Poco Mountain Girl

Zia and I sewed this up a month or so ago. It’s a cozy  little batiked baby blanket in hues any good hippie would die for. (Tie-dye for, at least.) Being in the mountains, we’re surrounded by hippies, so I want my baby to have a fighting chance. And nothing gives you a leg up like dragging a tie-dyed, batiked blanket in to story time at the local library.

I bought the fabric not knowing what I would use it for, but I liked how wild it looked. It reminds me of those beautiful creatures in the book of Revelation, all covered with eyes.

When I decided to make a blanket out of it, I pawed through my scrap box and found an old, but never used, piece of fabric to back it–a soft brushed cotton in a batik of blues studded with tiny lavender stars. I sewed them together along with an old scrap of polar fleece for batting.

After turning it and sewing up the opening, I decided to try some hand stitching to keep the layers in place. Zia picked out the thread colors, and over the next three or four days I stitched around each batiked “eye”.

I loved doing the hand stitching. It was simple, imperfect, and in a way, meditative. I’m just hoping the embroidery floss will hold up. I’ve never used it for sewing, so I’m hoping it won’t shrink or run when I wash it.

But then, I think this blanket was just enough fun to take that risk.

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