7 Machine Embroidery Projects For a New Baby

Is a new baby coming into your life, perhaps a grandson or daughter? Or maybe you need a baby shower gift for a friend's baby. If you have an embroidery machine, you can create a variety of unique personalized baby gifts.

Personalized gifts are such fun to make and give. They demonstrate a level of thoughtfulness and care that you just don't get in store-bought gifts. Baby gifts are often cute, fun and colorful -- just perfect for embellishing with a personal touch of embroidery. And parents love personalized gifts for their baby.

First, embroider an adorable motif. You can go funny, cute, or pretty with flowers, animals, alphabets, sports, cartoon characters or anything you like. Then, for the personalized touch, add the baby's name, initials, date of birth, birth weight, and/or any cute, meaningful, or inspiring saying.

Here are seven useful baby items that you could add some zing to with your creative touch:

Burp Cloths - In addition to a cute motif such as a cow, people love to embroider funny or clever sayings such as 'Got Milk' or 'Spit Happens.' Or you can simply embroidery the baby's name with a flower or cartoon figure.

Bibs are easy and very cute to design. Just stitch a larger motif in the middle and add the baby's first name.

All kinds of clothes -- sleep suits, bodysuits, shirts and dresses, bootees, hats. You could make a complete outfit with matching embroidered designs or just one item. To make it special, personalize it by embroidering her name or a slogan like 'Daddy's Little Girl.' If you knit, you can make adorable little hats. Baby hats are such fun to knit because they're cute and go so fast. Or buy plain hats and embroider adorable designs on them. Booties can be knitted or just embroidered with a tiny motif and initial. Cute sayings delight the parents and make everyone smile. This is your opportunity to create something completely different.

Baby blankets embroidered with the child's name or initials and date of birth and weight and length at birth.

Hooded towels are adorable and practical to wrap the baby in after a bath. Personalize it with the baby's name or initials.

Baby washcloths and towels.

Baby totes are very useful because babies always have a lot of stuff that needs to be carried around with them. Personalize them with their name or initials or a nice design.

Make your next baby gift extra special by adding your own creative touch. In this world of machines and factories, nothing says how much you care like something handmade.