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DIY Patchwork Baby Blanket – 2 Hour Sewing Project

December 7, 2018 by Laura 15 Comments

Last Updated on April 12, 2021

This bundle of fat quarters arrived this month in my subscription from Stacked Fabric Company. I instantly went all squealy and excited when I opened the package, because they’re so cute! I decided to use these 4 fat quarters to make a simple DIY patchwork baby blanket for my nephew for Christmas. His bedroom is kind of an animal meets lumberjack theme, so I figure these tribal prints will fit right in! I’ve seen him bury his face into fuzzy blankets, so I think the soft minky fabric I used on the back will be a hit. πŸ™‚

Sew a super cozy patchwork baby blanket in just 2 hours. Use 4 fat quarters and some minky fabric for this simple baby quilt tutorial. Learn how to sew this easy patchwork blanket with this free tutorial. This adorable baby quilt would be a great baby shower gift.

 

Start to finish, this DIY baby blanket took me about 2 hours. It’s nice to be able to finish a project in one sitting! That’s practically unheard of among crafters who typically have about 84 unfinished projects lying around at any one time!

A word on my fabric subscription. It’s like crack for crafters, I’m totally addicted! Every month I get 4 coordinating fat quarter quilting cottons. It’s a mystery bundle so I never know what’s coming, which is literally half the fun. It’s the absolute best mail! Stacked Fabric Company is Canadian owned and operated by the sweetest lady. (Who is not compensating me for singing her praises by the way, I just reallllly love this company!)

Ok, carrying on.

There really isn’t much to this DIY patchwork baby blanket, I kept it super simple. So the instructions are also pretty basic. If you have a fair knowledge of sewing, you should be fine!

Gather Materials

Gather up your materials for this DIY baby blanket

 

You will need:
4 fat quarters
1 yard of minky fabric
1-1.5 yards of lightweight woven fusible interfacing.
Matching thread
A few episodes of Friends loaded on your iPad. πŸ™‚

Double check the width of the interfacing before you purchase. Mine was only 75cm, so I needed to get 1.25 meters in length.

If you want to see what else I’ve made with my fabric from Stacked, check out these posts:
Quilted Laptop Bag Tutorial
DIY Toothbrush Travel Wrap

Or check out this simple scrap busting project: DIY Hexie Hand Towels

Cutting

Cut each fat quarter into 4 squares, 9″x9″. You’ll have a little strip of leftover fabric you can add to your overflowing scrap bin!

Cut the fat quarters into 9" squares

Sewing Up a DIY Patchwork Baby Blanket

Now you’ll sew 4 strips of 4 squares, using a 1/4″ seam allowance.

Arrange the squares so that none of the patterns will end up matching up with each other when the blanket is assembled.

Press all your seams open.

Sew the strips together making sure to line up all your seams.

Press all your seams open.

Carefully iron the fusible interfacing to the patchwork baby blanket top. I used a press cloth for this, you probably should too.

(My press cloth is just a piece of cotton fabric with finished edges.)

Trim away any excess interfacing.

Use lightweight fusible interfacing on your patchwork baby blanket top

Let me tell you, while I’m totally in love with these fabrics, they were crazy difficult to photograph! πŸ˜›

Put your patchwork top and minky fabric right sides together. Pin the heck out of them. And then pin some more.

Trim away any excess minky.

Note about minky fabric. I’ve never used it before and it turns out there’s a bit of a learning curve! So maybe purchase a little extra that you can practice with. It was shifty stuff and didn’t feed through the machine very well.

Sew around the blanket, leaving a gap of a few inches on one side.

Trim the corners and flip the blanket right side out. Pin the gap closed

Carefully topstitch along the edge of the blanket, about 1/8 of a inch in if you can. Close up the gap by topstitching.

At this point you could add some quilting to the blanket. All I did was stitch in the ditch of the 2 centre seams to tack the minky in place.

That’s it!

Super simple, right?! But oh so cute and cozy!

DIY Patchwork baby blanket using 4 fat quarters. A simple tutorial for a great baby shower gift!

 

Cute patchwork baby blanket tutorial. You only need about 2 hours to complete this simple DIY sewing project!


An adorable and super cozy patchwork baby blanket tutorial. This simple sewing project only requires 4 fat quarters and 2 hours to complete!


A simple DIY baby blanket tutorial. This sewing project only takes about 2 hours to complete! This patchwork baby blanket would be a great baby shower gift.

How to sew a baby blanket. This simple DIY patchwork baby blanket can be completed in 2 hours!

Once my nephew gets his hands on it, I’ll try to snap a couple of pictures. He is seriously the cutest kid you’ll ever see. (Except for my boys of course. lol)

You might also like this DIY Crochet Baby Blanket Tutorial.

What have you been crafting lately? Tell me in the comments, I love knowing what my fellow makers are making!

Filed Under: Crafts & DIYs, Mom Life, Sewing & Embroidery Tagged With: 2 Hour Blanket, crafts & diys, DIY Baby Blankey, How to sew a baby blanket, Patchwork Baby Blanket

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  1. El Sa says

    May 27, 2022 at 7:00 pm

    I guess i do not understand. How would you end up with 9×9 squares if you cut the fat quarters (18×21) into four pieces? I would think that you would end up with 2 pieces from each fat quarter with a strip left. (18 divided by 4 equals 4.5 inches) (21 divided by 4 equals 5.25) Can you explain please? Thanks

    Reply
    • Laura says

      May 27, 2022 at 7:38 pm

      Hi! So you will end up with 4, 9×9 pieces and a strip left over. Think of it like folding a piece of paper in half and then in half again. You end up with 4 sections even though you only divided the length and width in half each. I hope that makes sense! Don’t divide the 18″ by 4, only divide it by 2. If you divided the length and width each by 4, you’d end up with 16 squares. πŸ™‚

      Reply
  2. Grandma dee says

    February 25, 2022 at 6:22 pm

    Love this idea. Will it work the same with flannel? I buy remnant and use them for burp clothes.

    Reply
    • Laura says

      February 27, 2022 at 2:11 pm

      Hi, I don’t see why flannel wouldn’t work!

      Reply
  3. Maxine says

    November 1, 2020 at 1:15 pm

    HOW can I print out this pattern? I’ve scrolled through and don’t see a link. My sister had printed it out but I can tell I don’t have all the pages.
    Thanks for your help!

    Reply
    • Laura says

      November 7, 2020 at 10:35 am

      There’s no pattern to print, just measurements to follow. Happy sewing!

      Reply
  4. Joani says

    January 16, 2019 at 10:44 pm

    My interfacing is not wide enough. Do I piece it?

    Reply
    • Laura says

      January 17, 2019 at 12:36 pm

      That’s probably what I would do. Overlap it by about 1/2″ before you iron it down. πŸ™‚

      Reply
      • Kathy says

        March 4, 2019 at 12:50 am

        Why do you interface the fabric?

        Reply
        • Liz P. says

          October 14, 2020 at 4:04 pm

          I’m guessing it stabilizes the Minky fabric?

          Reply

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