the most awesomest (it's a word) blanket ever.

I feel in mad deep love with this blanket by made. (click HERE)

and my husband  said that a guy at work was having a baby (not him...his wife....boys can't have babies silly...)

and I thought..perfect excuse to make 'said' blanket.

went and bought some fabric....

guess where I got it...just guess?!

and you should have saw me at joanns....I just COULDN'T decide. you would think I was making the most important desicion of my life..

sidenote...I can never make desisions.

I don't eat at new restraunts cause I can't ever decide what to get.

and you should see me hem and haw over paint colors.

but I digress....

I laid out my three back layers. (blue was bottom--green was top)

then I took the front side and added a g (the baby name is grayson...(just like small eyes)

cut out a g

cut out a circle...like a professional does it. (a non etched bowl)

pin on

sew it up

then sew on the circle...

then I took my top layer and added my bottom layers (remember..if you want the REAL tutorial head over to made. cause this is just a light dusting...)

sidenote: I did not glue mine down like she did...just pinned. worked just fine...but her blanket was bigger than mine (I just did a yard)

and then...

I started to sew.

and sew

and sew

then changed a diaper..

then sewed some more

and took an oreo break

and then sewed

then snagged myself on a pin...

buzz lightyear to the rescue...literally.

oh...then I sewed some more (notice the pictures are getting darker...cause it's getting later and later and later..

sonofa .....

took a trip to walmart.

(don't you love the massacred barbie...)

then  I sewed some more.

ahhhh....done.

it was so pretty...all those straight lines...I was tempted to keep it just like that....but I had pretty fabric sandwiched in betwwen...soooo

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then I started cutting....

and cutting

oh...and then I cut somemore.

fetching A this blanket sucks!

(I watched the last airbender with my kids while i did it....and did not finish..so it took longer than an hour and a half to cut...)

crap. finally. my hands are all gnarled and I have a charlie horse in my cankle.

took my fancy see through ruler and my mat (thanks mom)

and took my pink cutter (thanks hayley)

and trimmed the edges.

crap...more sewing.

had to sew on the binding...that I have no picture for..but it was soft and fuzzy and horrible to sew cause it was sooooo thick...

but i got it done..

and then comes the best part..

soak it with water and toss it in the dryer.

want to pee my pants in excitement......

AND I have to tell you..when I pulled it out of the dryer...I forgot about the 42 hours (exaggeration) that I spent making this stupid blanket.

I love it.

I adore it

I don't want to give it away.

grayson is darn lucky that I stuck a g on it...cause that was the only thing that got it out of my death grip.

I should have bought him some pampers and kept myself the blanket!!!!

I officially named it...

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one more shot of the back

omigosh I love it.

now...I feel like this should count as 4 blog posts because it took me probably 32 times longer to make than any other thing on here!!!!

(plese note...that I took these pictures outside yesterday. my daughter jumped on the tramp...the snow was *almost melted....

woke up to this today.

with a two hour delay for school.

idaho blows.