How to Make a Tabbed Blanket for Project Linus
The How To:
Hand-tied fleece blankets are a great group activity. It’s an opportunity to bring a smile to many faces — those making the blankets and those receiving them. They need to be a minimum of 42 inches by 42 inches and ONLY SINGLE LAYER.
There are many varying instructions for hand-tie blankets. Please follow the instructions from our chapter as they have been written to include feedback from our partners. Living in Southern FL, double-sided blankets are too heavy, and ones with a long fringe tangle in medical instruments and tubing. Before purchasing materials or making blankets, please contact us with any questions you may have.
We do not recommend using any Ultra Cuddle, Minky or micro Fleece fabric.
How To Make a Fleece Blanket:
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Tabbed, No-Sew Version about 42 inches by 42 inches.
Required Materials:
- Fleece: 1 to 1 ½ yard piece of an anti-pill or blizzard fleece (NO MICROFLEECE, CUDDLE OR MINKY fabric)
Required Notions:
- Quilter’s ruler or yardstick
- Scissors
- 1/16-inch hole scrapbooking paper punch
- Rotary cutter
- Mat
Steps:
- Remove selvages from fleece with a rotary cutter and discard. Sometimes white in color, selvages are typically on two sides of the fabric and identifiable by text and/or small holes. Your blanket will look better, and the ends will not fray with the selvages removed.
- Square up fleece. Using scissors, cut a 3-inch square from each corner and discard.
- Cut 1-inch wide fringe strips around the blanket with sharp scissors. Make sure the fringe is 3-inches long and cut cleanly with no jagged edges.
- Using a scrapbooking punch, punch a hole at the top center of each fringe strip.
- Feed the end of the fringe through the back side of the hole, easing the strip through with the blunt edge of a candy apple stick. Pull the fringe tab through to the blanket's front side to create a neat and secure edge. All tabs should be going in the same direction.