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We are a proud supporter of Life’s Little Treasures Foundation, a charity that helps families of premature and sick babies in Australia.

In March 2022, we heard that Life’s Little Treasures was looking for someone to knit special blankets for premature babies. We were deeply touched by their mission and knew right away that we wanted to help! We got to work, filled with ideas and inspiration, and thoughtfully crafted some beautiful designs that they loved very much!

Now we are so proud to be working with Life’s Little Treasures, donating 1200 specialised premmie baby blankets per year to include in their ‘Precious Prem Packs’. These packs are then given to families who have a premature or sick baby in hospital, to provide practical support, information and friendship, as well as comfort them and let them know they are not alone.

Life’s Little Treasures are also looking for other crafty people who can knit teddy bears and blankets for them. If you have a passion for knitting and want to make a difference in the lives of these families, you can get involved here lifeslittletreasures.org.au/get-involved/

We hope each family loves their little blankets and they bring some form of comfort in such a difficult time. We also hope that our story inspires others to join us in supporting this wonderful charity.

With Lots of Love,
Thread The Word

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Trending Blanket Designs, Colours & Fonts: Get inspired with our most popular blanket designs, colours, and font styles! From soothing pastels to bold hues, discover the perfect combination for your next personalised blanket.

Hottest Icons: See which icons are adding that extra charm to our blankets this month!

Dive into all the favourites from August 2024!

✨ TOP TRENDING BLANKET DESIGNS ✨

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* Data compiled is based on orders we received in August 2024.

✨ TOP 20 UNIQUE BABY NAMES! ✨

✨ TOP 20 POPULAR SYMBOLS ~Fun & Cute Icons To Use! ✨

Have you tried our icon blankets? Choose from a range of adorable symbols!

✨ TOP POPULAR FONTS ✨

✨ TOP 10 FUN COLOUR PICKS ✨

✨ OUR TOP 10 COLOUR COMBOS ✨

Creating a personalised baby blanket with Thread the Word is a fun and rewarding experience. Not only do you get to design something beautiful, but you also create a keepsake that will be treasured for years to come. Start designing your custom baby blanket today and give a gift that is truly one-of-a-kind!

Follow these simple steps to make your perfect personalised baby blanket truly one of a kind.

1. Visit the Thread the Word Website

Head over to Thread the Word and navigate to the personalised baby blankets section.

2. Choose Your Blanket Size

Select the size that best suits your needs. Options include:

• Newborn: Ideal for 0-3 months. Great for that newborn photoshoot and birth keepsake.
• Bassinet: Ideal for 0-3 years. Best for newborns! One of the most popular sizes. Great for the bassinet, pram, car. Take it wherever you go!
• Cot: Our most versatile size! This blanket grows with your child. It’s great for the pram, bassinet, cot, bed, car, sitting on the couch watching tv. It will always be loved!
• Teen/Adult: For those who want a larger keepsake. Great for teens and adults as a lap blanket.
• Single Bed: Great for all kids in their big bed that will be loved for a lifetime. It will never get old!
• Throw: Makes an amazing feature of any room. The perfect gift for grown-ups, especially grandparents, offering warmth and comfort on chilly winter evenings while snuggled up on the couch.

3. Select Your Design

At Thread the Word, you have a wide variety of designs to choose from. With over 25 designs available, you can find the perfect match for your style and preferences. Whether you prefer classic patterns, fun symbols, or something unique, there’s something for everyone.

Popular designs include:

Animal Collection

Choose from adorable animal patterns. These designs are perfect for adding a playful and fun touch to your baby’s blanket.

Icon/Symbol Blankets

Our icon selection is constantly expanding, allowing you to add a personal touch with various symbols. These designs let you incorporate meaningful symbols or fun icons into your blanket. Options include:

Classic Patterns

For a timeless look, consider our classic patterns. These patterns offer a sophisticated and elegant touch to your personalised blanket.

Featured Baby Names

Highlight your baby’s name with our featured name designs. These designs make the name the focal point of the blanket, creating a truly personalised keepsake.

Unique Designs & Patterns

For something truly special, explore our unique designs below. Tell a story about loving care and unique personality with our Birth Details blanket with arrival dates, or upload your favourite photo to be printed on the custom photo blanket. This option is perfect for creating a one-of-a-kind keepsake.

* We offer Blankets for Dad or Sports Fans: Show your support with personalised sport blankets, available in various designs to celebrate your favourite teams.

Extras:

• Milestone Cards: Celebrate precious moments with our baby milestone cards, printed on sustainably sourced paper and eco-friendly ink.
• Gift-ready Packaging: Each custom-knit blanket is lovingly wrapped in tissue paper, placed in a stylish canvas bag, and secured in a waterproof pouch to ensure it arrives in perfect condition.
• Gift Box: Add a touch of elegance with our new gorgeous Gift Box. Your custom blanket, nestled inside a sleek white box and tied with a chic black ribbon, holds a surprise that’s bound to warm hearts.

With so many options to choose from, you’re sure to find the perfect design to create a beautiful and personalised baby blanket. Start designing your custom blanket today and give a gift that will be cherished for years to come!

4. Customise Your Blanket

Personalise your blanket by choosing from a variety of colours, patterns, and designs. You can add the baby’s name, birth date, or a special message. With over 25 designs and 33 colours to choose from, the possibilities are endless.

After you pick a design, you can personalise your blanket in several ways to make it truly unique:

–  Customise Text on the Blanket

Add the baby’s name, birth date, or a special message. A helpful tip: adding spaces between letters can reduce the size of the text, making it fit better on the blanket.

–  Select Font, Base, and Text Colours

Choose from 19 beautiful fonts and 33 gorgeous colours to match your style. Thread the Word offers an awesome list of pre-made colour picks to make your selection easier. Plus, there’s a handy SWAP COLOURS button that lets you see different colour combinations instantly.

–  Approve This Design

Once you’re happy with your customisation, review your design to ensure everything looks perfect. This step allows you to make any final adjustments before placing your order.

Additional Customisation Options

• Symbols and Icons: Add cute symbols or icons to enhance your design. Options include stars, hearts, animals, and more!
• Preview Your Design: Use the design preview feature to see how your blanket will look before finalising your order. This ensures you get exactly what you envision.

5. Review and Place Your Order

After customising your blanket, simply add it to your cart and proceed to checkout. Thread the Word offers fast and free shipping, so your custom blanket will be on its way in no time. Once you’ve designed your blanket, review your choices to ensure everything is perfect. Then, simply add it to your cart and proceed to checkout. Thread the Word offers fast and free shipping, so your custom blanket will be on its way in no time.

Why Choose Thread the Word?

With over 2000 glowing reviews, our customers’ satisfaction speaks volumes about the quality of our blankets. 

• Premium Materials: All blankets are made from 100% cotton, ensuring they are soft, cuddly, and safe for your baby’s sensitive skin.
• Handcrafted with Love: Each blanket is meticulously crafted to provide the highest quality and comfort.
• Unique and Personalised: Create a blanket that is as unique as your little one with a wide range of customisation options.

You know that incredible, can’t-get-enough-cuddles feeling when you welcome a newborn into the world?

That fierce wave of love that washes over you and makes you want to wrap up your precious little one in the warmest, most meaningful embrace possible?

Well, we’ve got just the custom-made solution for wrapping your little one in heartfelt affection: personalised baby blankets from Thread The Word!

Our bespoke beauties aren’t just any ol’ swaddles, either.

Nope, we’re talking one-of-a-kind keepsakes infused with individuality from the very first stitch. Lovingly knitted right here in Australia, each cot blanket is stitched with your little sweetpea’s name and tailored with unique details that make it unmistakably theirs. 

In this ultimate guide, we’ll uncover all the ways to make bub’s first blanket a huggable work of art. 

Personalised Baby Blanket Checklist: Finding the Ideal Cuddle Companion

Size

Okay, the first order of business—picking out the snuggliest size to take your little one from the itty-bitty stage all the way up to big kid years. 

Newborn and Bassinet personalised baby blankets are designed to keep those delicate little bodies feeling safe and secure from day one. Then, as they blossom, our Cot blankets become cosier nap-time blankies. Grab a Throw, Teen/Adult or Single Bed size, and you’ve got a keepsake kids can snuggle forever.

Material Matters: Natural Softness for Baby’s Skin

When it comes to protecting precious newborn skin, we’re pretty much material snobs over here—but in the best way possible! 

Our personalised baby blankets are knit using premium 100% cotton yarns from quality mills. 

For the ultimate luxury nuzzles straight out of Mother Nature’s pocket, our organic cotton options use ethically sourced fibres that are heavenly soft against even the most delicate skin. 

Available in every size from newborn to adult, these sustainable knits let you customise snuggly warmth from day one.

Design Inspiration: Stitching Memories & Nursery Themes

At Thread The Word, we’re storytellers of love—and our collection tells countless tales through each unique, meaningful pattern. 

If you envision a classic look, our iconic embroidered name blankets can be enhanced with animal prints or botanical icons that charm any nursery theme. 

Or, for the ultimate keepsake, embroider your tiny love’s arrival dates and details onto the plushest knit canvas.

Sentimental photo designs turn any baby pic or family snap into wearable art they’ll cherish for years.

We’ve got a spirited collection of team-inspired styles for sports-fanatic parents to represent their mini athlete-to-be’s future fame!
With our endless personalisation options, your dream custom cot blanket reflects their blooming individuality.

A Curated Colour Palette: Pastels, Brights & More

At Thread the Word, we dish up the most beautiful shades, from soft, subdued pastels that soothe newborn senses to vibrant, eye-catching hues to energise an eclectic nursery mix.

When customising your baby blankets, you’ll pick two complementary tones: one for the cuddly blanket base and another for splashing your personalised name, motif or pattern in unforgettable contrast. 

Our embroidery threads come in super versatile and chic hues to complement every coloured knit.

No colour story is off-limits here! We’re mixing up hues and aesthetics to craft custom nursery pieces as radiant, unique and beautiful as the stars they’re destined to dazzle.

Signature Style: Personalising Down to the Last Letter

Let’s talk about making their name the true centrepiece of these personalised baby blankets! 

With many font styles ranging from timeless scripts to playful block letters, you can capture your little one’s spirit down to the very last punctuation mark.

Feel free to get creative and test different fonts, motifs and accent colours for a delightfully unique design! No matter what, the custom factor puts these knits on cloud nine appeal.

Blanketed in Love: Gifting Sentimental Keepsakes

There’s no present more personal and meaningful than a customised baby blanket from Thread The Word. 

Our bespoke knits make unforgettable gifts for any baby-related occasion, from showers and christenings to birthdays.

A custom name or themed design blanket is a beautiful gift for expectant mothers. Imagine her delight at being showered with a luxuriously personalised newborn blanket before baby’s arrival! 

Once that bundle of joy makes their grand debut, new parents love receiving a customised knitted cot blanket to use as their newborn’s first swaddler or cot cover. You’re giving them both unmatched snuggle quality and a deeply sentimental keepsake.

As little ones reach birthdays and milestones, age-appropriate personalised blankets capture the essence of who they’re becoming. Opt for cutesy animal designs when they’re tots, then ‘level up’ to trendier patterns or sporty motifs as they grow into kids and teens.

For religious naming ceremonies, we can craft designs embellished with meaningful symbols or the brand-new name itself. Cultural heritage baby blankets celebrate family roots and traditions through symbolic icons or colours.

No matter the occasion, the most thoughtful gifting approach is choosing customisation that reflects the recipient’s unique world. 

If they love geometric shapes, mythical creatures, or botanicals, we’ll bring that theme to cuddly life! Our greatest joy is creating personal, meaningful heirlooms straight from the heart.

Keeping Cuddles Cosier, Longer

Whether draped over a rocking chair for feedings or toted to daycare as an adventure buddy, our personalised baby blankets are built to withstand heavy-duty cuddle action! 

The premium quality cotton knits and durable embroidery craftsmanship allow safe machine washing and drying to keep them looking and feeling fresh.

We recommend a gentle cycle with warm water, then tumble dry on low heat or air dry. With this type of simple, proper care, your custom knit can remain in stellar condition for years upon years.

Glowing Reviews: See Our Personalised Baby Blankets in Action!

Explore Bespoke Bliss: Uncovering Your Dream Cot Companion with Thread the Word

From that first whiff of newborn sweetness to those hard-to-imagine high school graduation days, a personalised baby blanket from Thread The Word intertwines comfort and customised love. 

More than just cuddly companions, these one-of-a-kind Australian-made keepsakes become cherished pieces of your family’s story, warmly stitching each chapter together.

So, let’s celebrate your little one’s uniqueness from day one! 

Explore our endless design inspirations and styles to craft the perfect cot blanket as radiant and joyful as they are. With our friendly team of artisans as your guide, transforming dreams into luxurious, personalised reality is just a few heartfelt clicks away.

Snuggle up and get inspired at ThreadTheWord—your bub’s bespoke blankie awaits!

Swaddling, snuggling, cradling — there’s no denying the comforting magic of soft, personalised baby blankets during those precious newborn months. But why relegate such custom-crafted keepsakes solely to the nursery?

These bespoke beauties, carefully embroidered with your little one’s name, spark with untapped potential far beyond bassinet days. From gifting to snuggling up for movie marathons, personalised blankets can turn any moment into a memory-making occasion. 

So, if you thought these name-emblazoned treasures were just for staying warm, think again! We’re about to unveil ten thoughtful ways to use your personalised baby blanket beyond the nursery. 

1. Milestone Blanket for Photo Shoots

Those priceless milestone photos mark such a fleeting yet precious season! Lay your plush, personalised blanket down as a vibrant pop of colour and cosy texture for baby’s picture backdrops. 

The embroidered name, motif or printed design adds the perfect personal touch and sentimental flair that makes each shot unique. You’ll adore having those custom, one-of-a-kind details captured alongside your little one’s growth spurts and adorable changes.

2. Birth Stat Nursery Display

Proudly commemorate your little one’s arrival day stats with a beautiful nursery accent. Imagine a lovely personalised blanket embroidered with the baby’s name, date, and details like weight, length and time of birth. 

As your little one outgrows the blanket, it can become a lifelong decorative keepsake. Display it draped over a nursery armchair, or hang it delicately on the wall in a decorative embroidery hoop.

3. Daycare & Travel Security Blanket

There’s nothing like a familiar keepsake to ease stressful times like starting a new daycare. Show your little one big love by gifting them a personalised security blanket to take along. 
Seeing their embroidered name, cuddly animal friend, or other meaningful motif provides the ultimate cuddles of comfort amidst any separation anxiety. Personalised baby blankets are a constant soft companion to whisk away tears.

4. Gifting for Christenings, Naming Ceremonies and Baby Showers

Personalised blankets featuring custom embroidered motifs make remarkably heartfelt gifts for baby showers when the parents-to-be haven’t revealed the baby’s name yet. These personalised baby gifts envelop the mum-to-be with warmth and style, adding a personal touch even without the name reveal.

Gifting a custom name blanket adds an extra layer of significance to religious christenings, baptisms or cultural naming ceremonies. Present the newly named little one with an embroidered design showcasing their name and commemorating the special day, creating a cherished keepsake.

5. An Adorable Pram Accessory

Personalised pram blankets add a fashionable and functional layer to protect your baby from the elements while looking absolutely adorable. Drape your baby’s personalised blanket over the stroller to offer extra protection from the sun or wind. 
Baby blankets add the perfect pop of personality against sleek stroller designs. Plus, the ultra-soft knits provide cosy comfort for impromptu outdoor tummy times or quick feedings on the go. Your stroller has never looked this cuddly chic!

6. Capture Special Memories with a Photo Blanket

Why let an ultra-memorable photo only live trapped in your mobile gallery? Those freeze-frame moments—like a romantic wedding portrait, family beachside holiday shots, or adorable pet pics—deserve to be decorated proudly onto a custom photo blanket keepsake! 

A custom photo blanket allows you to quite literally wrap yourself in the warmth of life’s unforgettable chapters. Preserving those priceless moments has never felt cosier.

7. Reading Nook Cosy-Up Spot

As those little bookworms grow into voracious storybook adventurers, a personalised blanket becomes the ultimate cornerstone for their imagination nook. The plush custom design instantly beckons: “Cuddle up and get lost in here!” 

Whether draped over a lounger, piled atop poufs, or lining a mini fort, a custom blanket creates an inviting, storybook-worthy atmosphere. Spruce it up with cushions, and their favourite toys—storytime snuggles and unforgettable bonding are guaranteed!

8. Show Your Team Spirit with a Sports Team Blanket

Let’s hear it for our athletic munchkins, tiny dancers, and pint-sized sports superstars! A spirited custom sports team blanket with their name printed alongside sporty motifs is the ideal by-name home team advantage for game days. 

Use it for pre-game warm-ups to get hyped, or drape it over their shoulders in a snuggly swirl of celebratory team pride after each hard-earned victory. Personalised blankets make beautiful gifts for sports fans that’ll last well into their athletic glory!

9. Snuggle up on Movie Nights

Both teenagers and grown-ups can appreciate the meaningful comforts and sophisticated style of personalised blankets! Give any living room or media lounge that chef’s kiss hygge vibe by cosily draping a large throw blanket over the couch. 

Toss in some matching pillows, and voilà—you’ve crafted a selfie-worthy, envy-inducing snuggle scene to savour during family movie marathons!

10. Summer Picnic or Beach Excursion

Once warm weather rolls around; those plush knits instantly upgrade to fetching yet practical picnic blankets and beach-day companions. Personalised blankets keep things casual yet unmistakably bespoke as you frolic on sandy shores or lush green meadows. 

You can also use them as pop-up “cool-off” covers for impromptu siestas! Just toss them in the wash when you get home—these durable pieces are made to withstand all the sunshine, sand and fun-filled adventures.

Blankets that Grow with Baby into Cherished Keepsakes

The beauty of personalised baby blankets is their limitless potential to transition alongside your loved ones through all of life’s remarkable chapters and big moments. From swaddling day one to commemorative wedding decor, pieces that start as simple crib accoutrements evolve into richly storied family keepsakes.

So don’t think of them solely as spit-up coveralls and bassinet snugglers designed for infancy! With creativity and sentimental forethought, these customised creations unlock charming opportunities to weave your family’s unique narrative right into the very fabric. 

Cosy, custom, meaningful, forever—that’s what happens when you repurpose personalised baby blankets into lasting keepsakes. Discover the possibilities by exploring Thread The Word’s exquisite range of personalised blankets today.