Minky Baby Blanket

This is a quick, easy baby blanket.
The fabric makes it in this case, because there's not much skill involved as far as quilts go.

It's just 2 pieces of fabric sewn together, then bound so I didn't use any batting between the layers.

I found minky and flannel backed satin on sale, so one side is super soft, then the other is silky. 

This is for our baby girl that is due in a few weeks.  We're naming her Ellaria, and so the "e" is her first initial.

I used fusible webbing to iron it the satin side of the blanket.  I top-stitched the edges in turquoise.

I just bought one yard of the minky, but it was 60" wide, so I got 1.5 yards of the satin.  So this blankie is a little bigger, 1 yard x 1.5 yards.

Already our 2 year old son has been dragging it around, and took his shirt off to wrap the satin around his back.  So it was a hit with him, even though I kept telling him it was for baby Ellie and he was just borrowing it.