Followup to Monkeying Around

A few weeks ago, I posted blog about some of the burp cloths I had made. I finished up the batch I was making for a friend who had requested some and I wanted to show them to you.

This was the first one I did in this set.

I super creepy Facebook stalked my friend's pictures of her baby's nursery. This monkey was one of the decals on the wall. Sometimes she calls Abby her little monkey. This was the first time I'd appliqued a picture onto a burp cloth. I really love the extra touches of the banana and the hair bow. One of the cool things with this monkey is that his darker brown parts are corduroy, so there is a fun texture. 
Funny side story here: Every time I think of corduroy, I think of my grandfather. He said that when he was a kid, people used to call corduroy pants "whistle britches" because they whistled when you walked in them. HAHAHAHA!!!
 

I wanted to show you a close up of how close I sew to the edge of the fabric.

Burp cloth #2. The patterned material is a printed duck fabric. Everything else is a grosgrain ribbon.

Close to the edge again.

Cloth #3. I love this monkey ribbon I found. While the fabric didn't look good with the coloring of the ribbon, I still wanted to include pink in there to keep the cloths cohesive.

Cloth #4. After I finished her name applique, it still looked like it needed something more. I added this raspberry large ricrack and thought it really brought it together. I really love this jumbo ricrack. I've only been able to find it at Hobby Lobby, though.

Cloth #5. I really like how the letters pop with the dark brown outlining.

This was actually a re-do of the first one I gave her. The sizing was off (in my opinion) and the W in the middle wasn't large enough. I think this really corrected it. I really do like the look of this fabric.

Monkeying Around in Pink

That's all of them! I really like how they turned out. You can't really see it, but in the middle of this picture under the aWg monogram is a paci clip I made, too. I'd never made one before, so I kinda just threw it in at the last minute. I didn't take any pictures - I forgot.

Hope you like them!