Weighted blankets
 

Have any of you made a weighted blanket.

My friend Susan just made one. It has pockets of batting and plastic pellets. It looks like a lot of work, but very comfortable for some people.

Search on here for weighted quilts. There have been a couple of threads on here about them.

My friend has made a few of them. Seem like she quilted it into columns like tubes and filled them with the plastic pellets. She then quilts the pellets into squares.

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!!

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!

I have been making them for the group home I work at, they do get heavy as your sewing them together. I use rice.

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.

I have made 2...they aren't that hard...unless you you use minky on both sides😔. I would not use rice...you will want to wash them. I bought pellets. Let me know if you have any specific questions

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.