I visited my local fabric shop and bought some lovely striped fabric from the sale basket. It’s soft and stretchy—I suspect it’s a blend of cotton and some elastic fibre like elastane. Of course, I didn’t know what I would do with it once I bought it; that was a problem for future me to figure out!
In the end, I decided quite quickly that it would be the perfect material for soft baby blocks. Once I finished another batch of reversible bibs, I began cutting out long strips of the correct width. These were then cut into squares and ironed flat. I needed five blocks, which meant 30 squares, plus some extra for the inevitable mistakes.
As patterns go, it doesn’t get much simpler than a cube, but Bombshell Bling’s soft blocks guide was still helpful. The only “mistake” I made was my first attempt at appliqué. The result was not pretty, and I was worried the project would be delayed while I spent time learning. In the end, it turned out that watching a couple of videos on YouTube was sufficient to give me results I was happy with. This is the benefit of making stuff for babies—they can’t really complain. Well, they can, but not specifically about shoddy workmanship.
Fortunately, they proved an instant hit. Aaron grabbed them, threw them, and enjoyed watching us pass them back and forth. I even juggled three of them. He didn’t clap, but I think he was impressed.
