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Grandma's Baby Burp Rag Pattern PDF	Grandma has been making burp rags for decades, and she wanted to be able to share them with you.	Download | YouTube Video
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Longarm Machine Cover Pattern PDF	Machine Cover pattern measurements by Linda V. Taylor. Enjoy! This wideback fabric in warm brown tones features a flowing, subtle design perfect for quilt backs and large projects. Made from 100% cotton, it minimizes the need for seams, adding a smooth, earthy finish to your creations.	Download
Moving a Gammill Longarm Quilting Machine PDF	20 Page PDF document showing how to breakdown, move, and reassemble a Gammill Quilting Machine on a GS-1 table. This document does not cover how to remove a Light Bar, Hydraulics, Computers or Computerized motors.	Download
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Video Transcript: How to Make Baby Burp Rags — Grandma's Way

Prefer to read? Here is the full transcript of the "HOW TO MAKE Baby Burp Rags Grandma's way!" video (linked in the downloads table above, next to Grandma's Baby Burp Rag Pattern PDF), lightly edited for readability — every tip Corey and Grandma share is in here.

Hey everybody, it's Corey from Linda's Electric Quilters, and I am here today along with my grandma — thank you so much for joining me — to look at how she does these cute little burp rags. I guess it's just that season — I don't know what it is, but a lot of my friends are having babies, a lot of people in our family are having babies, so I think this works well for us, and we hope it works well for you as well. So with this pattern, I know that you have this cute little piece that you've worked off of for a long time. Yeah — most of my grandkids on this one. I had a different one with the kids; I like this pattern. Okay, so tell me kind of where we get started with this.

Okay, on these, the finished size is seven and a half by sixteen. This is my master pattern. A half a yard makes you two complete burp rags. The reason I have it thinner in the center is that it works better on my shoulder, and then it gives me the space — I use reversible, so that I can choose different colors, or in our case tonight it's the same color on both sides. So remember, half a yard will give you two complete — but we're only going to cut one out tonight. So we're doing a half yard of fabric, and this is just a standard 44- or 45-inch-wide fabric, correct? Right. And so I'm going to cut it out — I'm just taking a standard rotary cutter, nothing super precise, I'm just following around; it makes it a little easier to do. I will go all the way around this; I do a quarter-inch seam.

And everybody, while she's doing that, make sure you subscribe to our channel — it's going to be at the bottom right-hand corner. After you click on that subscribe button, make sure you click on the little bell that shows up, so you can get notified whenever we post new videos or whenever we go live on our show. And another thing while she's doing that: this pattern that she has right here — a PDF version will be available on our website, courtesy of Grandma. You'll be able to find that under the Free Digital Downloads section, and then you can make these amazing burp rags with this quick little pattern right here. They're fun to make, they're easy, and I love using all the different colors when I make them.

So then we remove the pattern, correct? Okay, so I'm going to leave a small slit here in the center, but I'm not going to sew on it till I turn it over. So remember: right sides together — oh yeah, that'll make a difference on color there, right, because we're going to flip it inside out. So, right sides together, got it. I'm going to go over here and I'm going to do a quarter-inch seam. Ready? So your reverse button on yours is down here. You've got a nice quarter-inch foot there, a stitch length of two — and you were just flying through that. Yeah, the gas pedal, you know — I need to push on it more; I like going fast. I'm just working around that, just work all the way through — get these out really, really fast, a whole little set. Even a quick thing if maybe you forgot — when you're on the way to the baby shower, you totally forgot a gift — real quick, just whip some of these up real fast. And you're leaving — whenever you're getting closer, you're leaving how many, four or five inches maybe? Yeah, give or take. And then you're doing that reverse stitch just to lock it in.

And then we can cut off — I didn't bring my scissors up here. On the quarter-inch seam you usually don't have as much issue, but I'm an old seamstress — my grandma taught me — so on your curves, take your scissors and cut — oh, well, let's see that. I bet I can grab you some scissors real quick. Okay, so I found you some scissors, and these are yours — I know you love these. Yeah. Okay, so show me what you mean by these little cuts. So I go around the edges — some people will cut just a slant. Got it. Okay, the other technique that a lot of people will do is make a V; either way works — it depends on what you grew up doing. Usually in clothing I'll make more of a V, but on these they're so quick and easy, I just usually go like this. So explain to me the reasoning, or the method behind these little cuts — what is this allowing it to do? It allows your curves to lay nice and flat; without them, it can bundle up, or you get little bumps. Yeah, just on the curves. And this is — you're kind of just eyeballing the distance? No, I do about an inch; some people will measure, but — okay — you know what you're doing is, when you turn it, you're allowing that full fabric to fold. Gotcha. Okay. It just makes it easier, definitely. Some people don't go this far; you know, we'll go closer, some people go farther — it's just completely personal preference. It just allows it so the fabric will fold in on itself and give you a nice smooth curve.

Okay, so I'm going to come over here and I'm going to open this up — so I'm flipping it totally over. Okay. Sometimes it likes to fight you a little bit — you know, anytime you do that — and you can leave a little wider curve; I've gotten used to doing it, and two or three inches is all I do. So you just — you want this open? Yep. Some people will have a little seam thing that goes around here that helps lay the seam down. Oh yeah, yeah — and if you don't have it, you know, you just want to make it so that it's nice and smooth. Yeah — when we did our pillowcase video, I used a mechanical pencil and just went in there and kind of set it — without the lead, obviously — and just was able to smooth out those seams really nice. Yeah, you just — you know, the seams lay nicer. Yeah, I definitely see what you meant by perforating those edges — that looks a whole lot nicer. I don't see any bumps on that at all; that's just a nice smooth edge. So that was a great tip.

So then afterwards, I always iron — I'm a big ironer. Okay — again, that's the way my grandma taught me. Gotcha. So the biggest thing is that I want my seam to be nice and smooth. Sometimes it's easier — just open it up and go like this, so you get a nice smooth — then I bring it out and press it down. Okay, so now my seam — nice and flat, nice and smooth. Yeah, nice and flat and smooth. Again, I do that all the way around, and that makes it so that I can do my topstitching. Gotcha. I'm enthused by this iron trick — let me see if I can do it. Yeah. Okay, I like this idea here — and this is where we're using flannel? Yes. Okay, yeah — we're using 100% cotton flannel. So we have that nice open like that, taking this, pressing down — yeah, a nice press. Once that's done — oh, that's nice. And then pressing that — correct. That was nice. Oh, that's beautiful compared to what it was when I was doing it a second ago. So this, you fold in — okay — again, you're matching your quarter-inch seams up. Okay, okay. And again, I press everything down, because it makes it easier when I'm working on it to have it pressed. Okay — I'm being careful not to burn your finger. Yeah. So I have it all nice and ironed out.

Okay, I bring it back to the sewing machine. Now, this — everybody will have a preference: for some people it would be easier just to make a seam without a quarter-inch pressure foot, or you make it with a quarter-inch pressure foot. Since we already have that on tonight, we're just going to make it with that. Okay, gotcha. And so the finish out on this — you're just doing a straight line; you don't have to take this to a serger or anything? No. Oh, that's lovely — no, no, I did everything with the straight machine; that's what I started out with. I didn't get sergers until the 1980s or so. Okay, so this is the way I learned — in fact, I started on a treadle. Oh, gotcha. So the other thing that people may have a preference on: some will put a stitch right across here. Okay. Some will take it in hand, so that that opening spot — gotcha. Because I'm usually doing a bunch of them, and I just want to — you know, it's kind of more production — and so I close that just by making it right at the edge. Oh, okay. And again, you can go all the way around and have it like a double-sided little channel, or you can do one — it just really depends on your time and what you're looking at. Right, but if you're matching your threads, you can see that it doesn't really show anymore. So like on this one, I did a double — right, I did it that way on purpose, because of the fabric I used on this side: it's a gauze, where this side is a flannel. Okay, where on these here, I did a single. Oh, okay. And then just that little cover stitch — and then that little cover, right, I got it. And if you wouldn't have pointed that out, I wouldn't even have noticed that there was either one there or not there — it's just nice and easy. I love this, so cute.

So there's ones that I did at times where I would embroider right here. Right. Or appliqué, depending on how fancy — and, you know, what you're doing it for. Right — who it's going for, or if it's certain — yeah, no, some people already know what monograms and names — right, you put your name down here. I mean, there are several different ways. And I love the two-sided colors — yeah, you can have kind of multiple different things, whatever you're in the mood for when it comes to color. Right — and this one in particular, they wanted — these are their colors for their baby room, so this is what we made. Oh, I love that. And then this — I love that cutout for your shoulder; it just fits right there. That's nice, makes it nice. Oh, beautiful, awesome.

Well, thank you so much for joining us and showing us how easy it is to quickly put together one of these beautiful burp rags. Make sure, again, that you go to our website to grab that free digital download burp rag pattern, courtesy of Grandma. All right, we'll see you next time. Bye, you.