Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Chevron Blanket

I've wanted to make a blanket for a while now and well I saw the teal and white chevron pattern and I had to have it I paired it with a grey and white chevron paired it with a grey backing of the really soft material. I also tried to make it as manly as possible since its for my brother who is 18 but to tell the truth he is probably surprised I didn't make him a pink blanket since I tend to pick out everything that is pink. 
- I used two yards of the soft backing 
- two yards of teal chevron
-two yards of grey chevron
***you have to buy four yards of the chevron since the soft material is wider than the chevron 
I took and laid my soft material on the floor first and laid the teal material in the center I measured the left and right side and cut some from the top and bottom of the teal so that my grey would be the same around the whole edge. A very important thing is to make sure you line up the pattern you want your grey and teal to line up. You can see in the picture above that one side is already sewed together and I have the other laying beside it so u can see how I lined it up. 
Make sure to sew both long sides on first then I had to take and see two pieces together to make the top and bottom. Also when u are sewing the two pieces together make sure the match up to both sides and that they meet in the middle when u sew them. 
In the picture above you can see the two pieces sewed together. 
-1 roll of twin size quilting stuffing 
The stuffing will be bigger than your blanket so u will have to trim it to the size of your blanket. I laid the soft, stuffing and chevron then I pinned the seam were the grey and teal meet all the way around. Be careful when sewing all three layers together, the soft grey material will stretch some so if you are like me you will end up with a little extra fabric on one side, I would have fixed it but it was so hard to get the stitch out of the soft material that I didn't bother with it since it was a small mistake. After the inter square is sewed them take and roll the chevron pattern over the soft grey. I trimmed the stuffing all the way around the sides less than a half inch, that way my sewing machine would have an easier time sewing. I left the bottom unsewed so I could have it monogramed with him name. After I got it back I sewed the bottom for the finished product. 

**sorry about calling it soft material I can't think of the name I'm sure it will come to me later. 

Friday, November 1, 2013

Spring Time Cake

Spring Time Cake This is my second cake that I've entered into the National Peanut Festival Cake Decorating contest and both years I've come home with nothing. Granted last years wasn't as great but still I thought for sure this would win something well maybe next year.