Leave the Flaw In the Blanket To Let the Soul Out

We made 5 blankets last week on vacation.  Makes me feel kind of like a pioneer woman getting ready for winter.   It started with the girls and I making our dear friend from China, Stephanie, a no-sew polar fleece blanket.  Her favorite color is red and she likes floral.   We put the leopard on the back for fun.  Julz was a great help tying the quilts.  Now it is all ready for Michael to deliver to China next week when he leaves for school. 

When we were looking for material, my friend Diana, who just so happens to work at Mill End Textile, found some cute polar fleece that would be cute for a young college girl.  Jacob wanted to use that for a quilt for his girlfriend, Melanie.  She was coming up to the cabin for a few days too.  He chose pink leopard for the back of this quilt.  I think our family has a thing for animal prints.















Jacob also bought some MN Gopher Fleece for a blanket to take to the Ridley's.

Blankets #4 & #5 were made of cuddle fleece .  Unfortunately, you can't tie cuddle fleece so that means I had to drag out the old Singer sewing machine.  I discovered that the foot pedal was broken so the girls took turns manually depressing the lever so I could sew the right sides together.  Let's just say sewing is not my thing.

I read this quote by Martha Graham that said, "You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out."  This sounds reasonable so I embraced all my flaws in the blankets to give the souls lots of room to escape.

All in all, it was fun making the blankets but glad I am not a full time crafter.  I will stick to photography and photobooks.