bless my birth

Except we’ll probably use both for a boy or a girl! We have chosen not to have an ultrasound at all this pregnancy, unless I am advised by my midwife to do so, so I wanted to make a special blanket to welcome either a boy or a girl when the birth-day comes! I just can hardly wait to see who it is in there!! Handling these blankets makes the day feel closer and more real, I imagine a teeny little body warmed by them, the work of my hands and heart, and my heart almosts bursts in joyful anticipation!! I can feel that little person right now, swimming around within me, and oh! I just really can hardly wait!

I love these fabrics from Anna Maria Horner (I also love her blog!) I ordered the Folksy Flannels Good Night fabric stack and divided it into these two quilts. I love them so much!! It was a very fresh inspiration I felt as I viewed the collection first here. My blankets are simply a flannel quilt top, the seams topstitched one way, with an organic cotton fleece from NearSea Naturals for the backing. I used cotton yarn (from Michael’s) tied at the squares’ corners to attach the top to the backing, folded the backing over the top around the edges and stitched that down with the same stitch that the seams are topstitched with.

Here are some photos I took of the process of making the boy one.

P.S. My mom had boy and girl twins when I was six and a half and my younger brother Mike was 4, he was struggling with the twins getting all the attention, so he wouldn’t refer to them by their names. They were “the boy one” and “the girl one.” As in, “Is that the boy one or the girl one?”