The Best Picnic Blankets to Get You Through The Summer

June is Outdoors Month on Apartment Therapy. We've already rounded up some great picnic equipment, but there is one picnic essential that we haven't covered yet. The picnic blanket. Whether you use a classic Pendleton or a newer waterproof model, be sure to keep it in the trunk of your car or in your bike basket for impromptu picnics throughout the summer. (In our hunt, we came across a picnic blanket for $139! Bet you can't spot the most expensive one!)

Did you guess that Blanket 7 (pink and blue stripes) was the most expensive blanket. $139 from Jack Wills.

FIRST ROW
• 1 Eco Picnic Blanket, from etsy seller SewnNatural, $54.00
• 2 Sunshine Blanket Tote, starting at: $19.60 (Kohls has the striped tote for sale, $15.99)
• 3 Carnavale Picnic Blanket, Crate and Barrel, $39.95
• 4 Ground Tamer Blanket, $30
• 5 Vintage Pendleton picnic blanket, from etsy seller oragracevintage, $38.00

SECOND ROW
• 6 Damask waterproof picnic blanket from etsy seller MYOCD
• 7 Marionville Picnic Blanket, Jack Wills, $139
• 8 Picnic Blanket, $14.95

If you're feeling crafty, you make your own picnic blanket with these instructions from Design Sponge.

Comments (6)

I use the yellow and white striped cotton rug from Ikea.

posted by LoriSF on June 1st 2009 at 3:23pm
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HA! of course i picked out the most expensive one...i'm that person that goes to those value stores like marshall's and manages to be attracted to the most expensive piece in the place. go figure.

posted by HugAVeggie on June 1st 2009 at 3:54pm
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Couldn't quite tell if the vintage yellow pitcher is Harlequin or Hall, but I love it.

posted by quiltmaster on June 1st 2009 at 5:42pm
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These are lovely choices but of all the things to buy brand new I would think a blanket to put on the ground and eat on would not be one of them. Go to a thrift store, buy an old quilt, give it a good wash, and never worry about getting it dirty. $139 indeed.

posted by MrsMittens on June 1st 2009 at 8:07pm
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That's my favorite pitcher, quiltmaster... it was my great-grandmother's, Fiesta from the 1930s... many lemonades came out of there!

posted by sewnnatural on June 2nd 2009 at 7:34pm
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Great choices! Yeah for Etsy and reuse!

posted by Jennifer Squires on June 3rd 2009 at 10:31am
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