How To Make A Baby Blanket With Batting

You can buy prepackaged batting insular material in twin queen and king sizes at your local fabric or craft store.

How to make a baby blanket with batting. Make sure batting and flannel are a few inches bigger than decorative fabric. You can make a bigger one of course just cut the pieces to the size you desire. Pin the raw edges of your binding to the flannel side of your quilt. Step 1 buy 2 yards 1 8 m of flannel in different but complementary colors or patterns.

You can use two flannels two cottons poly satin minkee whatever you like. Wash the flannel before sewing the blanket step 2 choose a size. Also cut a rectangle of batting the same size. Turn the blanket right side out by pushing the fabric through the gap in your stitching.

Leave a inch seam and miter the edges. Start by cutting your fabric. Use safety pins to baste the quilt hold layers in place temporarily. When i make baby blankets i tend to make them about the size of a yard of fabric 36 inches by 45 inches.

You can use a fabric piece for the binding which is suitable in color combinations and fabric pattern to the main fabric. Cut a rectangle of each to 32 x 42 which is a standard crib size blanket. Cut out a square fabric piece for the blanket of 45 inch and a fabric strip which is 5 inches wide and length equalling the perimeter of your fabric piece plus some 4 inches or so as an overlap. I ve made a few blankets now with gauze and haven t noticed any consequences of not prewashing.

Get the fabric supplies you need at onlinefabricstore. For example if it is a newborn make a blanket that is 34 inches 0 9 m square and if the baby is older make a 44 inch 1 1 m square blanket step 3. You can also buy a custom size directly off of the bolt in store. If you go the custom route you will want to make sure that your batting is rectangularly shaped twin sized batting for example is 72x90 inches so that it covers your entire body lengthwise.

You simply need to decide the design or pattern of your baby quilt followed by the type of material to make the quilt the fabric for top and back of the quilt and also the type of batting. Place fabric and batting on top of a piece of woven flannel. It s convenient to buy a yard for the front and a yard for the back but i also think it s a good finished size for a baby. A good way to create an attractive combination is to choose 1 pattern and 1 color for the opposing sides.

To make a square blanket you can choose a size that fits the size of the baby. Stitch around the edge of your blanket using a straight or decorative stitch. Batting is padding which fills your blanket up. Place the square of fabric the quilt top on top of a layer of quilt batting.

Iron the sides of the blanket to get a nice crisp edge. You can mix it up as you see fit.