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| Lydia enjoying her new fleece blanket I made. |
This is a no-sew (which is good for me) patchwork fleece quilt. It was supposed to be bigger, but it turned out to be about 3 foot by 3 foot. Good size for a doll. Or baby, but we don't have any of those in this house.
This pic shows the underside, the one without fringe. Lydia likes that side better. I like both.
I'm posting this because I searched all over and could not find instructions for a blanket like this, only a kit to buy. Here is the video for the kit - (Oh, sorry, I realized my column width is not big enough. I suggest you watch on YouTube.)
You can buy the kit here. But I figured I could do it myself in the colors Lydia wanted, for less. :)
All of the instructions I found online were for a 2-ply fleece blanket that was only fringed on the edges, but I like the patchwork look. Now, I learned a bit by doing it myself. I cut 8-inch squares, but by the time I knotted the fringe together, my squares ended up only being about 4 inches. Thus the small baby doll size blanket. Oh well. Next time I do it, I will cut large squares, maybe 12 inches, or even 18 inches, so that after knotting they will still be decent size. If you would like to try this and need more instructions than the above video provides, I found this yesterday -
JoAnn Project. If that link doesn't work, try this -
JoAnn Project.
I measured my squares to cut them into the 8-inch size, but after that I just eyeballed them. I cut little squares out of each corner (maybe 1 1/2 by 1 1/2 or even 2 by 2 inches), then I had what looked like the Red Cross symbol. Then cut finger size fringe on all four sides.
