Not sure what it is like in your neck of the woods – but here in Colorado it is sunny one day and it snows the next day. That means it is time to make a new wreath to encourage Spring to take over … and to make a new blanket because it is still 27 degrees when we wake up.
Let’s start with the new blanket – I just taught a class for the 30×30 baby blanket with piping around the edge and I thought it was time to make a new blanket for adults. I just got a couple new bolts of cuddle (minky) fabric from Shannon Fabrics – it is called the Denali Collection. I loved the designs and the colors!
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I matched it with an embossed forest green fabric and added a luxe grey piping binding. These blankets are really easy to make – you create your own piping with a two inch strip of fabric – well – to make this blanket you actually need five 2″ x 60″ strips of fabric. Sew the short ends together, place a really long piece of chunky yarn down the center of the strip – fold it in half and use a zipper foot to stitch next to the yarn inside the folded fabric.
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Stitch the piping around the outside edge of one of the pieces of fabric. Place the coordinating piece of fabric on top and sew around the blanket again. Leave a small hole and pull the blanket right side out.
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Stitch the opening closed – and you have a new fun warm blanket – and yes – that is snow outside my windows – so just in time to keep me warm.
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I put together kits for the new blanket – It includes 2 yards of the evergreen embossed cuddle and two yards of the Denali Collection Fabric and 10″ of the Grey Luxe cuddle for the piping. I am also including the pattern that teaches you how to make six different blankets using cuddle fabrics. Click here if you’d like to see the kit on our website.
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And now for the fun part – making wreaths. Once again I went to Hobby Lobby and purchased a pile of flowers and a couple of wreaths. I ended up making three different wreaths and one flower arrangement.
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This first wreath came with all the dark flowers on it – it just looked like it needed to be ‘fuller’ – I added a pink flower between each of the dark ones. Sure makes me think of our home in Vancouver – I just LOVE hydrangeas!
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This second wreath came as a beautiful swag – I just added the three flowers that reminded me of our visit to Hawaii.
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For the last wreath I just added the pink flowers to the beautiful wreath frame that already had small purple-blue flowers. It was easy to wire them into the frame.
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I decided to make a flower arrangement using one bouquet of colorful spring flowers – and one bunch of white flowers. I had taken a flower arranging class in college – and it was fun getting back into the arranging mode – I just put a green floral block into the center of the container that Kira had given me for Easter – after I planted the real bulbs out in our garden – sure hope they survive the snowstorms that are supposed to come again this week.
I found a cool Irish Blessing and Kira turned it into a Print and Ponder for me – You can download and print it for free on our website.
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