Personalized Baby Blankets: How to Make a Baby Blanket

Watching a baby sleeping calmly is a treat for your eyes. The tiny nose, the cute red lips and the peaceful expression a baby's face has while sleeping, makes you forget everything. You just feel like looking at the baby for hours and hours. How about contributing a bit to these sweet moments? Learn how to make a baby blanket and watch your baby sleep calmly. Just try it and you will experience how easy it is. You can have personalized baby blankets, making it a very special gift for your baby.

How to Make a Baby Blanket

Materials You will Need:

• Printed fabric (1 yard)
• Coordinating soft solid fabric (satin, woolen fabric, fur) (1 yard)
• Cotton batting (1 yard)
• Thread
• Needle
• Scissors
• Pins
• Sewing machine

Procedure:

Step 1: Take the 1 yard fabric, which will be on the top. Go for a plain or printed fabric in pink color if it's for a baby girl or a blue one if it is for a baby boy. There are a bundle of other options available while choosing patterned fabric. Floral prints, stripes, polka dots, geometrical prints, animal prints are some of the beautiful designs in which fabrics are available. Choose a light and cool color, don't opt for a very gaudy one. Cut this fabric, cotton batting and solid fabric equally into a 29 inch square each.

Step 2: Spread the cotton batting square.

Step 3: Now, place the two fabrics over it.

Step 4: Make sure the right sides of these two fabrics face each other.

Step 5: Pin the three layers together. This will be helpful during the process of stitching.

Step 6: Sew these three pinned layers together. Remove the pins as the pinned part of fabric reaches the needle. Use a half-inch seam to stitch them.

Step 7: On one side, keep a length of 5-inches open.

Step 8: Sever the excess fabric from the corners.

Step 9: Turn the stitched fabrics right side out.

Step 10: Then stitch the 5-inch opening. You can fold the two outermost fabrics about one and a half inch inwards and stitch that fold from the top with smallest stitch length setting. Keeping this stitch at the extreme borders will give it a good look.

Step 11: Your baby blanket is ready, but it needs some finishing.

Step 12: Sew a border stitch on the blanket. This stitch can be between ¼ inch to 1 inch inwards from the borders. Maintain the same distance in case of each of the border lines.

Step 13: You can use a simple pattern or any of the decorative stitch patterns available on your sewing machine.

Step 14: This will give a fine and finished look to the blanket.

Step 15: You can further decorate it to enhance its look.

Ideas for Personalized Baby Blankets

Adding a Message
You can do this with embroidery or paints. If you think embroidery is a daunting task, you are wrong. Attempt it and you will surely be surprised with yourself. Consider embroidering messages like sweet dreams, good night or the baby's initials and birth date. Painting an inspirational quote or a phrase is also a great idea.

Patch Work
You can use fabric patches to beautify the blanket. A fabric in contrast to that of the blanket color, cut in the shape of alphabets, is a perfect piece to be stitched over to form initials. You can also patch the whole set of alphabets randomly. A patch of teddy bear or doll print will make a perfect baby blanket.

Avoid using buttons, strings or removable items over it. These items can cause choking if the child places it in his/her mouth. Now, if I ask you, "how to make a baby blanket?", I am sure your imagination and creativity will make a truly unique piece to cherish those precious moments all your life.