Cricut - Flannel Blankets

Update - I posted this on a couple of cricut forums and someone made this comment:
"I’ve read that a lot of people recommend to use flocked or glitter htv. Something about the regular htv shows the “fuzzy” texture too much through it and it wrinkles. "

I started with the popular red truck graphic.  I ungrouped it, removed the tree, and then chose attach, to make it all one color.  To add the name underneath, I went to my cheat sheet of favorite fonts and chose Dk Jambo. Then I selected all and flipped it horizontally.

I measured the corner of the blanket and decided to resize the image to about 5x3.

For my first one, I used the silicone pad under the blanket, and parchment paper on top.  I had my iron between wool and cotton.  That's a little too warm - I moved it back to before the wool setting for the rest.  

And still, every one, when I pulled back the plastic looked like this:

I put parchment paper over the top, and pressed for about 5 seconds at a time, until they smoothed out.  Normally I press 10 seconds at a time, but I was being very cautious with these.

The blankets were $2.99 at Kmart.

I made these for my daughter in laws, along with pillows, this Christmas.  I'd like to make more, but I'm just not certain how well they are going to hold up.  The vinyl just does not seem to go on these as well as it does on other fabrics.  But it does seem secure..  I just don't know.  They do look nice.

Instructions for the pillows are here:

On the tree behind the blankets is my Gilmore Girls tree - instructions for those ornaments are here:

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