Olaf Blanket

It seems like my posts are becoming farther and farther apart.  I started the year thinking I was not going to slack off, and I got a good run for a few posts, but now it seems like months have passed since my last post. And I am not sure what happened.

Ok with that off my chest I wanted to show off the 2 blankets I sewed for 2 of my grandsons in 2014.  It seemed like Olaf from the Frozen movie was their choice of themes for Christmas that year and wanted all things Olaf.  So DIL was sure I could provide a couple of Olaf blankets. I don't know why she thought I was such a miracle worker.  But it became my mission to find Olaf Fabric. It was hard finding Olaf material that was worthy of a couple of winter blankets.  Most I found was either cotton, or flannel which was good for Pillow cases...

but I had my heart set on fleece. I had all but given up and was wondering around a supermarket of all places and there it was a OLAF No~Sew Blanket.  So very inexpensive also, I only paid $8.99 for each, I had to get 2. These boys are in a room together and close to age so for things such as this I usually get the same design. I alter each in some way so they each know which blanket is their own. I Loved this find as I always double layer my blankets, it makes them more warm and soft, and the boys seem to love that. So these No Sew Blankets are just the ticket as it takes all the decision making of what to use as a back layer out!  Yes I can be a lil bit lazy....Or you could say I just try to make it as easy as possible.

I usually try to make my own binding so that was all I needed to do and to then sew the front and back together. I have lots of scraps and lots of jean scraps. I decided to make my binding out of jeans. I had blue jeans for one boy and black jeans for the other this way they know which blanket is their blanket.

There are tutorials all over the internet so I won't go into that here but its really simple once you get the hang of it or find a simple tutorial.  You can easily buy binding, and I have but I like to make blankets and quilts and since this was a no sew blanket I wanted to make it my own as much as possible.

I think they came out fine.  The white lines on the side where you are supposed to "cut" and tie since it was supposed to be a No Sew Blanket, I think worked out ok, boys don't know that, just looks like its a design element. :)

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