Romantic picnic blanket
Materials Needed:
* 2 yards red polar fleece (60 inches wide)
* 1/2 yard white polar fleece
* fusible web
* scissors (now is the time to dig out those craft scissors with the fancy edges you bought 3 years ago and haven’t used yet)
* iron
Making fleece blankets seem all the rage now, and although I’ve seen some lovely examples, for the most part, I really do not care for the tied fringe look. Reminds me too much of 1970’s macramé. Just icky and in fact, exactly the type of icky that I started Kattitudes.com to avoid. This blanket, however, is a little different in that you control the edges yourself with your fancy craft scissors. Although this blanket was originally meant for a Valentine’s Day gift, it could easily be adjusted for any other holiday or occasion.
Confession time. In making this blanket, I dislike the fringe edges so much that I took the time to whip through and put a blanket stitch around the edges of my blankets instead. I significantly prefer the look and the blanket stitch is amazingly simple. Eventually I will include a section on embroidery and simple stitches and I will update this page to reflect the sewing choice also.
Trim the selvages off of the red polar fleece. Cut “fringes” all the way around the fleece: done by cutting about 2 inches into the fabric every 1/2 inch along all 4 edges. (By the by, this is a lovely time to put to use all of those craft scissors with the scrummy lovely shapely edges that cut in an interesting pattern).
Fuse one side of the fusible web to the wrong side of the white fleece. Leave paper backing on. Cut heart shapes out of white fleece. You can use a pattern to cut the hearts, but remember the appeal of a homemade look. Fuse the heart onto the right side of the red fleece.
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