I love making cute little baby blankets for my friends and family. It's a fun little hobby that doesn't take too much time (usually!) I was invited to a baby shower and this time I decided I wanted to make a cute mitered corner blanket. My friend had given me a printout several years ago with instructions on how to do it. I also found some great tutorials online. I was able to easily complete everything except I couldn't figure out the instructions on how to do the actual corners!
Here is a photo of how this poor blanket sat for about a week - sitting there with floppy corners and all!
I decided to try what I thought should work because I couldn't figure out the real directions. The tutorials kept saying something about sewing/cutting at a 90 degree angle. However, the corners are a 45 degree angle. It wasn't logically making sense. So this is what I ended up doing.
I folded the blanket into a triangle leaving the floppy corners out.
I then took my ruler and marked along that edge where the corner will be for both corners. Then I folded the blanket the other way and marked the remaining corners.
I then sewed along that line to make my beautiful corners. I turned the blanket to make sure I was satisfied with the results. There were a few corners that I didn't love so I repeated the above steps, updated my markings and sewed along the new line until it was how I wanted it.
You'll be able to see if you need to correct the stitching because the corner won't lay flat.
When each corner was perfect (hehe) I cut the excess fabric off of each corner.
Here are a couple of photos of the completed project!
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I know this may not be the "correct" way to create these cute mitered corners, but it worked for me, and I hope this can help others who may be struggling with the same issue :)
