Here in Australia, we have what we call a bunny rug which is an essential item for newborn babies. It is a large square of fabric usually made from one hundred percent cotton flannelette and used to swaddle baby.
Little Miss Six of course had many of these as a newborn. She loved being swaddled and without swaddling would have trouble getting off to sleep.
Recently, her Mum has made a little bit of pocket money by selling no longer needed items of clothing, toys, etc on an on-line garage sale site that we have here in the Blue Mountains. But it seems everybody wants new bunny rugs for their babies because these just do not move. So, I bought them off her and made myself some very long lasting dish cloths with them.
I ironed and folded each square into four using the fold line to then cut it into quarters.
This one originally had rounded corners so I marked the freshly cut corners using a plate of the right size as a guide to match the original corners.
Next I trimmed them with sharp scissors to match the original corners. I kept the original hemming and simply finished off the newly cut edges by matching them to whatever was on the original rugs. Those that had overlocked edges I overlocked.
Those that had turned edges I turned.
In all I made sixteen new dishcloths.
Of course, new dishcloths need a tidy under-the-kitchen-sink-cupboard. So I gave it a spring clean, even though it's almost autumn.
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