Over the week-end, I met Grandma Julie.  Such a delightful person.

I asked her if she would tell me something that she does with her grandchildren that I could share on my site.  She immediately said, “Make sleeping bags.”

Oh my!  Sew adventurous.  (Get the pun?)

If you’re a sewer, I think you’ll be able to follow the directions she gave me.  She puts some quilt batting between two pieces of fabric and sews a couple of rows of stitching to keep the batting in place.  Then, she sews in a zipper.  She makes it sound so easy.  But for all of you seamstresses out there, I’m sure you could figure out how to make a sleeping bag.

She also makes a matching pillowcase.

She has all of her grandchildren over.  They put the sleeping bags on the family room floor, pop popcorn, and watch a movie. Then they sleep on the family room floor.  (She admitted that she slept on the couch.  Good for her!  I certainly would.  My old bones would complain if I slept on the floor.)

Did I tell you she had 10 grandchildren?  So she has made 10 sleeping bags.  Wow!  What a nice grandma.

If you’re not much of a seamstress, you could probably just sew a velor blanket together (probably without a zipper would be okay) and then be done with it.  You could probably get several bags out of one king sized blanket.

Or, you could take the easy way out.  Just watch the sales and buy some sleeping bags.