How to make a receiver blanket.

1. When you go shopping, make sure to get 1.25 meters of flannel fabric from the bolt.  Or use some    fabric from your stash.  The flannel fabrics,  are from The Sewing Cafe.

2. Trim the selvages, on both sides of the fabric. They normally have the name of the fabric line, manufacturer and the colours used in the line, printed along one side.

Removing the selvages,   prevents the fabric from distorting the edge, once the blanket is made.

 Fold the fabric in half, place on a cutting board, to cut the sides straight.

 Align the ruler with the folded edge, this helps to cut the sides, straight.

3. Also trim the remaining two sides straight.

4. Now you have a rectangle to work with.

5. Next you want to trim the square corners, into round corners.

6. Just use a side plate from your kitchen, turn it upside down, align it with the sides of the fabric.   Trim the excess fabric, with a rotary cutter.  Do this for all four corners.   

7. Zigzag or serge the edge of the blanket.

8. Turn over the serged or zigzag edge and stitch it down with a straight stitch, on your sewing   machine.

9. In a short time, you have a quick gift for a new baby.  With so much cute flannel out there, you   can whip up a few receiver blankets in no time.

10.  If you wish to make them extra special, you could add a trim, or as they do in South Africa, add  a crochet edge to add more detail to the receiver blankets.