How to make reversible flannel receiving blankets

How to make reversible flannel receiving blankets – I’m going to do this because EVERYONE I know is having babies!!

To make one of these little blankets, you will need:

• 1 yard of flannel for the front
• 1 yard of co-ordinating flannel for the back
• thread (preferably in a fun, contrasting color)
• rotary cutter or scissors
• sewing machine
• pins
• small round bowl or plate

Next, cut your fabrics into squares.  Since your flannel is 44″ wide and 36″ (1 yard) long, ideally you would end up with 36 x 36″ cuts…but oftentimes you’ll find they cut your yardage very crooked at the cut counter.  And if you pre-washed, you’ll have some shrinkage.  So once I squared up my fabrics, each of my blankets were more like 32 x 32″–some a little smaller, some a little bigger.