Butterfly taggie

I feel the same about fabric as I do about scrapbook paper.  I love the colors and prints.  Mixing it all up, moving things around, creating a pattern and finally going for it.  There's just something about it that is so satisfying! 

Good friends of ours had their baby daughter baptised recently and I wanted to make her something.  I rummaged through my fabric, looking for fun, bright, colorful pieces of cloth to make a taggie blanket.  Something small, soft and colorful.  Adelyn's room is decorated with butterflies, so I decided on that shape instead of the more traditional square.  I found a really great tutorial on how to make a taggie blanket at Chica and Jo; detailed instructions and good pictures.  Any beginner can make this. 

I played with the fabric and decided on this pattern, cause I liked these prints so much and wanted to use all of them.  I sewed the strips together and then cut around the template I made out of craft paper.  The fabric back of this taggie is flannel in a cream color.  I used a pillowcase.

Then I chose the ribbon.  All colors and sizes.  I decided that the solid colors worked better with the printed fabric, but I also liked the polka dot ribbon.  So, I used them inside out, figuring Adelyn might like the peek-a-boo effect.  I used alot of tags.  I hope she likes them.

It was a fun gift to make.  I'll be making more of these in the future.