Nursing Poncho

The credit of this great pattern goes to my SIL J. who taught me how to make these. So a big Thank You to her!

Materials:

1 yard fabric - cut into 2 pieces that are twice as long as they are wide. A good size is 18" x 36" - You have 2 options for cutting your fabric. 1. you can use pinking shears which will make hemming a bit easier, or you can just use regular scissors and have to make one more roll when hemming. (more on that later)

A small 2" x 1" rectangle of fabric

Matching Thread

Iron

2 pieces of fabric

To start sew the short side of B to the long side of A: 

Next, sew the short side A to the long side of B:

If it's been sewn correctly then when the points are aligned it should make a square:

Next, press both seams open:

Now to open up the neck. Choose side will be the front and make a 1"-2" vertical cut down from the neck opening:

Now, press back the fabric on both sides to to open up the neck:

To finish off the neck fold under the raw edges and sew around; playing with the fabric as you get to the back seam.

To add a little reinforcement to the front neck opening sew in the small 1" x 2" fabric piece:

Now just hem it all the way around!

 I should have taken a better picture of folding the corner, but just do a nice job of folding the corners over:

And you're done!

I hope that this is easy to follow. Please leave a comment with any questions or clarification that you may have/need.