that was both beautiful and totally useful.

As you might have noticed by now, when we want to make something truly special and beautiful, we often turn to Liberty of London's Tana Lawn. The lovely detailed prints of Tana Lawn are legendary! Its silky hand is soft enough for a very precious baby gift, but still strong enough to stand up to repeated washings.

To add absorbency we decided to back the bibs with Michael Miller's 100% Organic Cotton Terry, which is another perennial favorite at Purl Soho. We just love the combination of these two fabrics so we decided to pick out multiple colorways and our Liberty Bib Bib Kits were born. We hope you'll agree that they'll make perfect baby shower gifts!

Each Liberty Baby Bib Kit makes 4 bibs (2 of each print).  The kit includes 2 fat-eights of Liberty of London's Tana Lawn in complementary colors, 1/2 yard of Michael Miller's 100% Organic Cotton Terry, Gutermann 100% cotton sewing thread, 4 large nickel plated snaps, complete directions and a pattern template. 

These bibs are a breeze to sew, you could easily make a whole set in one afternoon. You can find our Liberty Baby Bib Kits right here, or create your own by following along with our Liberty Baby Bib Project Journal right here.

Comments

[Jane]

Ooh! The perfect combination of form and function, beauty and durability. I ♥ them!

[tante sophie]

... baby boys don't drool and spit up huh ... there are so many adorable "boy" prints in liberty ... ya'll should think of the boys too!!! ... hi paw says gumby!!!

[Annette]

Oh what fun! Two of my closest friends just recently had babies and this will be just perfect.

[Kekumukula]

What an awesome idea and gift it would make.

[Mary Beth at ✄ Fabric U ✄]

I love Liberty of London prints...this would be a great way to use up scraps of this expensive fabric...and you'd never throw away these bibs. Is that terry cloth on the flip side? Great idea.

[elaine]

I was coming here to request boy bib prints, but tante sophie beat me to it! Although the blue colorway one can be sort of boyish. My baby boy wears pink diapers leftover from his sister, so why not add some flowery bibs! :)

[purl bee]

Hi Elaine and Ina,
When we made the kits we specifically picked the blue and red bibs for boys. Clearly neither of you consider them to be boyish enough though, which we are surprised to hear.

We'd love to hear back from you and anyone else interested in commenting about what makes something suitable for baby boys (or not) so we make sure to think about it for future projects.

thanks for your thoughts!
Purl Bee

[OrangeFarmhouse - Maike]

love these colorful bibs!

[Josie]

In my previous carreer designing kids clothing doing the boy's collections was always a challenge. We could generally use blue, green, brown ,black and orange for boys. Red was very iffy. No dots, definatly no flowers, unless they were Hawaiian. Stripes were fine as were checks ,ginghams and plaids. Prints were usually limited to sports themes , trucks & cars , dogs (not cats), monsters, reptiles and bugs.

[tante sophie]

purliebees ... there are a bunch of cute prints for boys ... not that i don't like flower prints for boys ... but with plenty boy prints to pick from here is the list ...

teal rust josephine
grey chris
purple chris
winter thistle
green patrick's
takako navy orange
blue bicycles
pink bicycles (girlie)
red bicycles

... happy days ... happy sewing ... happy everything ... lovingly ... ina and gumby!

[tante sophie]

purliebees ... i betcha if ya' mixed up the mod' with the expected and made it two different girlie prints and two different boy prints per pack people of all preferences would buy them like hot cakes 'cause you could gift them mix and match ... hi paw ... says gumby!!!

[Kimu]

I wish you had some gender neutral combos! Not all of us are into blue for boys & pinks for girls.

[heather]

These are adorable, and so durable!

[jill]

Hi Purl Bee!

Since you asked for comments on the kits from parents of young boys, I love the blue for my son Connor (3 months old) and the red as well, especially the one that looks like fans. Neutral combos would be nice as well, as Kimu suggested above.

Jill

[jill t]

yeah, i wish i could be progressive and not think that those are too feminine, but i really wouldn't choose any of those options for my son. would love green patrick's and takako in navy/orange. i know they don't make as nice of a color story, but they would both be boy enough (for me, at least).

[Champagne Maker]

OH MY! These are cute! Wish my bigs were still littles!!!

[Linda-1st time grandma to be]

I can't wait to make these - being a first time grandma I am on the lookout for anything "baby" - oh baby - I will be making these tommorrow. I love all the colors you used - babies are so sweet, they can were any color.

[Jo]

I've always thought that patterned and multicoloured material is perfect for baby bibs as the inevitable stains won't be so obvious. Great choice of fabrics!

[Barbara]

Completely adorable ... thank you for inspiring us all ...

[Janimal]

I made a gazillion bibs when I was pregnant. How lovely that you have these kits to make it easier for everyone to do! I make bibs for friends now, and for boys I make sure the fabric is VERY boyish. I can imagine a print you have, I think by Kokka, that is all little cars.....
LOVE the Liberty used as a bib. I just cut some Liberty that I bought from you guys last weekend, and am determined to make sure I use every last little cut of it. Oh what pretty bibs I could make! Thanks for the inspiration.

[Penny]

I love the bibs and would love the blue ones to make for our first Great-grandchild, however it is not available? Will it be again?

[purl bee]

Hi Penny,
Yes it will be, hopefully even this afternoon, please stay tuned! You can also email us at the following link and we'll let you know as soon as we have more kits ready.
thanks so much!
http://www.purlsoho.com/purl/contact

[Janice M. Biscoe]

How sweet! I have another idea to enlarge the bibs. These are precious but I can also see them being used for adults in certain situations. Could there, would there, would you be able to adapt the pattern for adults? The fabrics are wonderful and I would be first in line to purchase. Thank you!

[jessb]

This are super easy to make! I just whipped up a bunch in an afternoon- I cut them all out at once, pinned them together, sewed, pressed- just gotta sew on the snaps tonight. Perfect baby shower gifts! Love em! Thank you for this pattern-

[Angela]

I was lucky enough to see Miss Bobbie Rae herself while shopping at the CA Purl warehouse yesterday, and she is sooooo adorable!

[Notes from Holly St.]

I am in love...I think it's the perfect first project to make for my little bun in the oven!

[jen]

aww... thanks angela!

jen

[a little crafty nest]

Oh my! This looks soooo good! Just yesterday I came across a similar idea to prevent the drooling of a little babe and now this! Perfect for my three month old! I love your fabric selections, too! Great idea...I'll have to do this! Thanks!
xo Jules

[Olelé]

I adore Liberty fabrics! But never thought they could be used for this kind of projects, haha!

[amber]

wow, this is such a great idea. I am inspired to complete my first sewing project!

[elaismom]

what a gr8 idea....too bad we dont get those kits in austria. would really love to sew bibs for my son.