Weighted blankets
#5
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Illinois
Posts: 1,820
I made one a few years ago. As I recall, I did an online search for a video and chose how I wanted to do it. Used a tightly woven full sized sheet, hoping it would hold up better with use. With it folded in half, it was a good size to use atop a twin sized bed. As I recall, I sewed columns, weighed pellets to fill one "pod", stitched, then fill the next, stitch, etc. By the time it was completed, it was getting pretty heavy to hoist around but it went well and still being used. Be sure you don't hit the pellets with your needle! I don't remember the one who did the online video but that was one of her comments, too!!
#6
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Join Date: May 2015
Location: Maine
Posts: 293
Oooh.. Ohh! I have an awesome tutorial on this from You Tube and I was going to do one. Here ya go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svqiyDlJmus
Hope this helps. It seems very thorough and has some good tips. Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svqiyDlJmus
Hope this helps. It seems very thorough and has some good tips. Enjoy!
#8
I was going to link you to Rob Appell's video on making the weighted quilts but Jcarpentier beat me to it. He has a great video & gives info like how much weight for it, etc. If I were making one I would use the poly pellets. I don't use rice, beans, walnut shells (food products) for anything that will attract vermin.
#10
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: southeast Missouri
Posts: 85
We made them in our FCE clubs. we give them to the Autism center. We make ours about finished size 36 x 42. we use commercial Velcro. we make channels about 7' wide and them we put 1 lb. of stripped material in them.
the stripes are cut about 1 to 1 1/2 " wide. We have been making these for about 10 years . we do it twice a year and we average at least 100 a year. we also make small ones that is about 18 long and about 24 wide.. we channel them also and then we make a another bag the size of channel and put rice in that bag sew closed and put in the channels. we also use Velcro on these.
the stripes are cut about 1 to 1 1/2 " wide. We have been making these for about 10 years . we do it twice a year and we average at least 100 a year. we also make small ones that is about 18 long and about 24 wide.. we channel them also and then we make a another bag the size of channel and put rice in that bag sew closed and put in the channels. we also use Velcro on these.
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