Looks pretty simple, right? You'd never guess that it took me the best part of a week (in grabbed moments) to get this binding on and looking acceptable. I'm used to hand finishing bias binding (on quilts), but since I'm planning to make a bundle of these to go in my soon-to-be-opened organic baby shop, I really needed to come up with a better solution. I think I've finally cracked it! The size and style (with a generous hood in one corner) is based on towels that my sister and I had as babies, then kids - (they doubled up as hair towels well into our teenage years).
The binding is made from some random fabric that my sister bought in Thailand a year or so ago as I didn't want to waste lovely organic fabric on a test run that was, inevitably, going to go wrong half a dozen times. The towel is the real deal though - gorgeously thick organic cotton terry toweling. As with all the products I'm making, it'll be subjected to a couple of weeks of hard use before I commit to ordering (and making) more.
This sample is heading Teddy's way - the poor child has been making do with his one baby bath towel and/or sharing his daddy's towel for the past year or so.
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