by Serena Smith

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Here are a few baby blanket designs I have created! It is so fun to copy, paste & edit embroidery designs and see what fun results I can come up with!!



These are made out of poly/cotton broadcloth. Broadcloth makes an inexpensive blanket, but I would not recommend it for a dense embroidery design. When you stitch a high density design, it tends to cause ripples or puckers in the fabric because it is so tightly woven. A 100% cotton works better; flannel is even better!!

The Kuddly Koala is stitched in one thread - a variegated spool in shades of green.
On the pink blanket, I roll hemmed the edge in a variegated wooly nylon thread.
The Good Morning design has multiple kinds of threads in it - white wooly nylon for clouds, a 30 wt. polyester gray for the road, yellow Monet for the sun & lettering and 40 wt. rayon threads for the rest.



All these are out of blue broadcloth. I added lettering in my Bernina embroidery software to the designs. For the Crusin Along & My Favorite Things, I add multiple mini designs and scattered them around the lettering.



Flannel...flannel...flannel...the perfect fabric for stitching embroidery!! I love to stitch on flannel because the fabric absorbs the embroidery so well and prevents the puckers & ripples that can occur from stitching.

Sing a Song! with Mr. Bear and his musical guitar.
Play with Me is a tiger playing with some bumbling bees.
The cute little cowboy bear is "trouble", but adorable stitched on this blanket! This has been the all-time favorite whenever I am showing these blankets as samples! I think it is cute too!! :)