Receiving Blanket

You can make really neat receiving blankets for just a couple dollars. I found this fabric on clearance at Hobby Lobby (my FAVORITE store), although the clearance price wasn't as cheap as I wanted it, but I just LOVED the fabric, so I bought a couple of yards! We have FIVE babies due at our church and I may need to give this one away! :o) I woke this morning KNOWING what I want to do with the rest of this fabric. If there were only more hours in the day!

After washing and drying your fabric, cut it to the desired size.
Press a 1/4" (or there about) seam back twice as to hide your raw edge,
do this all the way around.
Then use whichever stitch you'd like, just try to keep it straight.
Press again to make sure it is good and flat.

For this blanket I used some nice fun fur type yarn.
It was regular $4.00 and I got it for 99 cents! Can't beat that! :o)
Any fun type yarn/string will work.
I used a small steel crochet hook, inserted it,
made a single crochet, chain 3,
made another single crochet about an inch over.
So the yarn is 'looped'
but you can not tell because it's fun fur! :o)Now wouldn't this be a neat receiving blanket for a family that had a farm? :o)
So keep your eye on the fabric on the clearance racks and
you can whip up a bunch of receiving blankets in no time for just a few dollars!
You can see a couple of other types I made earlier this year.
HERE

Diaper Wreath

My daughter, Olivia (be sure to check out her blog), made this to enter in the county fair in a couple weeks. It will go in the category, Wreath, Non-Christmas. I thought I'd post a simple tutorial about it. :o)

Items Needed:
A Wreath
(you can get these at the dollar store
or watch for after season clearance and buy a few)
Most anything you'd put in a gift basket
use your imagination!!!
Ribbon
Diapers
(disposables are used here, you could use cloth also)

Use ribbon to tie diapers on wreath.
Wouldn't it look nice with cloth diapers tied on with raffia?

Be sure to cover all of the wreath.

Tie on all of your items.

There you have it!
Olivia used a receiving blanket that I made for the 'bow'.

An option:
Cloth diapers, using raffia, crochet booties, a knitted blanket...

Another option:
Instead of using diapers, use baby t-shirts...

Another option:
Tie on scrap booking items...

Another option:
First Aid items

Be creative...