Taggie Blanket

Although Sadie has many interesting toys to choose from her favorite thing to play with, besides her giraffe, is the tag on her carseat. She chews it and chews it until it is just dripping. So I decided to make her a taggie blanket. I started this project while my mom was here and finished it a few days ago. I think it turned out really good and other than feeling a little bad for the lady at Joannes who had to cut all my scraps of ribbon it was easy. I used minky on the front and satin on the back. You need about a 1/2 yard of each and as many different ribbons as you like. I bought about 25 different kinds and bought between a 1/8 yard and a 1/4 yard depending on how much I liked the ribbon. Then just pin them around the outside of the minky in whatever order you like and sew them down. Next I cut out the letters and shapes that I wanted to use to decorated the front on fabric and iron on adhesive. Then after ironing them in place I stitched around the edges to make sure it won't unravel. Then I pinned the minky and satin right sides together and sewed them together leaving just enough room to turn it right side out. Hint: Use A LOT of pins. The mink stretches and moves a lot. Finally, I sewed around the outside edge of the blanket and gave it to Sadie.

She likes it but I think she still likes the carseat tag more :) O Well!

Her favorite tag