Learn to make your own receiving blankets for a new baby. They are SO easy and the cost is minimal. If you have a sewing machine, some thread and a yard of flannel, then you can make these DIY ...

You’ve undoubtedly seen a picture of a newborn wrapped in a soft white blanket with pink and blue stripes along the edge. That blanket is an iconic design and often the very first blanket that many ...

Decide how large you would like your blanket to be. We used the black tablecloth as the guide shape. Lay out your two pieces of recycled materials on top of one another, aligning to the top left ...

Receiving blankets sound formal, like something a Victorian-era mother might see her baby wrapped in for the first time before being whisked away by wet nurses and nannies. In reality, they’re the ...