Embroidered baby blankets.
I just love this visual. And with a little focus, this would not be difficult to duplicate at all. These blankets are just hand embroidered with a little embellishment stitched into the middle.
The shapes are simply cut out of contrasting fabric and stitched right into place. As for all the rest, they are just hand stitched on. The words, the embellishments and decorations and everything.
Once again, this is the type of situation where those fabric transfer pens come in extremely handy. Hit up the aisle in your local craft or (better yet) your local fabric store and you will find a huge selection of transfer methods for getting text and shapes from your printer to your fabric. Then you just have to sit down with needle in hand and basically, you are coloring in the lines with thread. That is all embroidery really amounts to in the long run. Using thread instead of crayons. Isn’t that wonderful?
The edges were done with a basic blanket stitch and for a little visual interest, the thread was changed as it went, so the color is different all around. I thought that was a fantastic way to add a lot of visual differences to the blanket and give the baby something fun on which to focus.
If you have baby gifts in the future that you know you need to be making plans for now, start your embroidery engines now. The wonderful thing about new babies is that you have a pretty generally safe bet; it will either be a boy or a girl. Aside from those two, your other choices are pretty much limited to - well - a boy or a girl (noticing a pattern?). So it makes embroidery options simple to plan ahead and get started.
So, let’s get started. Take a good look and get started this weekend.
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