Adventures in sewing

My mother-in-law bought me a sewing machine for Christmas because I voiced the need to be able to hem my own clothing (rockin 5'0 over here :)). The only minor hiccup is that I haven't sewn anything since my h.s. home economics class years and years ago...eek!  Still, I took the bull by the horns (so to speak) and after a little practice I was ready to tackle my first project; burp cloths.  I chose this project because the tutorial on Pinterest seemed SUPER simple and I have 4 baby showers in the next 3 months.  Perfect, right?  Let's just say that sewing a rectangle was slightly more difficult than I thought it would be???  Feel free to tell me what I'm doing wrong??

I started with this fabric that I purchased from Joanns.  Flannel prints and chenille for my backing.

I followed all the steps on the tutorial only to find that my fabrics like to slip about a 1/2inch or so regardless of how well I pin them?  Is this just the nature of the two fabrics together?  I dunno, I need to ask the experts I guess.  The good thing is that this project is very forgiving and I think they turned out pretty darn good.  Hope my mommy's-to-be like them.  I know we do!

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"Now if only you had a fake baby to burp" --Clay