Make Colorful Baby Blankets
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Colorful Baby Blankets
It’s time for me to show you another way you can make your very own personalized baby blankets without sewing. This method is also very easy and requires no big effort. This is how it goes.
The things that you will need to make this baby blanket are:
- Pieces of fleece in different colors
- A tape measure
- And scissors
These are the steps you have to follow:
For the blanket that I made I used fleece in only two colors, with a size of two yards for each. You can use more and you will see in this post why. First, cut the pieces of fleece into eight inch squares. The number of 8 inch pieces depend on the size that you’ll want the blanket to have. For a perfect 8 inch length, use a piece of cardboard of the same size. Place it on the fleece and cut around the cardboard, but make sure your result is a square.
Now it’s time to cut out every corner of the 8 inch squares. The length of the cuts should be of 2 inches, both on the bottom left and right. This should be done every corner from all the 8 inch squares. When all your pieces will look like the one in this picture, it is time to cut the fringes.
The fringes that I usually do are, like you can see in the picture below, 2 inches length and 1/2 inches wide. You will get about eight fringes for each side.
Now that you have all of your pieces for the baby blanket with the fringes cut, you have to tie them together. Put two pieces close to one another and start to tie the fringes. Because it is a pattern, remember to have the two pieces in different colors! This is the moment when you can get really creative. Your baby blankets will look even better if your pieces of fleece will be in more than two colors. This is how I tie the fringes together: the fringe from the top right of one of the squares is going to be tied with a fringe from the top left side of the other square. The knot that I used was a double one, because it is more safe when I wash the blanket. You have to continue with this pattern for the whole blanket, with the rest of the remaining squares.
Once the blanket has the size that you want, knot together the fringes that are on the exterior sides of the blanket. But you can also leave the fringes as they are; it is all up to you.
As you can see, these are very easy to make baby blankets, that give you the opportunity to choose the aspect of the blanket, it’s colors and also,it requires no sewing. As you can see, my blanket turned out really well. How about yours?
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