Thursday we got to work and made the fleece blanket for Baby Sister. I've made one of these simple blankets for each of the kids, and they've always been a favorite for snuggling and watching TV. Hope this one gets just as much use as the Ladybug blanket and the Football blanket have.
Merrilee has finally mastered cartwheels. She's been working on some "pre-cartwheel" moves in gymnastics class, but I've never seen her actually do one in class. Yesterday I asked her if she could do it, and Voila! She did. I think she was just as surprised as me. Then I made her do half a dozen more for the camera.
This girl also has a mean football arm. I started teaching her to throw when she was two. She was a quick study and has made me proud! I love playing football with her.
We made sugar cookie pumpkins yesterday evening. Actually, I let the kids do all the work. I just journaled the event via camera. They had a blast and kept the mess much smaller than I expected. The cookies were all gone as of this afternoon. We'll have to make more before Daddy comes home.
Merrilee's Masterpieces.
Jacob's Works of Art.
2 comments:
Loved the blanket! I tried it this week- only I could fail at a no-sew blanket! It came out looking like a circle, not a square- did I tie the ends too tightly? :)
Laurie, I cut the strips about 4 inches into the two layers of fabric and each strip is about 1 inch wide. I take out an entire 4X4 square on each corner. The whole piece of fabric is about 44 inches square--I buy 45-inch fleece and trim off the selvage edge. I make double knots. The firstknot has to be pretty firm, but only up to the base of the strip. If you pull the knot too tight you end up with the fabric kind of curling up on itself. I'm guessing if you take the corners out of the fabric and retie the end knots, you'll get more of a square corner. Also, you may have noticed the fabric stretches in one direction when you pull the knots tight, but doesn't stretch in the other direction (90 degrees from the stretchy direction). Make sure you have both non-stretchy directions lined up for both pieces of fabric. For the non-stretchy side, I deliberately pull the fabric after every ten or so knots, so the side stays flat. Try that. Hope your blanket comes out the way you want. Petrie
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