Some folks have a weakness to chocolate, little bunnies, or Johnny Depp. Mine is Pendleton fabric. I stopped by the Pendleton fabric store on Friday and couldn't resist buying beautiful scraps of wool from their $3 a pound bins. The blanket scraps weighed in at a little over 2 pounds, which was a steal. In addition to the fabric, I picked up some white wool tape to join the fabric pieces together.
When I got home, I arranged the fabric pieces on the floor and then trimmed the frayed edges.
I cut the wool tape in half lengthwise and started sewing the tape onto the edges of the remnants. Once I was done with one seam, I flipped the blanket over and repeated this step.
[One of the friendly Pendleton store employees, who had made a blanket from remnants, recommended using a zigzag stitch to join the fabric edges together before laying down the wool tape. Of course, the zigzag function quit working on my machine at the start of the project, so I skipped this step.]
After all the strips were sewn together, I finished the blanket with wool tape folded over the outside edge.
To personalize the blanket, I embroidered the year on one side and our family name on the other. Since it's a nice heavy wool, it'll make the perfect blanket to wrap up in around a camp bonfire. I do love those cool summer nights in Oregon.
Over the weekend, I also found this fantastic Pendleton weekender bag at an estate sale for $15. The gods must be happy with me.
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