Baby SEWING!

Lisa is having her baby tomorrow! I am so excited! I finally found some time yesterday to do some baby sewing! It felt so good too because I have not gotten the sewing machine out once since we moved. And of course these projects also represent fabric that I have gotten out of this apartment!
A few weeks ago, we took a trip to Mill End Textiles here in town and I got an awesome deal on broadcloth with my online 60% off coupon. I plan to back a lot of blankies with the broadcloth we found. The new baby needs a satin edged blankie and I was desperate to find some bunny flannel. These bunnies were a bit cartooney for my taste but they were the best we could find. I do like the colors though. I zig-zagged this thing to death because I want it to survive thousands of washings and last forever.
Little Erik is now sleeping in a toddler bed and Lisa said she could not find toddler bed blankies anywhere. I dug through my stash of little boy fabrics and found 2 blanket combinations. I bought these puppies in Mason City and the backing came from Mill End. This was the first time I'd ever used double fold bias tape to bind a blankie. I used this tutorial and it went fairly well. This blankie is only 45" wide. Usually when I make adult bed blankets, I keep the backing about 3 inches wider and longer than the top piece and just fold and turn under the raw edges and top stitch them to the front to finish the edges. In this case I didn't have any fabric to spare. I don't think the bias tape was any fussier than pinning on satin binding and turning corners. Even though the tape is stitched once on the wrong side, I still went around twice zig-zagging just to make sure it stayed put.

It is also worth mentioning that I got SUCH a good deal on fabric at Mill End. I bought almost 30 yards of fabric and yet ended up spending more on the binding for the blankets!