How to Make Personalized Baby Blankets

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Personalized Baby Blankets

We continue our “how to make baby blankets” course with another great lesson about creating your baby great personalized baby blankets. No sewing is needed (young mommies are thrilled, probably) and they are very easy to make.

The tools that you will need for the making of the baby blanket:

30 x 40 inches piece of fabric (I used fleece for mine). The color is your choice.
Straight pin
Small paintbrush
Sharp scissors
Ruler
Masking tape
Fabric paint (again, your choice)
Alphabet letter stamp
Shape stamp (I used a flower shape stamp)

Let the “personalizing” begin!

A 30 inch long piece of masking tape in needed. Along one of the edges mark with a ruler 0,5 inches intervals.
About 2,5 inches from the 30 inches edge of the baby blanket, place the masking tape. Because it will be used as a mark to make the fringes, be sure that the tape is stretched.
Now you will have to cut the 0,5 inches fringes along the side of the blanket’s edge.
The same steps have to be followed for the other side of the personalized baby blanket.
The center of one fringed side has to be marked with a pin 2 inches from the top of the fringe.
Let’s say you want to write your baby’s name initials on the blanket. For this step, you have to apply paint to the baby’s letter stamp initial using a brush that has to be pressed carefully onto the blanket. Above the pin, you have to stamp the baby’s middle initial, and on the sides the first and last initials.
After this, stamp the figures that you chose (I for one went with flowers) on the sides of the monogram initials (you can also paint his name on the baby blanket, it’s all up to you, the process is the same). The colors of the figures are up to you as well.
I trimmed the flowers with small dots of paint (inside the flower and outside of it and that was it!

Of course, there are many many other ways how you can make personalized baby blankets. Stay tuned for new tips on making your own baby blankets. Until then, let’s see what mommies around the US have to say about the baby blankets that they’ve made.

Jessica, Carson City, Nevada: I like to make little Timothy’s baby blankets myself because they are easy to do and the cost is extremely low. The one’s that you buy in stores are way too expensive, and let’s not forget the economical climate that we are living in.

Danielle, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: I like to paint little red hearts on the baby blankets that I make. I love them and my baby does too.

Mary, Austin, Texas: Fringes. I’m crazy about fringes. Every personalized baby blanket that I make has to have them. And of course, the colors of the paint are usually green and red.

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