How To Make A Baby Blanket

Baby blankets are easy to make at home. You can save money or create a wonderful and personal gift for a baby shower or to welcome your own new baby home.

How To Sew A Baby Blanket

It is very simple to make a blanket from fleece or flannel fabric - just cut and hem! A good size for a baby is one yard of fabric with a width of 40 - 50 inches.

Make it special and personal by embroidering a design or the baby's name. If you do not have embroidery skills, buy a cute embroidered patch to iron or sew onto the blanket.

For a warmer blanket, use a layer of cotton batting between two layers of flannel or one flannel and one printed cotton fabric.

How To Crochet A Baby Blanket

Assuming that you know how to do a basic crochet stitch you can make a simple blanket starting with a chain the width of the blanket and then forming rows with double crochet stitch. This could be all one color or you could change the yarn every few rows to form stripes, or use multi colored yarn. When you have the full size blanket, work one row all around the edges for a neat trim, making 3 chain at the corners.

Alternatively, crochet different colored squares of 3-5 rows each and attach them together. Use two or more pastel colors that contrast well for a checkerboard effect.

For a more unusual blanket you will need to follow a pattern. Check before you start that you understand all the stitches that are used in the pattern. It can be very frustrating to find after much work that you do not know how to do the stitch that holds the key to the whole pattern.

A hand knitted baby blanket can be an alternative to crochet. Use the plain knitting stitch (not knit and purl) or for a more solid blanket, moss stitch (one knit one purl, doing a plain stitch where there was a purl in the previous row and vice versa). Again you can either knit the whole blanket at once in one color or stripes, or you can knit squares and then sew them together later.

Using the method of joining individual squares, you can even make the blanket grow along with the baby by adding more squares as the child gets bigger.

It is important to choose your yarn carefully. Buy something that is suitable for babies. For a baby with very sensitive skin you may want to use 100% cotton instead of wool or synthetics which can make a baby itchy.

Made with love, beautiful baby blankets can be something that parents and baby will treasure all their lives.

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