My little Gruffalo and now Hungry Caterpillar :)

sethsgran

I have thought of it but no as it is such a labour of love for my littlies, 6 so far and will be 7 in a few months. My children all want lots of children so bring on the grandbabies.

sethsgran

Forgot to mention the blanket is fleece with fleece applique so nice and warm for him. Apparently as he drifted off into his nap he commented Thankyou gwandma for making my blanket

betterlife

wow you are soooo talented xx

sethsgran

Thank you all for nice words. I do enjoy this kind of crafting.

jcr16

omg hun, that is amazing. i so want a nan like you. ( i love my nan don't get me wrong). did you draw a plan first for the blanket or was it one of those crafts that as you made it , the ideas just sort of flowed?

sethsgran

Ideas just flowed. I made all of my grandchildren a blanket, different ones.

jcr16

wow is all i can say. i think i might make something similar as xmas pressies for my little ones. my dd, loves unicorns and fairys, my ds 1 loves trucks and monster trucks and dinsours and my ds2 is fireman sam mad. i'm sure i could come up with some lovely ideas as a snuggle blanket for them.

do they take long for you to make them ?

sethsgran

About 2 week, working on an evening. I bought a good quality fleece for blanket then overtime I seemed to acquire bits of fleece and occasionally I bought a cheaper one from Ikea to cut up to use. Think I did 14 blankets during the year for last christmas.

Ig you do a google image search for "colouring pages dinosaur" for example you will get lots of blck white pictures to choose, print off the ones you like and then use them as you pattern pieces to cut them out. I have quite alot of fleece "bits" jcr so pm me your address and I can put some bits in the post. For one grandson I used midnight blue for main then I stitched planets, rocket etc on. I even used some glow in the dark embroidery thread for the moon stitching, it works.

jcr16

i like doing crafting of an evening when all the little ones are in bed. summer time were out alot so i don't get much chance , but winter time, i find it amazing how much i can get done. my children go to bed at 7, so i have plenty of time. i just finished a patchwork quilt so i have time for another project.

LJM

sethsgran again another fantastic make, you really have to come and move in with me lol i will have a look and see if i may be able to give the gruffalo costume a go myself it would make a lovely xmas pressie for her and she would adore it (wont be as good as yours though) and your caterpillar fleece is amazing you are so talented xx