Blankets are a great gift for your college or pro football fanatic this season. And hand-crafted blankets carrying the name and mascot of thier favorite team are especially cool. You don't need to have any sewing skills to create one either.
With
J & O's wide selection of 100% poly-winterfleece and a pair of scissors, you can make a warm & lightweight blanket for your friends, family, team-mates, or even yourself. Just follow the easy step instructions below and watch your fabric turn into an armor of pride to keep warm under during those windy season games.
Step One:
Come to
J&O Fabrics and pick from a selection of College & NFL fleece fabrics representing the teams you or your loved ones follow. Have a store employee cut the fabric into a 2-4yard length depending on the size of the individual who will be wrapped inside.
Step Two:
Wash the fabric with cold water on gentle cycle, or hand wash. Any detergent will do.
Lay fabric flat to dry.
Step Three:
Lay fabric out on a large flat surface. Turn one of the shorter ends towards you and smooth out any wrinkles.
Step Four:
Cut a fringe along one short side by making 3-inch deep straight cuts about a 1/2-1 inch apart.
Step Five:
Tie a single knot at the base of each cut strip to complete the fringe along one side of the blanket.
Step Six:
Turn the fleece to the other short side and smooth out the wrinkles. Make the same size cuts a 1/2-inch apart and then tie knots to match the other side.
Step Seven:
Step back and pat yourself on the back. Your completed college / pro football no-sew fleece blanket is done! Give as a gift or keep for yourself.
Now wasn't that easy.
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Hey, that's an order. Anyway, around this time of year fleece seems to fly off the shelves here at J&O. What are people doing with it? Whatever they feel like, we guess. Fleece blankets make nice gifts and are easy to put together because there's not a lot of sewing involved. Just get yourself about 2 yards, bind the edges some way and you're all set.
A customer in our store in New Jersey once asked "What other material can I use for a blanket besides fleece?" For those of you who enjoy arts and crafts but aren't that crafty, our pre-quilted fabrics can be made into a blanket in a flash. In solid colors and prints, some have one layer of cotton with batting, while others have two layers of cotton fabric with batting in the middle. Basically, the two sided ones are premade bedspreads sold by the yard and cheaper than fleece.
Fleece is soft and oh-so warm. Sometimes when it gets cold in the store, us workers tie some of the remnants around our necks and 20 minutes later we're hot!
If your interested in making blankets for your loved ones, try mixing our popular polar fleece with a quilted fabric. Here's some coordinating fleece and quilted fabrics for baby blankets to grown up bedspreads.
Combine Bears Polar Fleece with Orange Circle Quilted Fabric
Or combine pink fleece with pink quilted; tan fleece with tan quilted.
Or do opposites, red quilted with blue fleece.
For a child's blanket combine any of our children's quilted designs with a red or blue solid fleece.
Oh, did we forget to mention our collection of fur???? J&O's faux Fur is also a warm and cozy material that can be made into a blanket. Did we forget to mention that? I guess we did, maybe another time. We're telling you J&O has sew many possibilities.
Every now and then at J&O we get some strange orders and we say,"I wonder what this person is making?" How 'bout letting us know. What do you do with the fabric you order from J&O????????
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