Our baby is coming in just a few more weeks! I can't believe it! And since it is so cold here in the winters, I decided to make her an extra warm and snuggly fleece blanket. It was such a fun project, I can hardly wait to snuggle her up in it!
First, I chose two coordinating pieces of fleece. One yard of each was plenty. I actually have enough fabric left over to make her a cute jacket or something for next spring.
Then I just measured and cut the two pieces to my desired size, plus about 4 inches for fringing the edges.
After pinning the two pieces together with wrong sides together, I machine stitched around the edges, about 4 inches in from the outer edge. I used this cute decorative stitch.
Then I cute about 3/4 inch fringes all around the outside edge. I was going to knot the fringes, but decided that I liked it better without knots...and I also didn't want anything hard or stiff on this blanket for the baby...I wanted everything to be soft. 
The last thing I did was to tie in random hearts and flowers with satin ribbon
and I also tied each kitty's tail just to be sure that the blanket would wash well and not separate or shift. 
And here is the finished product! Like I said, I can hardly wait to snuggle her up in it!
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