Here's another project that the PIC and I worked on around Christmastime. It's a blanket/quilt we made for our little niece for a Christmas present. She has a red barnyard theme nursery--appropriate, as she is growing up in a barn. (I feel a draft...did someone leave a door open??)The red, black, and white squares are made from t-shirt material. The white-stars-on-red and the black border are fleece. For the t-shirt fabric, we used a lot of old t-shirts for that great old-t-shirt feeling, but we did have to buy some red jersey when we ran out of red t-shirts. So, some of the red jersey and all of the fleece came from...you guessed it, Hancock Fabrics. The blanket is twin-sized (we measured my old comforter from college). It's also REALLY heavy because of the two layers. This is a bit unfortunate as her parents keep the barn hovering around 85 degrees all winter long with their wood burning stove.
We freestyled the whole thing together, having never made a blanket/quilt type thing before, and not having a pattern to draw from. We simply cut 4" squares and sewed, and sewed, and sewed. When we finally finished with the diagonal top, we bought yards of fleece and freestyled together the borders and attached them to the sqares as we went. When we were finished laying out each side, stitching it together, and flipping it right side out, we ran a line of machine "quilting" around every other set of squares, from the outside in, to help it stick together like a blanket instead of a giant fleece bag. It worked pretty well.
For those of you who are curious, you can check out a short video the PIC made of the layout process on his blog: A Sprinkler in the Rain.
Also, we'd like to give a special thanks to Bosco for inspecting the workmanship!
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