Bring a little Thanksgiving to preemies in the NICU or nursery with these fun autumn themed blankets. Each of these free patterns for Thanksgiving blankets can easily be altered to preemie size for a tiny baby.
Thanksgiving blankets include crochet blankets, quilt blankets, afghan blankets, and applique blankets. Links to free patterns are provided along with suggestions for modifications to make Thanksgiving preemie blankets.
Bring Thanksgiving to the NICU - Autumn Harvest Raggedy Quilt
Use the free quilt pattern to create this lovely autumn blanket with fall fabrics and applique leaves for your preemie. You can easily downsize this larger autumn quilt pattern from Craft and Fabric Links website into a preemie quilt by reducing the number of squares across and down. Or alternately, you could reduce the size of the square and leaf appliques. This Thanksgiving quilt could be hand sewn or machine quilted in soft autumn colors.
Thanksgiving Turkey Applique Quilt would make a cute preemie blanket.
This remarkable Thanksgiving turkey quilt is actually an applique wall hanging! With just a little ingenuity, you could use the free pattern templates to stitch together the autumn patterned design and the turkey, making it sturdy enough to be used as a preemie blanket. The finished wall hanging is 20.5″ wide x 23.5″ tall, a good size for a baby blanket. The turkey itself is 11.5″ x 13.5″, and could even be appliqued onto a smaller blanket if you wished. The background only uses one fat quarter.
Turkey Blanket is soft and warm for a preemie.
This Thanksgiving crochet blanket has colorful turkeys, with warm autumn colors. A lovely project for Thanksgiving, you can alter the free pattern to crochet a smaller preemie blanket. Just shorten the width and length, but keep the turkey pattern the same. The skill level for this Thanksgiving blanket is said by Coats and Clark to be “intermediate.”
Pumpkin Patch Squares (Crochet Blanket)
Crochet a preemie Thanksgiving blanket with Pumpkin Crochet Squares
Combine these cheerful autumn pumpkin squares in fall colors to crochet a cute Thanksgiving preemie blanket. Each square is 8 x 8 inches, so it wouldn’t take many to make a blanket. Or even better, use a smaller crochet needle to make smaller, tighter squares. Use the free pattern to crochet each square, and then join to make any size preemie blanket you desire. This Kaleidesigns pattern would be a nice project for multiple preemie blankets, as long as the squares are tight enough for tiny preemie fingers and toes.
Falling Leaves Blanket (Crochet)
Crochet Falling Leaves Blanket for a lovely Thanksgiving preemie blanket.
Last but not least is a gorgeous Thanksgiving crochet blanket. Sure to perk up the NICU or nursery, you will want to crochet this autumn afghan blanket with bright fall colors to set off the cheerful falling leaves. The brown stripes set off each row. According to the free pattern from Fave Crafts, you crochet each of the leaves separately, in autumn colors, and then sew them on to the blanket. Keep the leaves the size given in the free pattern, but shorten the blanket in length and width to make a warm Thanksgiving preemie blanket.
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