swaddling blankets!!

I think they are just a 30 x 36 inch square of flannel, although you might want to use 36 x 36 inches so it is perfectly square.

I thought they were just receiving blankets???........no pattern for those......just flannel squares about 30" x 30".........

Yup, it's a blanket you swaddle with......with which you swaddle? A receiving blanket, baby is placed kitty corner across the blanket, little arms to it's side or over chest, legs together, wrap snuggly and cuddle........works good :)

Val

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For a reason I've never understood these are called bunny rugs in Australia! Still, whatever name they go by, they do the trick and keep bubs very snug in the first few weeks. We have since found heaps of uses for our blankets, more than 6 years down the track.

Viviane

Nicest ones I had were 36" x'36" 100% cotton flannelette. Selvedges turned once, two cut edges turned over twice (same width as selvedge) and blanket stitched all around. Lasted for years, three babies, and jillions of launderings. Now I would use the serger on the edges for rapid finishing. Jean M.

Just reminiscing about receiving blankets. When my eldest grandson was born in 1985, my DD only had

3 receiving blankets, size 27x30(strange size), which she thought would be enough. The day after she brought the baby home, Sunday morning, she called me crying(she was in Chesapeake, VA and I was in El Paso, TX), "Mom, we don't know what to do. These receiving blankets are so little and everytime DH washes them, they shrink more. We bought 2 more, but they're too small, too. Where can we buy larger ones?". I went to Cloth World as soon as the store opened, bought 4 yards of their best flannelette, washed & dried it, cut the 4 pieces into squares 36x36, hemmed them and sent them overnight express. Both parents were thrilled. I sent 4 more within a few days. Later, I began using decorative stitches when hemming, especially with the girls. As a result, all my 6 DGG had Grandma-made receiving blankets, I always made sure they had at least 6 or more depending on the season. I made all their crib sheets, too. Emily

Bye baby bunting, Daddy's gone a hunting. Gone to get a rabbit skin, To wrap baby bunting in.

Don't know where that came from, but we sang it ages ago as a lullaby. I bet it's related to your Australian term...

-Charlotte

Viviane wrote:

We have made ours 45ish inches square. Buy 1.25 yards of flannel. Wash hot and dry in a hot dryer. Square off and hem. My godmother hemmed all mine by hand. My mother still gets misty-eyed about that. I wore my first one 27 years ago today and now they're packed away for my first-born, none the worse for wear.

-Charlotte

steve l> Hi there to All and thanks in advance for any advice or suggestions. >

My mother sang a version of that to me in the 1930s. Maybe only a tiny bit different.

Jean M.

Perhaps the old nursery rhyme:

Cry baby bunting Daddy's gone a-hunting Gone to fetch a rabbit skin To wrap the baby bunting in

.....could be a logical explanation.

Just a thought, Val