Sleeping Baby Blanket
Enterprising people have even turned baby blankets into works of art. However, in crafting, as in any kind of artistry, many are called but few are chosen. There are mistakes that can be made in creating baby blankets. Most people think it’s fairly easy to stitch together something that little. If you take for instance, a basic blanket, say one that’s 36 inches square, it seems fairly easy to snip out the material and run up a few stitches.
However, there are many choices that the would-be blanket crafter has to make. One is that they might decide to go with the non-traditional type of baby blanket and pick a material is some wild colors. This is not necessarily a good choice to make. Baby blankets are traditionally and typically in light and pastel colors for a good reason. Babies need some stimulation, but not constant stimulation. There are crib mobiles that can be hung to entertain the baby, and even these are often in muted colors, and with a flash of bright colors from time to time. With this, it’s a different thing than something that is wrapped around the baby, that the baby sleeps on and looks at all the time. It could be jarring for the baby if you have something that’s in brilliant reds, and oranges, and bright blues and greens.
Another classic mistake that I’ve seen take place in home made baby blankets is a person buys a proper soft fabric, and then hems it with hard hems. They fold the material up too tightly and stitch through it, and this leaves a hard ridge all around the edge. And while to the adult, the hard ridge doesn’t look like much, to a tiny baby, it can be quite difficult to lie on. Another mistake, well-intended though it was, involved attaching a very lacy edging to a baby’s blanket, and the edging that caused a problem was a beautiful filet style. However, baby’s little fingers and little toes kept getting hooked in the crocheted edging, and this caused some panic for the baby. If you want to be creative in creating baby blankets, stick to traditional colors, add maybe a tiny bit of accents here and there, stay away from lacy finger-catching trim, and if you are into making baby blankets at home, be absolutely positive that all pins and needles have been removed.