Mom Finds Eager Market for Baby Blanket Invention
Amy Long, of McKinney, didn’t set out to be an entrepreneur when she invented the Secure2Me blanket. She was just trying to find a way to keep her newborn son’s blanket from slipping off.
“I just had my third baby and ran out of hands,” Long said. “I struggled to keep him covered that first fall and winter.”
The mother of three said tucking the blanket into the car seat or stroller proved to be an ineffective way to keep the blanket in place.
“The baby either kicks it or it falls,” Long said.
Long, a registered nurse, said she played around with different methods to keep the blanket in place.
“I first tried these long safety pins,” Long said. “Then I tried these big alligator clips. Of course, safety pins put holes in my fabric. Plus, I didn’t think it was very safe to have metal near my baby.”
After securing a safe metal clip to the blanket and clipping the ends to her baby gear, the Secure2Me blanket was born.
“I completed my first blanket in November, and we took it to Costco and I was mobbed,” Long said. “People just loved them.”