Baby Shower Idea - Washcloth Candies

Cute little socks made into flower bouquets or even a corsage, diapers turned into cakes, all manner of cute baby things transformed into something a little bit different for a celebration of birth... these are the cute touches that add to baby showers just that little something.  Some people may not notice them at all, but that is ok.  It's about the mom, and the baby, and sometimes that little extra detail just adds a special something.

Since most of the items we did for the baby shower we found on pinterest (and then modified to our own liking), I will not post tutorials on them here.  However, the little washcloth candies I will!

I'm sorry the picture isn't very good.  I didn't actually take a closeup of them.

These are super simple to make!  I bought a pack of four baby washcloths from the local Dollarama.  I needed one for the diaper 'tricycle', so I turned the rest into these little candies.  First... a list of what you need.

Tools:
Scissors

Crafts:
Pack of washcloths
cheesecloth/tulle
ribbon

That's it.  Since the washcloths came packaged in white tulle already, and I saved the packaging from the sets I bought for the cloths I bought for cloth diapering, I just used those!

Take the cheesecloth and cut it to about 5 inches by 8 inches, as many as you need.  It doesn't have to be exact.  I just took two sets of the packaging from the cloths and trimmed off the seams, then cut the bottom open.  Just be sure that they are big enough to wrap around the coils of cloth with a bit of overlap.

Roll the cloths into a 'snake', and then coil them from the center outward to look like a little lollipops.  If you need to, you can stitch a little handstitch on the outside piece to hold it together.  I didn't find this necessary.

Wrap the tulle around the cloth circle.  You can do a stitch here to keep it closed, or tape it to hold 'for now'.  Take your pieces of ribbon and tie into bows on the tulle that is on the ends to make it look like the wrapped cellophane on candies.  Fluff the tulle after tying.

You're done!

Since the Dollarama cloth set came with a ribbon on the packaging, and I kept the packaging from the previous sets I bought, I just reused all the packaging from two sets to wrap these up!  I even took the seams I cut off and used them as 'ribbons', as they looked totally cute and old fashioned to me.