Baby blankets

Children's blankets are an integral part of the interior of a room where boys and girls of all ages live. It is beautiful, convenient, functional and very practical. The variety and features of this cozy accessory will be discussed in our article.

At the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century, soft, warm, fluffy bedspreads called plaids began to enjoy great popularity. A children's room is a personal space for a baby, where everything should be both practical and pleasant to the eye. To make the crib look neat, you can cover it with such a blanket after sleep.

A plaid appears in a child almost from the first days of life. This thing is multifunctional. When the child is discharged from the hospital, you can use one of the types of blankets: summer or winter, both normal and transformer. With a little effort and with the help of an almost imperceptible zipper, you have a nice, quilted envelope in your hands.

Plaid is a light, beautiful, delicate and heat-saving thing. This thing, if it is soft and thin, may not even be laid out of the stroller, as it can come in handy on the street at any time. If your baby is already sitting in the stroller, then you can roll up the blanket and put it under the pillow behind your back, and if there is a sharp change in the weather, you can reach and cover the baby.

There are a lot of blankets for babies. Their shape is generally either square or rectangular. Their corners are either sharp rectangular or rounded. They can be warm and light, thick long-haired (or long-haired), double-sided, quilted, lined, knitted, sewn from a single material or from small patches. Soft and fluffy bedspreads are intended not only for children, but also for adults, so you can often see a bed in the house covered with a beautiful one-and-a-half blanket.

There are already several uses for the blanket at home, it can be laid on the bed or covered with a child instead of a blanket, and when he grows up, starts to sit and walk, then you can lay this warm blanket on the floor in the nursery.

Basically, all children's blankets have an image of some animal or bird, or a cartoon character. And, of course, it will be easier for mom to teach the child to sleep in her crib, where either a bunny or a baby elephant is waiting for him every evening, and perhaps the "Wheelbarrow" has come to see if the baby has fallen asleep. After all, such a crib will seem like a fairyland to the baby.

For a premature baby, a crib with a warm blanket will become a cozy nest. Parents buy blankets for teenagers, as they are often located on the floor. They can make themselves a cape out of a light bedspread or build a whole hut out of a one and a half.

Patchwork-style products are considered very fashionable these days. It seems as if the grandmother sewed a bedspread for the baby from multi-colored squares.Openwork bedspreads or knitted with large weaving look beautiful, as well as from motifs connected from small squares connected by a crochet.

It is very important to choose the right size for your child. Parents pay little attention to the size of the product when buying it. First, they evaluate the appearance of the blanket, its brightness and beauty. Then they look at its quality and composition. Therefore, before acquiring such a thing, you need to think about why it will be needed. If in order to cover the baby in the crib, then you first need to measure the size of the mattress.

If the child is a newborn, then a blanket with a side size of about a meter will do. They can cover the baby and put it on the floor so that the baby plays on it, and he would not be cold. The size of such a blanket is 75x75 or 75x90 or 90x90 cm.For older children, you can take a blanket 100x120 or 100x140, 160x80 cm.For children of primary school age, you can purchase a blanket measuring 130x160 and older 180x100,150x200 140x205 cm.

According to the composition of the material, the products can be divided into three groups: natural, artificial and mixed.

Natural products include:

• cotton;
• wool;
• mohair.

Artificial products are made:

• from acrylic;
• microfiber;
• from velsoft;
• from fleece.

Mixed - these are fabrics in which we see natural materials with the addition of artificial fibers.

Products containing natural fibers are not stored on the shelves. Products containing cotton thread are delicate and lightweight and are great for both adults and children. Clothes made from cotton fiber are very good for the skin, absorb water well, but also do not take long to dry them. They have excellent breathability, but they can also protect from the wind.

In a blanket woven of cotton threads, it is pleasant to meet the baby on that joyful day when the mother is discharged from the hospital after giving birth, because such things always look rich. And, most importantly, such a thing will not harm the child or cause an allergic reaction.

Also, the light industry offers our attention blankets merino wool... In winter and autumn, this thing will wonderfully warm the child. Woolen products, as well as cotton, do not impede the penetration of air, they are hygroscopic. The disadvantages of such a product are that they can cause allergies in the child, if there is such a predisposition and it is not very pleasant when the wool touches the naked body. In this case, parents need to be very careful when using such a product.

A huge assortment of blankets is presented from artificial fibers: fleece, acrylic, velsoft.

Acrylic bedspreads soft, it is pleasant to touch them with your hands, they will not cause an allergy in the baby and, as they say, they are not demolished. Their price relative to products made from other materials is low. In winter, on the street while walking in a stroller or sleigh, such a thing is simply unmatched.

No less popular for toddlers fleece covers... Such products are very beautiful, soft, warm, but if they are used in very cold weather and in winter, they will still be cool in them.

Some fleece products have the drawbacks of electrifying, but since there are a wide variety of antistatic agents available, this can be prevented.

Many parents prefer to purchase blankets for their children, which consist mixed fiber, for example:

• cotton and acrylic;
• woolen and polyamide.

Also in stores are widely represented goods of this type, which include silk, bamboo, micromodal... Such blankets have rich colors, they are warm and breathable, and synthetic additives make the product durable and lightweight. Despite the low content of synthetics, such a blanket is suitable even for a newborn, such a thing always has a high quality rating and will not harm the baby.

Bedspreads are very common now microfiber... Microfiber is the most fashionable synthetic material and is a pleasure to touch. It does not cause allergies, it is light and gentle.

The product will also look very beautiful. from pompons, from Dolce yarn, from Alize soft and fluffy meringue.

Often on the market you can find knitted blankets... They are created from cotton, wool and acrylic yarns. These are soft, warm, comfortable things. These products have a beautiful appearance and hypoallergenic properties. Also suitable for newborns.

In addition, there are many different types of soft bedspreads:

• knitted;
• plush;
• from mink plush;
• from pompom yarn.

Manufacturers offer a huge palette of colors. For newborns, these are more soothing, pastel colors: blue, pink, light coffee, light green, white, beige and others. For discharge from the hospital, it is better to use plain, dim blankets, in order to avoid the manifestation of allergic reactions in the infant in the case of low-quality dyes.

Perhaps the light colors of the blanket are not very practical in everyday use, but on the other hand, you will be calm about the psychological and physical condition of your child. After a year of mom and dad, children buy bright blankets with colorful drawings on them, since the baby is interested in everything, and he looks at everything with pleasure. For girls, it is mainly red, hot pink, burgundy, yellow, orange, light green. For boys, it is green, gray, blue, brown. Closer to school age, it is already necessary to buy a new blanket for the child, here his preferences must be taken into account.

You need to approach the design of your baby's rug with all responsibility. It is imperative to take into account the preferences of the child, if he has already grown up and is able to express his opinion. Many children will be happy if they have a blanket with their favorite cartoon characters, such as:

• "Cars";
• Minions;
• Snow White;
• heroes of Madagascar;
• Barbie;
• Superman;
• Luntik;
• Barboskins;
• heroines of the cartoon "Frozen";
• Mickey Mouse and others.

You can buy a blanket poncho or a blanket cape. Such blankets are mainly produced with a hood in the form of the head of an animal (Mayan bee, lion, alien and others), as well as on the sides with paws. For children under one year old, it is better to choose products of calm light colors that will have a calming effect on them. Children who are a little older than a year will be interested in bright, eye-catching bedspreads, especially if they have any colorful pattern on them.

Parents often buy a baby blanket to cover their baby cot. Then they choose the color for the interior of the children's room itself, for the color of the walls or the color of the bedside rug.

High school students love more versatile blankets with bold stylistic designs, shaded patterns, and bird and animal prints. It is better for adolescent children to leave the initiative in their own hands, so that they choose a blanket of their choice in accordance with their desires.

Girls prefer that their favorite Barbie, or the sorceress Winx, the princess from the Disney cartoon, or Masha and the Bear, or maybe an owl with big kind eyes or Minnie Mouse with huge bows on her head and against the background of huge peas, was painted on their favorite blanket. Any girl would be glad to have a plaid with beautiful flowers or bows, with a border of tulips or a bedspread with bright red hearts and a cute bunny.

Boys also love cartoons and will not give up a blanket with cars from "Cars". A blanket is also suitable for boys, where, against the background of bright green grass, Mickey Mouse plays football with a huge ball or a blanket with the image of Luntik. Plaids are very popular, which are suitable for both a boy and a girl. These are blankets with a bunny or with bears, cats or dogs. Bedspreads containing abstract patterns look no less stylish.

Wrapping yourself up in such a blanket is a great pleasure for a child, as if a kitten hugged him with its fluffy paws. All children love the circus and a blanket with a picture of a funny clown throwing balls and rings up will bring only a good mood to the house for both the child and his parents. For teenagers, blankets of more serious colors are suitable, for example, brown, dark blue, even black, gray, milk. Of course, the king of flowers is white, but such a blanket should be used very carefully in everyday life.

If your child is fond of any kind of sport, then you can give him a blanket with a specific theme. For example, with the image of a snowboarder on a snowboard, a cyclist, a skater, a football player and other athletes. If the child loves nature, then you can buy a blanket with the image of a river and a forest, a hare sitting on the edge of either with an autumn theme - maple leaves or a dark blue blanket all covered in white snowflakes, or with a snowman with a huge carrot instead of a nose.

There is no direct answer to the question of which blanket is best for a child. Here you have to take into account many human factors and the financial component of the buyer. Do you want to purchase this attribute of a domestic manufacturer or Turkish, Italian or Chinese. Babies, of course, need to take things that contain more natural ingredients. It is necessary to carefully read the composition on the labels so that there are as few various synthetic additives and dyes as possible.

When choosing a blanket for a child, you need to understand in advance why and for what purposes. If it will be easy for them to cover the bed, then it is not necessary to take it in a huge size. If the baby sleeps under him at night, as under a blanket, then it is imperative to take into account the child's height so that it does not happen that the nose is covered and the legs are bare.

Children in a dream often turn over, sometimes they can cover themselves with their heads. Therefore, you need to choose a blanket that contains fibers from natural fabrics, such as cotton. Such a plaid, as they say, "will breathe." And even if the baby is covered in a dream with his head, then such a blanket will allow air to pass through.

In summer, a blanket made of cotton, bikes or fleece is good for walking. In winter, an acrylic blanket is indispensable. They can wrap a child sitting in a sled or in a stroller. Of course, it is not as pleasant to the body as fleece, but it will save you from the cold wind.

How to knit a blanket for a baby, see the next video.