I started making dribble bibs a few months ago and had originally settled on the basic triangle shape. To start with they worked great. I sent a few off to some mummy and baby testers and also tried on on Sock Baby. How unfortunate it was that as soon as I opened my order book and took a nice little order for dribble bibs, that things started to go wrong. To start with I thought it was the sewing machine. The tension was all wrong and was gathering up as I sewed each edge of the bib. I'd had this problem before and it had been easily resolved by a slight adjustment on the machine. This time however, nothing I did seemed to make the problem better. It soon became apparent that the fabric was stretching under the sewing machine foot as I was sewing. I persevered as I really didn't want to let my customer down. The problem just kept getting worse and worse. To make matters even worse, I no longer had enough of the fabric to just cut and start again. What a nightmare! Eventually I did get the bibs finished, although they had to be undone and re-stitched several times. I decided that I can't be doing with this every time, so decided I'd create a new shape for the bib.
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| The basic triangle design |
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| Folded |
I looked at lots of different branded bibs that Sock Baby owns and decided to make my new shape a bit more slim lined than the triangle bib, but with finish that didn't look too different when folded and worn. I also decided to use a more absorbent backing fabric. You can see the new bibs in the photos below. There are currently 3 in the post on the way to testers to try out. Once I have the thumbs up they will go into production and be able to buy through the website and facebook page.
