Sorry for the delay! It's Thanksgiving week, so I'm in my hometown visiting with my family. My mom & I worked on these blankets all day yesterday! But, they take awhile - and so does filming & editing. Didn't want to skip this week's DIY, though, so I hope you enjoy. :) I'm staying in my hometown all next week as well! I will be making some Christmas home decor projects with my mom to show you all.
We made fleece throw blankets in Girl Scouts when I was younger for the people in the cold. And we did this same method. I made a whole blanket myself. It took forever, but it was so much fun!!
I love you so much and the whole reason I started crafting was bc of you and now I feel like I finally have a voice bc I was bullied in the past. Thank you so much 😘
Love your videos and happy spirit! For real easy measuring I use blue painters tape 2" width over and over! Whether single layer blanket or double, I take the roll of tape, for the first time stick to the edge at end of a long side and roll to other end cut tape.. Take a yard stick and mark 1" or whatever width your strips will be mare the increments hash tags with a ball point pen.(Hash marks only need to be about 1/4-1/2" horizontally long) For my cut out squares at the corners I made simple templates using card board from a cereal box, for 2" - 5" squares you can then just lay on the corners to get nice even squares. Cut your corners out using template depending on what edging you are doing.. Then lay your blue tape from cut out corner to other corner. Now you can cut your strips nice and even. I use this blue tape strip over and over and can get about 6 blankets or more out of one strip. Specially good for those of us who have "older eyes or unsteady hands". No buying expensive measuring mats! Keep up your "craftiness!' You do an awesome job!
Hi Sarah I just wanted to tell u don't listen to haters and u have inspired me to do a lot of crafts I have got better and better and I have seen all you're videos I'm glad for u for all of you're subscribers and I'm glad I'm one of them and I'm sorry if I have miss spelled some words .👍👍👍👍👍👍
In craft club at my school we did a giving tree, you get a piece of cross stitch fabric and you draw a tree on it then (put on a pair of gloves) you get stamp pads and use your fingers too put leaves on the tree. You can write the first letter of last name on it like I did. Also the get hot glue gun (should do this first) and glue a stickk (we use a long cinnamon one) to it then get some yarn or string and tie it to each side of stick and your done.
My grandma and I make these all the time. A few tips I have. If you don't have an area large enough to lay your fabric out, use a bed. Just don't cut the bed. My second tip is for when cutting to corners. Make a teplate out of some scrap cardboard.
Thank you for this video, love the bradred blanket. Plan on doing these on Christmas day with some missionaries from my church to give to the homeless.
I bought a no sew fleece blanket "kit" years ago.. sad I know I never got around to it. I am excited now to try that second one with the slits..... It loooks awesome!!!!! Now if only I can find the time! >.
Thank you for sharing your braided method I think it will work for me. I don't care for the knot method for small children and infants. I believe. The braided method will be safer for the small children. Thanks again.
Sarah u are probably the most CRAFTASTIC person I know (I know it cheesy) and I started crafting because of you over the summer I would stay home and really not do much but one time a few (like around 2-3 years ago) I went to this museum with my school and went to the gift the gift shop and they had one of those really cool candy wrapper purse and I thought wow I like to buy it but it was a lot of money so when I got home I went on RU-vid and I looked up how to make a candy wrapper purse and somehow I randomly came to notice ur channel (the first video I saw was ur candy wrapper jewelry video) and I loved it so then I went on ur channel and started watch more of your videos and now CRAFTING has become a HUGE part of my LIFE and I just want to say THANK YOU I know this was long but if you took your time to read this I REALLY APPRECIATE IT I love you SARAH ❤️ and you are INZAYNLY TALENTED
I like your tutorial. I am working with an organization that gives blankets to children in hospitals and when they were training us on how these blankets should be done, they specified not to make them look like fitted sheets in the corners. I guess you wold need to pull and stretch or maybe not make the knots too tight in the corners but I notice they do tend to do that.
And I was really looking forward to making my blanket I got from Jo-Ann's and I had trouble lining up the edges and got really frustrated and just stopped trying so you helped me a lot! And I got 700k sub. Congrats, yes I am that last comment below me.
U are so good me my momma and sis was at hobby lobby looking at fabric and was like we wanted to make a cover then i seen this and i only new about the first blanket u did but when i want to learn how to do something i go to your pafe thanks alot
I'm glad it's a project you didn't know of before!! My friends used to make these when we were younger - I helped them, but for some reason I hadn't made one for myself.
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im doing one at my school for cancer kids and it does takes a lots of days and i really liked it because were doing the same thing that you did on your video
These are the nicest tied fleece blankets I've ever seen! LOVE the fox fabric too! I also wanted to say that having been subbed since the beginning - I love that you make crafts that everyone can do - for all ages and abilities. Looking forward to more Christmas home crafts too!
Thank you so much for the braided method of the No Sew blanket! I have been putting off making mine but now I am eager to make it using the braided method. Happy Holidays!
Congrats on hitting 700, 000 subbies!! I only have 4 youre a great inspiration and im speaking for the 700, 000+ people who adore u . You are just... breathtaking!
I have been making these blankets sense I was about five I would do them with my mom then I started to do them by myself and I have made about 50 of them and I'm snuggled with one right now:))) also Congrats on 700,000 you totally deserve it!!!!
I wish I had seen this before I made my dad one last year. It came out so bad I had to buy a new one then sew it. (I ended up using the material from the first one to make a matching pillow). Haha... I think the second method is especially cool.
What a cute print! This video was very helpful! I'm going to make my first one soon. I might give the braided look a try. This looks like a good size! I only got 48 x 60 just like the kits they sell.
Would pinking shears work for this instead of fabric scissors? I think it may help with the weird stretching thing the fleece does, plus add a nice little edge on the tied pieces.
Hi Sarah! Do you think that in future videos you could make some paper DIYs like origami and such because I'm a big fan of that and most tutorials I have found are not very descriptive to me and all of your videos are clear and easy to follow. Looking forward to holiday videos and many more fun DIYs. You're an amazing artist and very creative. I always look forward to Fridays! SoCraftastic
I saw this video and I thought "oh weird"... I thought that because I was going to make my friend this kind of blanket tomorrow for her birthday on Monday and I was planing on it before you posted the video. I knew how to do it but never have made one yet. Thanks for the video, it help refresh my mind on how to make one. Hope mine turns out as good as yours :) Thanks for sharing, hope you and your family had a good Thanksgiving :)
