Cozy Quick Blankie

I adore the organic cotton fleece from Michael Miller that I used to make this blanket.  It's cozier than you can imagine and so natural in both look and feel.  You'll love putting it next to your child's skin.   I chose a cheery, lemon yellow shot cotton for the back with tan rick rack for the edge to create a warm, gender neutral palette that everyone will love. --Page

Comments

[karen]

Will there be more fleece soon? I would really like to make this blanket. It is so soft and sweet.

[purl bee]

Dear Karen,
The fleece is temporarily sold out, but more will be available, hopefully soon. In the meantime, you might also try the organic sherpa from Michael Miller, it is also very, very soft, plush and cozy. You can find it here:
http://purlsoho.com/purl/products/fabricdetail/3724

[karen]

Thank you. I am not sure what sherpa is but I ordered it. I look forward to making a keepsake blankie for my grandson.

[alexis]

Is there another soft non-stretch fabric you could recommend instead of the fleece? Flannel perhaps? My ancient machine has no walking foot and does poorly with stretch fabrics. What a beautiful project.

[purl bee]

Dear Alexis, Flannel would be lovely. Normally we have some very beautiful organic flannel from Michael Miller, but we appear to be sold out right now. If you'd like to be notified when we get it in again go to this link and send our online shop an email or give us a call, we'll let you know as soon as it arrives:

http://www.purlsoho.com/purl/contact

[Linda]

I just made this blanket today and it is adorable! Thank you! I used white cotton flannel (my #1 choice when I first came across this project), blue gingham cotton for the other side, and brown rick rack. I just love it! Thank you for such a simple and old fashioned project.

I have a tip for anyone interested which made it much easier for me to apply the rick rack evenly. Using my sewing machine, I first sewed the rick rack to the right side of the gingham fabric all along the edges, making sure that my stitching was not quite in the center of the rick rack (I just caught all the "points"). I then laid the gingham on top of the flannel, right sides together, and using as a guide the stitching lines from sewing the rick rack, I then stitched the two fabrics together making sure my stitching line was just inside the other stitching line from the rick rack. This prevented any slippage of the rick rack while pinning and stitching it up.

Again, thank you for your creative and very pretty projects. I love your website and blog!

Linda

[Megan]

Hi, I was wondering if a cotton velour might be be suitable. I live in Australia and the store which I was going to source organic fleece from suggested that the cotton velour or a microfleece might be suitable also. I'd appreciate any advice you an offer. Thanks!

[purl bee]

Hi Megan,
I think a cotton velour would work but might not have the drape that the organic fleece has. Cotton flannel would work very well as an alternative or any other soft, plush fabric with drape.

[Beth]

Where is the lovely tree print from that's in the background? It's so cute.

[Krystal Wight Armstrong]

Yes, like Beth, I'm interested in your pretty tree print. Is this a craft you made, if so I'd love to know more about it and the method. I searched on your blog, for a past post about it, but there were too many results for 'tree' and I wasn't sure how to best narrow it down, so 'thought I'd just ask :)
Thank you!
www.Andrew-and-Krystal.blogspot.com