February 16, 2009

Baby It's Cold Outside

Back in December during a cold snap I decided I wanted another blanket to curl up with on the couch. Not having a traditional money making job I decided to make one. I started cutting out squares from old pieces of clothing; things that were just too stained or torn to give away.

This is most of what I ended up with. These are all 5x5 inches, there are also a number of 3x3 inch squares. There are also a crazy large amount of black squares. Enough, I think, to make Mr. Gnome a lap blanket. My original plan of a couch blanket has changed to one for the bed. When I started I didn't think I'd have enough for even the couch blanket. The above is for our bed and doesn't even use the brown and white squares pictured in the first picture. I also took out the squares from The Bug's clothes, I'm hoping to make her a blanket of her own some day.

It has taken me around two and a half months to cut all these squares. It will be interesting to see how long it takes me to sew them up.

2 comments:

Meghan said...

WOW! it is amazing how much fabric you can get out of a piece of clothing. looking forward to seeing the final blanket(s)!

Mrs. Gnome said...

It's also a little amazing how much clothing I had. It was around 20-25 squares per Large T Shirt. And 25ish squares per pair of pants. I'm using 520 squares.