Fabric Store

[pegkerr]

The fabric store is becoming our new favorite place to hang out on the weekend. Here is a great project that will delight your eight year old girl: Go to a fabric store and let her pick out a pretty, cozy piece of polartec in a print that she likes (Delia chose one in lavender and yellow, showing teddy bears snuggling up to crescent moons). Buy a yard. Ours was on sale, and with the coupon it came to $4.00. Take it home, trim the edges straight. Make a straight cut from the middle of one side up to the exact center. That's it. Now it is a lovely shawl: your neck goes at the gap at the center point, and you drape the two cut sides around yourself. Then, make cuts about a half inch apart and three inches long along the top and the bottom edge. Knot them together, two by two. That's the fringe. It takes a half an hour, it's very easy, and it gives her something that delights her to snuggle up in when we turn the heat down to 62 degrees all winter long. And if I could just find the damn digital camera, I would post a picture for all to see.

Comments

[snippy]

Great idea! My younger son would love one of those; I'll have to take him shopping next time he visits.

[wildflower150.livejournal.com]

Post apic when you take one - I would love to see the final project! It sounds very cool but I am having a hard time wrapping my head around it!

[mkathryn.livejournal.com]

You can make blankets like that too! 1 1/2 yards (2 for adults) of two pieces of fabric. Cut the edges on both and tie them together. Like the shawl, only without a person in the middle. =)

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Yes, Fiona bought some fabric, too, and she's doing exactly that.

[http://users.livejournal.com/anam_cara_/]

Those make the best blankets- I just bought fabric to do just that this weekend!

another fabric use

[(Anonymous)]

I recently read in Parents Magazine another fabric project that your girls may love. Have them pick out fabric with favorite book characters on it (the examples had Spiderman and Clifford, but I'm sure you could fine something more applicable to older children). Make a large tote bag out of it by folding inside-out and stiching the sides together, of course leaving an opening at the top. Use additional fabric for the handles (make sure this is long enough so it can be a shoulder bag), or you could buy a material that's even sturdier.
Then, send the girls to the library and their new "character bag" can be their library tote bag...helping to carry their treasures back and forth.

Re: another fabric use

[(Anonymous)]

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[nmsunbear.livejournal.com]

Gosh, that would delight me too! Sounds wonderful.