When I was pregnant with Peter we received no less than 7 hand-made baby blankets. When Amber was born we received another 3. I treasured all of them because they were made by people I cared about who cared about me, many of whom knew me from when I was little (women in my mother's Bible study group made several.)
Most of the other store-bought stuff people gave me from when the kids were babies has been passed on, but I still have the hand-made blankets because I'm sentimental like that. No one asked me about colors or anything, and they ranged from light-forest green, to silky white, to google-colored.
The thing about having a lot of baby blankets is that (at least in this area) people tend to stash them in the diaper bag, and then when you go somewhere, you spread the blanket out on the floor before setting your baby down on places people have been walking. You wash them and rotate through them, so plan for using something that is washable. The larger blankets are good for when the child is a little older (18 m) and wants to sleep with something, because the infant-sized ones are too small for that.
With your family, I get the feeling people could manage to not appreciate something whether it was made-to-order or not, so I'd say "do it" if you would enjoy doing it and feel love toward your sister and her baby while making it, and "don't do it" if you'd feel resentment during the process.
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Most of the other store-bought stuff people gave me from when the kids were babies has been passed on, but I still have the hand-made blankets because I'm sentimental like that. No one asked me about colors or anything, and they ranged from light-forest green, to silky white, to google-colored.
The thing about having a lot of baby blankets is that (at least in this area) people tend to stash them in the diaper bag, and then when you go somewhere, you spread the blanket out on the floor before setting your baby down on places people have been walking. You wash them and rotate through them, so plan for using something that is washable. The larger blankets are good for when the child is a little older (18 m) and wants to sleep with something, because the infant-sized ones are too small for that.
With your family, I get the feeling people could manage to not appreciate something whether it was made-to-order or not, so I'd say "do it" if you would enjoy doing it and feel love toward your sister and her baby while making it, and "don't do it" if you'd feel resentment during the process.
--Beth