Homemade Lap Blanket
As presents for children, I love these
blankets. Either on it’s own or with a
book, as in this instance, I’m quite proud to present them. I imagine that the recipient will get as
much enjoyment out of it as my girls get from the one here at home. And my girls use their blanket A LOT. And yes, it’s time for Baby Mac to have one
of her own.
I am tentatively making my way into the
world of quilting. And these sweet
little lap blankets are my stepping stones into that crafting nirvana.
These blankets teach me about sandwiching
techniques and binding. I’ve also
enjoyed how my lettering has been coming along and I welcome some more practice
with names that have curves in them.
For this blanket, I was determined to
improve my machine binding. In
traditional quilting, binding the sides consists of sewing the binding on one
side of the quilt and hand stitching the other side.
Personally, I find hand stitching quite
meditative and I do enjoy it, but it does require not having little girls that
like to jump on your lap in any instant.
Plus hand stitching is still a time-consuming task for me, so it pays
for me to practice another technique, a quicker technique of binding.
The lettering was hand drawn and then appliquéd using a small zig zag
stitch. As I chose a lettering fabric
that was too close in colour to the blanket fabric, I tried to outline the
letters to define them a bit better.
The flower was also a free form drawing, but this time a raw edge appliqué. The
question is, is the flower a design feature or something to correct the
uncentered lettering? Hahaha.
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