It’s kind of funny but whenever you go shopping for baby blankets for a friend or family member’s baby you really aren’t thinking of the baby at all! Just think back to the last time you went shopping for a blanket for a baby shower or a gift for a newborn you probably thought to yourself how much mommy would love those unique baby blankets you just spotted at the Pottery Barn Kids display. In fact, you probably never realized it but now that I’m telling you, you KNOW it’s the truth. So now that we know WHO we’re shopping for, let’s figure out what kind of baby blankets we need to look at.
If your friend is already setting up a memory book for the baby then probably something with a personal touch would be great. Do you know how to do any crafts? Perhaps you could find patterns for knitted baby blankets or crochet baby blankets. If you don’t want to spend an arm and a leg on a pattern book there are online sites that have free patterns for knit and crochet. There are also sewing patterns if you are really into it and want to make custom baby blankets from start to finish.
I, personally, like to take out the embroidery machine and play with it. I buy a few fleece baby blankets and “personalize” them. Sometimes I monogram them and sometimes I embroider the baby’s name and date of birth if the baby is already born, that is. I have most of the Disney line of embroidery designs for my Brother SE-270D. Some of the designs came built in so I don’t even need the card reader and memory card in order to make Disney embroidered baby blankets. Actually, I have had a bunch of people call me to see if I would make personalized baby blankets for them. I’ve been working on Christmas throws at the moment and that’s ok. I’m picking up extra money for the holidays. If you really get into it you can buy baby blankets wholesale and make some major money selling them. Like I said, around the holidays people actually come to you, it’s not like you have to go scouting them out, but you can if you want.
Once you realize what the baby’s mom is into you have a place to start. Baby blankets are meant to keep the baby warm and comfy for sure, but the gift is really for mom. That baby isn’t going to know if it’s green or orange or purple or polka dot or whatever. At least not until that baby is all grown and ready to have a baby of its own. Then the memory box will come out and the process will start all over again. By then baby blankets might not even be necessary! Maybe scientists will figure out a way to keep body temperature at 98.6 all the time no matter what the room or atmospheric temperature is. But that’s something for late night sci fi reading. For now, I guess you’ll just have to figure out which baby blankets mommy will like.
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