The first is a little no-sew fleece blankey I made for my niece's 2nd birthday. She LOVES Toy Story (no amount of caps can fully articulate the amount of love she has for this movie franchise) so when I found this fleece on sale at JoAnn's I had to get it for her. Google will tell you all kinds of complicated ways to turn an easy no-sew blanket into a complicated project, but here's how I did it in under an hour. Count the traffic time to get to the craft store and the wash/dry time for the laundry and it took me three hours.
0. Buy 1.5yards of awesome fleece fabric.
1. Trim the ends that's aren't cute. These are called salvage ends. Make it the whole piece kind of square or rectangle. Throw away scraps so you don't become that crafter.
2. Cut out 4inch ish squares from each corner. Keep the scraps because there's a lot you can do with 4inch squares! Become that crafter a tiny bit.
3. Cut 4 inch cuts about 1 inch apart. all the way around.
---Intermission--- Have a crafter's crisis. Decide RIGHT NOW whether you're going to be the kind of crafter who measures exactly and makes everything perfect and precise, or the kind who thinks the variance and imperfections will be "part of the art."
4. After you've cut your fringe, tie a knot at the base of each strand.
5. If you want to, tug on the edges, making a nice satisfying ripping sound.
6. Wash the blankey and make your spouse gift wrap it. Try not to steal it back from your niece.
Very cute! I made my sister one of these for Christmas 2009 - it has been completely taken over by her cat, of course. But I naturally had to make it harder on myself - I used two pieces of polar fleece so that either side would be "up". (And it's a lot warmer, which my rather cold-blooded sister does need... heh heh heh.)
ReplyDeleteYeah the two pieces thing is what you're supposed to do I think. But my niece lives in Oceanside and one layer is like "woah huge big thick warm winter blanket" and two would be "keep this thing up at the cabin because we'll never use it".
ReplyDeleteI am going to die in Virginia.
No, we have heating for a reason back here. ;-)
ReplyDeleteI mean, if nothing else, just wait til you find fleece on sale and make yourself a giant blanket to wear for half the year. *grin*
Ooh I know! I can sew sleeves into it and sell it on TV!
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