One Stray Pea

Honestly, I just don’t sleep very well anymore. I’m not particularly uncomfortable or anything, I just wake up at random..or to go potty and then I can’t get back to sleep. So after 30 minutes of looking at the ceiling this morning I decided to get up and make a receiving blanket. I had pinned and prepared my fabric yesterday, in a way of procrastinating making baby room curtains. I’m terrified to cut the hippo fabric!

So anyways, I made a receiving blanket out of some Happy Hippo fabric I bought at Jo-ann’s probably about the same time I found out I was pregnant. It’s been waiting for the perfect match fabric to come along. I backed it with a polka dot print flannel I bought online at the Fabric Shack. Finished dimensions are 34 x 40, which is a little smaller than I would have preferred, but the blanket turned out really well anyways. I chose to use only a 1/4 inch seam allowance and finished with a 1/8 inch top stitch. I actually like the blanket more than I thought I would, and it’s nice to feel I did something productive with my time.

Filed under: Crafts on June 12th, 2008