Wipe in style.

What do you sew a seamstress?  What can you build a carpenter?  It's always difficult to think of gifts for the crafty sort...but I received the most perfect sewn gift for my sweet baby Ollie that I would have never made myself.  Cloth baby wipes!  Even having one child's worth of cloth diapers under my belt, I had never considered the idea of reusable wipes – until I was given some.

First finding out that they were made from upcycled flannel receiving blankets hooked me on the idea.  I then considered the prospect of not having to go to the store in the middle of the night for a case of wipes and was sold – hook, line and sinker.

Seven weeks in and the wipes are divine.  I even carry my squirt bottle with solution (water, baby oil, lavender shampoo) out and about...the disposable wipes don't even make the short list for trips around town.  So when a crafty friend had a new baby just a few days ago, there was only one gift to give/make.  Here's what a set of girly wipes looks like:

Here are the specs:
2 receiving blankets (generic store brand 100% cotton flannel)
cut in 6" squares (making smaller wipes from the scraps)
stitch right-sides-together, flip, press, top-stitch border

So simple and they'll wear like iron.  Here are a few additional uses for cloth baby wipes (not that I would be taking these from personal experience):
breast milk cleanup
nursing pad
booger duty
big kid faces
general household cleaning
coasters
...you name it...they're all over my house and the first thing I grab in a sticky situation!