How To Make Animal Blankets Out Of Fleece Pieces

Our women'due south group at church building just participated in a niggling service project for the local children'south dwelling house. When the kids exit the children's home, they get a drawstring bag with a blanket, a stuffed animal, a volume, and a hygiene kit. We got together about a week ago to sew the bags and some blankets. One of the women from church building makes and sells fleece blankets, so she donated a huge purse of scraps for us to apply. My challenge: effigy out how to make fleece blankets from just the scraps. And so if you lot've got a bunch of fleece scraps laying around, hither's something that yous can do with it! Also take a look at these easy bootleg blanket tutorials.

Cut the fleece into sixteen x x 10 inch squares. Y'all can make them any size you want, you'll but terminate upwardly with a unlike size blanket or demand to cut more or less squares. This makes a blanket that would be a adept size for a babe or toddler. Just cutting more if you lot want it to be bigger. Lay the squares out in an arrangement that looks dainty. I'm a fiddling OCD, so I always attempt to brand a design. I've already done some of the pinning here, simply y'all get the idea.

We didn't take any pieces that were big enough for a backing, and I didn't want to have to slice together a front AND back of each blanket. I could have sewn the pieces together like to you would a quilt, just and then you would have a pretty front and an ugly back. Instead, I decided to overlap the pieces about 1/2-inch and zig-zag stitch down the heart. Keep reading to see what I mean.

Kickoff by pinning and sewing each of the rows together offset.

I did the overlapping in a design then that one square was on the bottom, and the side by side foursquare was on top. Take a look at the photos to see what I mean. I didn't really even measure out. But try to exist consistent and overlap about 1/2-inch each time.

I find it very helpful to use a walking presser foot if y'all have ane. It helps the thick, stretchy fabric become through the machine more than evenly. After all of the rows are done, you tin pin and sew the rows to each other.

Make sure that the seams from all of the squares line upwards with each other. The nice thing almost the fleece existence stretchy is that you can make the seams line upwards past giving the fabric a little tug before pinning. Again, just a zig-zag stitch here, and I used the same pattern of overlapping that I did with the squares.

When all of the rows are sewn together, you lot've got your blanket. The edges seemed to exist lacking something, so I went effectually the outside with this curvy, decorative stitch. You could besides put some kind of bounden on it. Fleece doesn't fray, so you could simply leave information technology as-is if you desire.