need suggestions

If you want quite a few different ideas for finishing fleece - check out my
Project Linus chapter website -
http://www.linusidaho.org/finishafleeceblanket.htm
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Donna in Idaho
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"Jacqueline" wrote in message
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I bought this fleece fabric, similar to this http://tinyurl.com/2kebm3
I had planned on making this for my nephew by taking flannel and
making a backing for it but my sister says he would rather have it as
is with the edges finished, so he can use it as a wall hanging. Yes,
I know I live in KY and most Kentuckians are die heart Wildcat fans,
but not my nephew, he is crazy on the NC tarheels and has been since
he was in about the 8th grade. Anyway what would be the best way to
put a finishing edge on this fleece. First it is very stretchy, I
have thought of, this is if I knew how but I am sure I can read and
learn to do a rolled hem on it and then I have thought about just
doing a regular hem since he is going to use it as a wall hanging or
we think he will.

I know you are experts at this kind of thing and any suggestions are
appreciated. I do have the pressure foot for a rolled hem, will just
have to learn how to do it.

Thank you in advance and I welcome all suggestions but I do need to
get started cause his birthday is Feb. 23.

Jacqueline in KY
Jacqueline in Kentucky, USA
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Donna, that's such a terrific site. I've marked it as a favorite so I can
go back and ponder every suggestion. The bunny hem edge is adorable.
For Jacqueline, I'm not too sure about using the rolled hem foot on fleece.
The fleece may be too bulky. Even if that is possible to feed through, you'd
still have to deal with the corners. It would be really hard to square them
and even harder to curve the corners without some lettuce-edged wobbles. My
goodness, I do hate to be a naysayer but please do go with one of Donna's
finishes. Polly

"Donna in Idaho" wrote If you want quite a few different ideas for
finishing fleece - check out my
Project Linus chapter website -
http://www.linusidaho.org/finishafleeceblanket.htm
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"Jacqueline" wrote
I bought this fleece fabric, similar to this http://tinyurl.com/2kebm3
I had planned on making this for my nephew by taking flannel and
making a backing for it but my sister says he would rather have it as
is with the edges finished, so he can use it as a wall hanging. Yes,
I know I live in KY and most Kentuckians are die heart Wildcat fans,
but not my nephew, he is crazy on the NC tarheels and has been since
he was in about the 8th grade. Anyway what would be the best way to
put a finishing edge on this fleece. First it is very stretchy, I
have thought of, this is if I knew how but I am sure I can read and
learn to do a rolled hem on it and then I have thought about just
doing a regular hem since he is going to use it as a wall hanging or
we think he will.

I know you are experts at this kind of thing and any suggestions are
appreciated. I do have the pressure foot for a rolled hem, will just
have to learn how to do it.

Thank you in advance and I welcome all suggestions but I do need to
get started cause his birthday is Feb. 23.

I'm sure just using the pinking shears on it would work just fine. That
would certainly be easy. Fleece won't ravel, so you could just cut the
selvedge off and make sure all the edges are straight and square;
pinking wouldn't even be necessary. That's all I did for the piece of
fleece I use for a yoga blanket.

Julia in MN

Jacqueline wrote:
Polly, I have emailed Donna to see if just cutting it with pinking
shears would work. After all he is going to use it for a wall hanging
and surely he will out grow it and I hate to put a lot of work in it
for that. I really found her site quite useful, but when I read it,
well it was about 2 AM and I am not sure I comprehended everything
there. I will read it again this afternoon after I get back from the
doctor. Just hope the snow is not to where I can't get to the doctor.
I am sick of cold, white weather. Although we have not had that much
white at one time, just enough to make roads slick and to look ugly
not even a pretty snow fall this year.

Jacqueline in KY


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Thank you, m'am! I have more fleece ideas, just wasn't smart enough to have
my camera on hand to take pictures of some wonderful fleece blankets a
couple months ago. Every year around Thanksgiving, this lady brings in as
many blankets as her son would be old that year. The first time it was 29 -
now she's up to 32. I don't know the particulars, I've never seen her. She
always drops them off at my chapter assistant's store. But, every year she
comes up with new and different great ways of finishing fleece blankets. We
always have an ooh and aah show and tell of her blankets at the next Blanket
Day after she drops them off.

Several of the blankets she made for the last bunch were two layers of
fleece. She cut the back about 1 - 1 1/2" bigger around than the front
using contrasting colors of fleece. She wavy cut around both the front and
the back. Then she sewed the front to the back using a wavy stitch on her
machine. Those blankets were very attractive! Sometime she will cut
squares of fleece and sew them to the back piece using big rick rack to
cover where she butts the edges up together.

She definitely is creative.
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Donna in Idaho
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"Polly Esther" wrote in message
...
Donna, that's such a terrific site. I've marked it as a favorite so I can
go back and ponder every suggestion. The bunny hem edge is adorable.
For Jacqueline, I'm not too sure about using the rolled hem foot on
fleece. The fleece may be too bulky. Even if that is possible to feed
through, you'd still have to deal with the corners. It would be really
hard to square them and even harder to curve the corners without some
lettuce-edged wobbles. My goodness, I do hate to be a naysayer but please
do go with one of Donna's finishes. Polly

Not Polly, but yes just pinking will work fine. So will just cutting
straight.

Pati, in Phx

Jacqueline wrote:

Polly, I have emailed Donna to see if just cutting it with pinking
shears would work. After all he is going to use it for a wall hanging
and surely he will out grow it and I hate to put a lot of work in it
for that. I really found her site quite useful, but when I read it,
well it was about 2 AM and I am not sure I comprehended everything
there. I will read it again this afternoon after I get back from the
doctor. Just hope the snow is not to where I can't get to the doctor.
I am sick of cold, white weather. Although we have not had that much
white at one time, just enough to make roads slick and to look ugly
not even a pretty snow fall this year.

Jacqueline in KY