At couple of weeks ago, my husband and I went to St. George, Utah, for a little get away in the sun and the warmth. Delightful place. Beautiful red sandstone hills. Clear blue skies. Within one-half hour of getting home, it started to snow. From our 78 degree warmth and sunshine experience, we plummeted to 36 degree snow and dreary gray weather. Sigh.

I have been able to finish sewing the edges of the quilt that we tied at the baby shower that we had for our daughter-in-law. (With weather like we’ve been having this winter, she will need quilts clear into July for our grandson!!!)

Here are two thumbnail pictures of the quilt. Click on the picture to see a bigger view.

A thimble-wearin’-needle-wieldin’ Digi-Gram

I gave a baby shower to my daughter-in-law back in February. I thought that as part of the activities in the shower we could tie a baby quilt. When I was shopping for the fabric, I also found some soft, pretty fleece. (I LOVE fleece material!!) The fabric store had a sample blanket made up that had a really unique edging so I decided to make a baby blanket with that edging on it.

The pattern on the fleece was a blue and white checked. I cut the fabric along the lines of the checks all around the edge of the blanket. Then, I fan folded the fabric and used a very small zig-zag stitch in the center through all the thicknesses of the folds. This created a little fan so there were fans all along the edge of the blanket. It was really simple to do and made up really fast. It took me less than an hour to make the blanket.

Click on these two pictures so that you can see a larger image of the fan fold design. This first picture shows a close up view of the edge so you can easily see the fan fold.

I think this edging would be cute to have on pink blankets for little girls, too! In fact, this edge will work on any fleece type of fabric. Just make cuts that are 4 inches apart and 4 inches into the fabric.

This was a VERY easy blanket to make. It is something that anyone can make — even if you have minimal sewing skills. I hope that by seeing pictures of the one I made that other grandmothers will be motivated to try their hand at making a similar blanket.

Happy blanket making
Digi-Gram