Jameson

These blankets are special because they are for an old college friend who is having her first child at age 38. We are all very excited for her to be a mother for the first time! She loves monkeys & has monkeys waiting in the baby crib. So I went with that theme.

The first is just a small, crib sized fleece. This one the kids wanted to help with so it was as simple as can be. Two pieces sewed in a rectangle with a 2 1/2 inch selvage. (I didn't want to tie it because it would be way to bulky for the size.) I set 2 kids with 2 pairs of scissors up on a cutting board with instruction on the spacing of the cuts & they were done in less than 5 minutes. A few days after it was finished, I was given his name so I just ripped out one seam to do the initials & then re-sewed it.

The second blanket was flannel on both sides--brown & then the same monkey print but the print size was scaled down a bit. I put brown ribbon on 2 of the corners of the monkey side & then put his name on the top of the brown side with it centered & at an arcing angle. The fun thing about this blanket is the thread. It was a 2 color thread that went back & forth from yellow to orange since the monkey print had both those colors. (Looking at his name embroidered makes me think of a giraffe, not a monkey though....oh well.) For the outside edge I chose a stitch that reminded me of the branches on the trees on the green print. It really adds a lot of character on the brown side of the blanket.