Matching Game v2: Pink and Girly

Had another sweet little 1 year old's birthday party to attend this past weekend. After the fun and cuteness of the flannel matching game for my little friend Jack I was really excited to do a girl version. I already had hot pink flannel on hand as well as some adorable cupcake print flannel I've been just waiting for a chance to use. I made a trip to JoAnne's a few weeks ago in preparation and picked up a few more cute girly prints... although I have to say I had sort of a hard time finding cute girly pink flannel prints... But I found a few I liked. I did also decide to use my pinking shears on the edges instead of fraying them. I think it turned out pretty cute! You can see this post for the boy version and run down on how I made it.

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Flannel Matching Game

A sweet little boy I know is turning one and tonight was his party. I had to spend a little time thinking about what to make him, handmade boy gifts are tough for me to come up with for some reason. While browsing pinterest & blogs I've seen a couple of really cute fabric match "memory" games. With that idea in mind I headed to my fabric stash to see what I had. I love buying cute flannel prints when Joann has a good sale and I recently added some great boy prints to my stash, which gave me a nice selection.

Once I pulled out all the patterns, I choose 6 of them. First I cut out the elephant and used that as the guideline size for all the others. (Mine ended up being about 4" x 2.5) I cut two matching pieces of each fabric.

I cut some batting just a little smaller than my flannel squares. I wanted the pieces to not be to floppy. I also cut 12 pieces of black flannel in the 4" by 2.5".

Then I sandwiched them all together and because I had batting that was fusible, I ironed each piece to help hold them in place while I sewed.

I opted to just sew a small zig zag all the way around, because I like the look of a rough/frayed edge. Then I trimmed each piece after they were sewn.

Think they turned out pretty cute. And best yet- they are washable! So when little Jack drools on them or plays with them using sticky fingers they can just get thrown in the wash. I see several more of these in my near future as a few other friends have babies turning one. :)

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