Nursery to Toddler

Bernat Baby Blanket Yarn Peachy 10.5 oz $10.99 This fast working yarn is perfect for creating homemade blankets, hats, booties, and more. The super soft texture is gentle on baby’s sensitive skin, and helps your little one stay cozy and comfortable. Available in a variety of attractive color options, you’re sure to find a great shade to go with baby’s wardrobe and nursery decor.

Bernat Baby Blanket Yarn PitterPatter 3.5 oz $4.29 This fast working yarn is perfect for creating homemade blankets, hats, booties, and more. The super soft texture is gentle on baby’s sensitive skin, and helps your little one stay cozy and comfortable. Available in a variety of attractive color options, you’re sure to find a great shade to go with baby’s wardrobe and nursery decor.

Bernat Baby Blanket Yarn Posies 3.5 oz $4.29 This fast working yarn is perfect for creating homemade blankets, hats, booties, and more. The super soft texture is gentle on baby’s sensitive skin, and helps your little one stay cozy and comfortable. Available in a variety of attractive color options, you’re sure to find a great shade to go with baby’s wardrobe and nursery decor.

Bernat Baby Blanket Yarn Posies 10.5 oz $10.99 This fast working yarn is perfect for creating homemade blankets, hats, booties, and more. The super soft texture is gentle on baby’s sensitive skin, and helps your little one stay cozy and comfortable. Available in a variety of attractive color options, you’re sure to find a great shade to go with baby’s wardrobe and nursery decor.

Bernat Baby Blanket Yarn White 3.5 oz $4.29 This fast working yarn is perfect for creating homemade blankets, hats, booties, and more. The super soft texture is gentle on baby’s sensitive skin, and helps your little one stay cozy and comfortable. Available in a variety of attractive color options, you’re sure to find a great shade to go with baby’s wardrobe and nursery decor.

Bernat Baby Blanket Yarn White 10.5 oz $10.99 This fast working yarn is perfect for creating homemade blankets, hats, booties, and more. The super soft texture is gentle on baby’s sensitive skin, and helps your little one stay cozy and comfortable. Available in a variety of attractive color options, you’re sure to find a great shade to go with baby’s wardrobe and nursery decor.

Bernat Baby Blanket Yarn Peachy 3.5 oz $4.29 This fast working yarn is perfect for creating homemade blankets, hats, booties, and more. The super soft texture is gentle on baby’s sensitive skin, and helps your little one stay cozy and comfortable. Available in a variety of attractive color options, you’re sure to find a great shade to go with baby’s wardrobe and nursery decor.

Bernat Baby Blanket Yarn PitterPatter 10.5 oz $10.99 This fast working yarn is perfect for creating homemade blankets, hats, booties, and more. The super soft texture is gentle on baby’s sensitive skin, and helps your little one stay cozy and comfortable. Available in a variety of attractive color options, you’re sure to find a great shade to go with baby’s wardrobe and nursery decor.

Red Heart Baby Steps Soft Yarn White $3.49 This soft baby yarn will soon become your favorite craft companion. With a palette of fresh, no-dye-lot baby solids and coordinating baby prints, you’ll be able to find the perfect yarn for your baby’s blanket, booties, or sweater.

Red Heart Baby Steps Soft Yarn Aqua $3.49 This soft baby yarn will soon become your favorite craft companion. With a palette of fresh, no-dye-lot baby solids and coordinating baby prints, you’ll be able to find the perfect yarn for your baby’s blanket, booties, or sweater.

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The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Knitting $17.96 This step-by-step, hand-holding guide to knitting is EASY to watch and makes learning fast and simple. Although this DVD is packed with everything a beginner needs to know, the chapters are bite-sized. Beautiful and clear demonstrations can get you started knitting scarf in only 30 MINUTES._____ There is a companion WEBSITE for the DVD where you can download lots of FREE beginner patterns! Scarv…

Beyond the Square Crochet Motifs: 144 circles, hexagons, triangles, squares, and other unexpected shapes $11.39 Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. 100% Money Back Guarantee….

Stitch ‘N Bitch: The Knitter’s Handbook $4.69 Knitting is hot with 4 million newcomers in the last few years. These are primarily young creative connected chicks with sticks who are coming together in living rooms knitting cafes and chic yarn stores. In this book Debbie Stoller covers every aspect of knitting and the knitting together lifestyle, the how-to the when-to the what-to and the why-to. At the heart of the book are 40 stylish pattern…

60 Quick Baby Knits: Blankets, Booties, Sweaters & More in Cascade 220 Superwash (Sixth & Spring) $10.19 STERLING PUBLISHING-Sixth & Springs Books: 60 Quick Baby Knits. What is more fun than knitting for (and dressing up!) babies and tots? Knitting sixty fabulous projects! Ever design in this book is knit with Cascade 220 Superwash; which features all of the remarkable traits Cascade 220 is known for-superior quality; affordability; and a fabulous range of colors-and it’s washable! Knitters of all sk…

Blue Sky Alpacas Yarn and Eyelet Baby Blanket Pattern Product Review Video

Looking For The Perfect Baby Gift? Buy A Blanket

One of the most popular gifts to bring new parents is a baby blanket. And they come in so many styles and materials that you have a great number of options to choose from. You’ll find specialized crib baby blankets – both big and little, you’ll see automobile seat baby blankets, carrying blankets, and many others. One reason that they make such nice gifts is that they are so easily personalized. What mom wouldn’t love to receive a baby blanket embroidered with the name of her baby? Any parents will treasure the gift so much that they will keep the blanket for years and, even decades, long past when their child has grown to adulthood. And possibly pass it on to them for their children.

Buying a blanket as a gift might be nice. But if you think that you might be a bit “crafty”, you might try your hand at knitting your own baby blanket. If you’re a beginner, a blanket is the perfect non-complicated starting project for you. Blanket patterns are easy to find and download from the Internet. Or you may find that your parents or friends have blanket patterns that they’ve never used. One really nice thing about making your own baby blanket is that you can customize it exactly the way you want. If you only want to use organic cotton and organic wool, you can do so. If you want a not-standard size baby blanket, you can make it to your exact specification.

If you knit your own blanket, the yarn materials you will probably use are some combination of acrylic, cotton, and wool. If you are just learning to knit and decide to knit your baby blanket yourself, you can take comfort in realizing that you don’t have to knit it all at once. An alternative is to knit the individual blanket squares and then sew them all together later. However, if you do feel up to the challenge, feel free to knit the entire blanket all at once. Most parents love receiving blankets as a gift. A home made blanket simply makes such a gift more personal in nature and will really endear you to the child’s parents.

Baby blankets come in a variety of interesting designs and patterns. A bright interesting pattern can stimulate the senses of a child keeping his mind engaged.

Finding patterns is not difficult. A simple Internet search will bring up thousands of baby patterns – some free and some for sale, and with all levels of difficulty. Many of these sites will also offer sewing and crochet courses to help you along.

Many readers of the Peanuts comic strip find amusing just how much the character Linus is attached to his baby blanket. But a child’s attachment to his or her blanket is a real life occurrence. It is an extremely important part in your baby’s limited world. Psychologists have documented many instances of a child becoming attached to a favorite blanket. Sometimes he becomes so attached to it that he’ll become anxious if he enters a new environment without it. Baby blankets actually do provide a sense of security to many children.

About the Author

Jill Viland writes articles on children, the home, and home related topics. For her latest article on personalized baby blanket please visit her web page.