Baby Tag Blankie - Tutorial

It seems like EVERYONE is drinking (or drank) 'the water' and is pregnant or just had a baby. So if you haven't noticed most of my crafts/tutorials are baby related and that is the main reason. That and they're fun and easy to make!

I followed this AWESOME tutorial over at Design, Dining + Diapers. Go check her out here. I altered mine just a little with the size since I wanted a little bit bigger one.

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What You'll Need:

*Depending on the size of blanket you want to make. The tutorial I followed did it with a 12"x12" square. Mine came out to 17"x25"

1 yd of fabric for top (minky) - On sale at Joann's for 50% off, came out to $6/yd + 15% off coupon

1 yd of fabric for bottom (flannel) - On sale at Joann's for 60%, off came out to $2.67/yd + 15% off coupon

1 Spool of ribbon - $1.97 at WalMart

Matching thread - $2.16 at WalMart

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Lay out your fabric and cut the size of blanket you want. Like I said above, the tutorial I followed did a 12x12 square which seemed perfect, but I just had extra fabric so I made mine a little bigger.

Cut your ribbon into 5" strips

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Lay out your minky fabric with right side up. Fold the ribbon in half with wrong sides together and pin evenly around the blanket with the ribbon loop inward. I pinned mine every 3".

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Now put your flannel on top with the right side facing down (so right sides are together) and one by one take the pin from the ribbon and re-pin through all three layers.

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Sew all the way around leaving about a 4" opening and flip the blanket right side out..

(You'll probably have to take a ribbon out that you pinned to do this.. don't worry, you'll put it back later)

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Now fold in and pin the fabric of that hole with the ribbon you took out back in place and sew it closed. I also sewed around the blanket again for a more finished look..