For those who are interested, the following is my sewing background.
I started sewing as a wee child, making Barbie clothes. Then at age 12 I upgraded to gym bags, top-hat toques, and boxers (the ever popular first home-economics project). In high school I further upgraded to sewing lingerie, shirts, and a suit jacket. Those were all my teacher's fault. It was because of that teacher, the teacher who made us put shoulder pads in suits, that I learned how to sew blankets. And since I am frugal, the first thing I resorted to when my friends started to get married was my quilting skills.
I learned quickly that queen size blankets are annoying to make as well as time consuming. I then learned that all that fancy line work just makes the project longer. It was here (see picture), at my 12th blanket that I found out I could connect the front and the back using a regular sewing machine. That's pretty much where I am at now as far as skill, but I finished over 26 blankets thus far, with baby blankets counting as 0.5 blanket.
It is pretty rewarding when people use the blankets I made in their living rooms and then tell me like my blankets and use them to nap all the time. It is also rewarding to have people appreciate them just because they like me as a person. People don't tell each other they appreciate each other enough, and the roundabout compliment is one of the ways they do that.
As far as how this blanket was made, I made six inch squares and sewed strips between them to form the core. Then I just added long strips to make it larger.
I learned quickly that queen size blankets are annoying to make as well as time consuming. I then learned that all that fancy line work just makes the project longer. It was here (see picture), at my 12th blanket that I found out I could connect the front and the back using a regular sewing machine. That's pretty much where I am at now as far as skill, but I finished over 26 blankets thus far, with baby blankets counting as 0.5 blanket.
It is pretty rewarding when people use the blankets I made in their living rooms and then tell me like my blankets and use them to nap all the time. It is also rewarding to have people appreciate them just because they like me as a person. People don't tell each other they appreciate each other enough, and the roundabout compliment is one of the ways they do that.
As far as how this blanket was made, I made six inch squares and sewed strips between them to form the core. Then I just added long strips to make it larger.
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