Father's Day Project #1

So my best friend made me this blanket for Christmas. I LOVE and use it ALL the time!

  Why does this matter?

                                                                  I'm about to tell you...
 So, I was thinking about what I would get daddy for Father's Day and figured a blanket would be a good idea since he likes to take his little naps on the couch before work, all wrapped up in some kind of blanket.
I didn't wanna get him just any blanket, so I looked at Walmart's and Walgreen's online photo centers for those fleece blankets with collages on them. I figured I could upload a few pics and get him one.
Wellllllll... Bad idea. Those things aren't cheap! Lol
 So I called T.P. up, asked her how she made mine and made one for Daddy:)

I started by getting some fleece from walmart. I got 1 1/2 yards in the Carolina blue/white and the solid white. When I got home, I laid the two pieces together, smoothed out the air bubbles and used sewing pins to keep them together.

I ended up having to go back and put the pins about 2 inches higher than they are in the first picture because of the way you have to cut it.

I cut a square off, about the size of the one I'm holding in the pic, on each corner. For the strips, I cut most of them about the width of my thumb or a little smaller and the length of the scissors.

Then, I started knotting the strips.:)

 

I made sure to knot it so that the solid white showed on the printed side and the print showed on the white side.

And this is the finished product.

I think it looks pretty great myself. I can't wait till he sees it.:)

He shouldn't see this post since he doesn't get online much. He probably doesn't even know I still blog...

Anyway... Thank you, T.P. for helping me with this project!