I fell in love with it and just went wild with all the ideas of patterns and colors that I could do. Well I went with my boyfriend to Joann's and we wandered around looking for an hour. We knew we had to get it that day b/c they had their fabric on 30% off. We found this really adorable nursery fabric that had blocks and BABY in them. It also had cute little handprints and footprints on it. They were perfect colors for a boy in light yellow, green, blue, cream and brown. That helped me pick the other colors that I wanted. Now I waited on what flannel fabric I was going to buy cuz we were on a budget so a week or so later Joann's had their flannel on sale. I took the patterned fabric with me and found a light blue, a light yellow, and a light green with polka dot fabric. I then also bought the Ivy satin blanket binding and a washable fabric marker from them too. I bought 3 spools of cream thread from Walmart since it was cheaper and then went straight to work.
HERE'S WHAT YA NEED:
- 1 cotton fabric (mine was 43" wide so I did 45" in length)
- 3 flannel fabrics that go with the cotton fab. (again 43" wide 45"length)
- 2-3 spools of thread
- 1 pkg of satin binding
- scissors
- fabric marker
- straight pins
- string or yard stick
- plate or anything for a round corner
- washer/dryer
I lost a few pictures but what i did was lay my cotton patterned fabric face down on the floor and put my 3 flannels on top with the colors facing up. I pinned them all together with my straight pins and then measuring them making it 41" every side. The blanket may shift on you so the cuts don't have to be perfect b/c you will be trimming here and there. After it is all pinned together start sewing. I did a straight middle sew and started in the middle of my blanket. You will be sewing diagonally down the blanket from one corner to the next. To make a straight line flip the blanket over so your pattern is up and lay a yard stick or string from one corner to the other and mark the line. OH AND SEW WITH THE PATTERN FACING YOU SO THE "UGLY" SIDE STITCHES WILL BE ON THE BOTTOM YOU'LL SEE WHY AT THE END.
On mine I didn't do the measure for the first line b/c my pattern had boxes on it where I could just sew diagonal in the boxes. So for me I sewed the middle lines through all the boxes first. Next I took my yard stick and my marker and measured 2 lines inside the already sewn ones.
I sewed where I drew the lines all through the blanket.
This is what it looks on the back half. Don't mind the puckers it won't matter.
When you are all done sewing trim all the sides and get off any fabric that is hanging over and square it all up. Next comes a pretty tedious task.
Grab your scissors and start snipping between the stitches. JUST CUT THE FLANNEL DON'T GO ALL THE WAY THROUGH TO THE PATTERNED FABRIC!!!
Once you're all done cutting the lines lay your blanket flat on the ground and lay a plate on the corner to give you the rounded edge. I marked it with my marker and then cut. Use that 1st corner as your guide for the next ones.
It'll look like this.
Next take out your satin binding and press it out with the iron. Don't iron on the satin side it will make it look funky. Then you'll iron it to how big you want your binding. Mine was a 2" bind that i folded in half to make a 1" bind for my blanket.
Then you'll take your straight pins and pin it to your blanket. More pins around the corners and start sewing. at the end fold the binding on itself and just stitch it closed.
Now you're almost done. Throw it in the wash with a little detergent and then dry. The dryer makes the flannel frill and get all wavy and beautiful! That's why you stitch with the pattern up b/c the ugly stitches or your mess ups get covered up by the frill. Also it only frills if you cut on the bias hence why you sew diagonally.
This is the softest blanket ever and the more you wash it the more it will frill! It has kind of the puffy feeling quilts do with all the stitching going on but isn't near as heavy or bulky as quilts can get. If you sew your lines closer together I bet the tighter the frill would be and it may do more!
Here is the blanket all finished and ready to be sent home to CO for baby! I had to wait until today to put this up b/c she wasn't getting it until her baby shower which was the afternoon. I made this back in January so my mom had been holding on to it for a long time!
Hope you all enjoy and if you have any questions definitely feel free to ask and look at the blog with the original post. She has lots of great ideas and projects and can show you how to do different bindings and some pretty good photos on how to make the blanket that I didn't.
My next post will show what I did with the scraps and how to make burp clothes.
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