Minky Baby Blanket

I’ve always wanted to do a project with Minky but it’s a material that I found a bit intimidating due to always hearing how slippery it is and how hard it can be to work with. I’m here to tell you, it’s not that bad! Maybe because this is an easy project but I didn’t have much trouble. It took me just an hour or two from start to finish. Keep your vacuum handy though because this stuff makes a mess when you’re cutting it.

What You’ll Need:

2 yards of minky (one yard for each side of blanket)

Satin Blanket Binding (I used two packs. I thought I’d need three but two was plenty!)

Rotary Cutter and Mat

Sewing Goodies
A LOT of sewing pins

After washing and drying my fabrics, I cut them just enough so they were the exact same size. Then I sewed the ends of the blanket binding together to make one long strip of binding and ruffled away. I use this shirring foot to do my ruffling. Just set your stitch length to be a bit longer and up your thread tension to high.

Now that the blanket’s done, I wished I’d done a tighter, fuller ruffle but it still came out cute. Set the ruffled binding aside and lay your minky pieces together on the floor. Use a plate to round the corners as below.

Then with right sides of minky fabrics together, sandwich ruffle in between (all raw edges of your materials are on the outer edge). Pin A LOT. I hate pinning but trust me, this helps when you go to sew due to the minky and satin being on the slippery side. At one rounded corner just let a few inches of the binding hang out at each end and cut excess. I wasn’t sure how this would turn out but it worked! It’s how a store-bought blanket we have appeared to have finished of the binding.

Sew all the way around with a 3/8″ to 1/2″ seam leaving about 8 inches open on one side for turning.

The end of the binding will look something like this after sewing. Trim excess again.

Turn your blanket right side out. Pin the area you left open for turning so it looks like the rest of the blanket. Start sewing here to close up opening and topstitch around the entire blanket.

The place we left the binding edges go off the corner of the blanket now looks something like this:

There may be a better way to do this for a ruffled edge but this worked out pretty well actually. Using the full yard of each fabric makes for a larger, rectangular shaped baby blanket but I wanted it to grow with her through the toddler years. It’s so soft and cuddly!