Here’s the tutorial for how to make a crinkle square mini blanket with taggies like the one below for a baby.  It’s super easy, quick, and doesn’t cost much.  If you don’t have ribbon on hand, that might be your biggest expense. 

Supplies

• thread
• 2 squares of flannel (I used 9×9 inches)
• ribbons cut to about 4 inches long and folded in half (I used 4 big pieces, 4 medium pieces, and 4 skinny pieces)
• crinkly sheet/package, the same size as your flannel (I used a wrapper from a sample diaper I got in the mail).  Some other options: wipes package, microwave popcorn wrappers, chips bag, clear gift wrap . . . Just make sure that you cut your flannel pieces to whatever size your crinkle sheet ends up being
  

Directions

1. Put one piece of flannel right side up and pin ribbons along the edges with the cut sides off of the flannel.  between the two pieces of material (wrong sides together).
2. Put the second flannel sheet on top of the ribbons right side down.
3. Put the crinkle sheet on top of the flannel and pin all layers together.
4. Sew along all the edges– except, make sure to leave a big enough section not sewn so that you can turn the blanket right side out.  Take the pins out.
5. After sewing, turn the blanket right side out.
6. Then, sew all the way around the square, and you’re done!

   

So I don’t want to make this long and drawn out, and I really don’t even want to write about it tonight because I wanna get in bed (but can’t cause I’m waiting on Jonathan to call to tell me he got to Seattle safely) . . . but I don’t want to write it tomorrow because I wanna be done with the bad feelings.  Here are only some of the rough things that happened:

• Didn’t hear my alarm or didn’t set it this morning, so I was running late for my sonogram appt.  Went to get Abi at 9:10, and she was still asleep, so I had to wake her up, and she was fussy.
• Had to call around to get a tow truck to take our car to a mechanic.  Spent $50.  Mechanic called and said, “Nothing’s wrong with your car; it started right up.”  WHAT!  $50 wasted and our car’s not fixed!  I start crying cause our car has been breaking down off and on for the last 6 months.  Jonathan goes into rescue mode (God bless him) and calls another mechanic and tries to troubleshoot over the phone.
• Minutes later, we have to get Abi awake from her nap to take Jonathan to the airport.  This is the 4th night I’ll be apart from him in almost 6 years of marriage and Abigail’s 1st night .  He’ll be gone until late Wednesday night.
• It took me about 40 minutes to get to my Dad’s office after I took Jonathan to the airport, due to our city’s construction.  It should’ve only taken 10.  Then, we had to drive to pick up our “working” car from the mechanic, drop it off at Dad’s house, go back to Dad’s work to get his truck, go to my house to pack up Abigail’s stuff, take her back to my parents’ house, drive back to my house to be there by 7:00 when I had plans with Tiffany.  I spent 3 hours in the car.  Came home to a house w/ hardly any food (we were supposed to go grocery shopping on Saturday, but we were busy all weekend working on the car and trying to find Jonathan some khakis for his business trip).  Didn’t have time to grab something.  Ate canned soup.  All this on top of feeling crappy in pregnancy is zero fun.

Anyway, that’s a short recap of the rough day.  Tomorrow, hopefully, I’ll have time to do a positive post about Baby and maybe get in a tutorial for Tipster Tuesday.  We’ll see.