Awhile back I attended a baby shower for none other than skirt as top. I guess you’ve got all the gear you need by the time you get to baby #3, so this was a diaper shower. But I couldn’t very well bring diapers without sewing something to hold them. Kristin has sewn a multitude of Divided Baskets as baby gifts, which I figured must mean she thinks they make good baby gifts, right? So I went with that. I looked through her Camp Ivanhoe Pinterest board to see what might work with the baby’s new room, and picked out a fabric from Sarah Watson’s Indian Summer line.
The Divided Basket is one of many wonderful Noodlehead patterns. This is my third basket (first two here) – it’s such a fun pattern with such a useful end result, and it’s surprisingly quick to sew after you get everything interfaced. This time I followed Anna’s advice from this post and used Pellon 809 in conjunction with fusible fleece for the main basket pieces. If you’re using all quilting cottons, this combination of interfacing gives the basket a nice amount of structure.
I also made some burp cloths by binding the edges of some cloth prefolds, same as the ones I made before Oscar was born.
Baby skirt as top, I can’t wait to meet you and maybe even mop up a little of your cute spit! 🙂
Pattern :: Noodlehead Divided Basket
Basket Fabrics :: Sarah Watson’s Woodland Pine, Moda Crossweave in Aqua, Kaffe Fasset spots in Sprout
Burp Cloths :: Joel Dewberry’s Herringbone True Colors in Turquoise, Lizzy House’s Pearl Bracelet in Tin Man, Dena Fishbein’s Tarika in Moss
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So sweet! Really want to go upstairs and sew TODAY.
So lovely! I bought this pattern as my go-to gift for baby showers.
So cute! This really is a great pattern. I’ll have to get some pellon 809 because my quilting-cotton basket from this pattern does tend to droop a bit. Hope you got to enjoy all that snow Portland seemed to be getting!
This is so cute! I love your fabric choices…well done!
Always love all your projects! For the burp cloths, do you wash them before binding and gifting? Any problem with binding the edge before washing and shrinkage? Thanks!
thanks! yes, i prewashed on hot before binding – i thought it would be best since the prefolds do tend to shrink up quite a bit after washing.
What an adorable present! It looks fantastic.
Now you’ve got me thinking this baby will burp stylishly in aqua, grey and mustard colourways!
Very cute basket and I love that one is making it’s way back to Kristin. I’ve always admired hers.
love this so much gail. Every little bit is so good. And all the goodies you included just make it such a thoughtful and useful gift. 🙂
I love this! That basket is so perfect for the Camp Ivanhoe room and how nice to give it so someone who has made so many of them for others! I’ve got some extra unused prefolds and I think I’m going to copy the binding idea for the baby shower I’m attending on Saturday.
I love it! This is one of my favorite fabrics ever. And the baby is here now!
it’s perfect. it’s soooooo perfect. thank you so much, gail, it made me cry when i opened the present and saw what you’d made. you’re such a thoughtful gal.
and i can vouch that it is getting tons of use as a diaper/extra clothes/accessory caddy in our bedroom during these first days with a newborn! much easier to just change him in our room in the middle of the night than run upstairs every time. and the burp cloths are awesome too – absorbent AND adorable. NAILED IT. thanks again, friend!!