Dr Seuss Pram Blankets

It seems like everyone I know has just had a baby, is just about to have a baby, or just found out they are having a baby!

As such with so many baby presents on the horizon I thought I better spend some of my holiday sewing.

A few months ago I ordered some Dr Seuss fabric online from America.  It is possible to get it here but it is much more expensive and we don't seem to have half the choice.

I decided to make a Pram Blanket as I personally think that is important to give practical presents!

The size of the blanket was partly dictated by how much Dr Seuss fabric width I had to play with and partly the average size of a pram. I brought some standard Polar Fleece fabric for the back for warmth and because it comes in such great colours!

The blanket size I wanted to end up with was approx 45cm wide and 60cm long so allowing a few center-meters for seems I cut out my fabric and laid the two finished sides together. I put a few pins in it to make sure it didn't move during sewing, then sewed only three sides (make them the 2 long sides and one short - it makes life easier).  

You will note in this photo that my Yellow Polar Fleece is much larger than my Dr Seuss fabric; this is just because I had more of it, you can trim it all down before or after your sew it together but I generally don't worry about it too much.       

Once the sides are placed together I simply sewed around the outside edge of the smallest piece of fabric. Then cut off each of the corners diagonally so that when turned inside out, the corners sit better. Then it should look like this: 

Because I wanted the quilted look I added some welting (at least I think it's called welting?).

Then turn the whole thing inside out and makes sure to push out the corners.   

Then I pinned around the edges, it takes awhile but it is better to do it properly as you get a better finished edge.

The edge that I didn't sew in the first step I needed to tuck both edges into each other and put in lots of pins to hold it. 

Once I had done all that pinning I sewed around all the edges.

And it should look like this around the edges.

I then sewed two lines up the middle - thus...

And since I was on a role I made a few more.