My local Hancocks has towel fabric that is good. Wash it before making the bibs. It soaks up a lot of dribbles from baby's learning to feed themselves.

Marcelle

I use either terry kitchen towels or the terry bath hand towels. Both are really absorbent, can be embroidered on easily, and wash up like a dream.

I use veloured terrycloth, nice and soft to the touch on one side and terrycloth of better obsortion on the other.
Sometimes I use 100% cotton and line the underside with wipe away vinyl (for the drooling stage LOL).
hugs
Michelle

I just made about 2 dozen bibs using 3 layers of flannel. I wish I had thought about asking this question before I made all of them. This gives me some good ideas for the future. Thanks for the question and for the answers.
Mylinda-

Up to now I have only made Bibs on towelling.

I use the single sided terry and then back it with a cotton print. I bought out a small sewing business last year and they threw in several industrial sized rolls of assorted fabrics; the terry was one. I'll have enough to last three lifetimes!!

I was gonna try the cotton sheeting, I do not like the edge though, and really did not want to bid them all. I thought most were done on blanks?

Hi, I have just cut off 4 pair of jeans and made shorts. I kept the bottoms and open the inside side
seams. I plan to make a bib out of these. I saw a pattern made by tracing around a plate and then using the plate again to come down on the circle
to make a neckline. They used binding. I plan to use
2 pieces of the denim and 1 of flannel in between
the denim put 2 buttonholes at the neckline and
sew all around about 5/8 inch. Clip all around and
then wash. Sort of like the rag quilts. I will use
pieces of the hem cut off put thru the buttonholes
and tied in a knot to make the ties to go around the neck. I will emb a design on the front piece
before I put together. Alot of this is still in my
head. Maureen

I use towell fabric, is very absorbent and easy to wash