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Gran wrote:
Oh, I understand what you mean. It gives some weight to the edge, helps it to hang better, in sewing terms. I have found my serger has paid for itself many times over for all the fleece blankets I have made. I have 2 dogs that sleep on my bed, a great dane & a rottweiler so they dirty blankets up pretty fast. So I buy 5 yards of fleece when it is on sale, put about 18" of width on each side to make a nice overhang. I serge the two seams, then serge around the edges and I have great blankets that wash and dry beautifully and are warm at night. I love fleece. You can do so much to decorate it. I have made many for my gkids too with embroidery on one corner in their favorite design. Have fun!!! Gran I have really been fighting the urge to get a serger...but keep telling myself I have 4 machines already...do I really need a serger but just to be able to sew around my quilts or plain blankets or even placemats would be a blessing. What kind do you have and any features I should look for? I have seen them range alot in price. |
Such nice baby blankets....
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I love these fleece blankets!! Very cute and cleverly done!
The missionary quilt is gorgeous!! :D:D:D |
Originally Posted by purrfectquilts
I spent my snow day making fleece blankets with appliques and finishing up a quilt for a missionary at church.
For those of you who asked for details with the pictures, I trimmed the fleece evenly and did the corners by cutting around a stainless steel bowl. Then I just used scraps to make a variety of appliqued shapes ... heavy on the hearts because I had a new Kaye Wood View and Do shape to try out. The edges were turned under 3/8" (the width of my presser foot) with no measuring or pinning and sewn in most cases with a blanket stitch and thread as close to the right color as I had. The green ones are for a baby and I bound one with Winnie the Pooh fabric and appliqued the other with different hearts ... fussy cut. The dark pink one is a quillow. Opens up into a blanket or folds into a pillow. The church quilt is all scraps and meant to be Tuscan colors. The missionaries are usually, but not always men and the church gives a quilt to each missionary that comes to the mission conference in early February. I washed all of them so that there would be no harmful residue for children or babies and so that the church quilt would look more old-timey. |
They all are so nice!
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Those are just darling. I love the colors in the first one.
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