Gauze pom pom trim baby blanket

Here is another blanket! This one i made from Gauze because having a summer baby you want a light weight fabric for the baby and to swaddle them in. Why not add a cut pom pom trim to make the gauze blankets way cuiter! So here it foes i hope this make sense to all of you. Once again i did use my serger for the finished edged but you can do anything you want to finish the end of the blanket.

I did my blankets so they are 42x42 

This blog does a great job on showing you how to finish the edge of your blanket if you only have a swing machine. http://www.chelseablogs.com/2012/05/muslingauze-swaddle-blanket-tutorial.html

Once you have the ends all finished the way you want then you add the pom pom trim. 

I bough my trim from Hobby lobby I needed 2 of them for 1 blanket.

then just start in the middle of one of your edged don't start on a corner its just to hard to over lap at the end. I out the trim right agents the edge of my fabric you can see in the pictures on the back as well. Then just sew along the whole edge of the blanket.

I hope you can under stand why i am trying to explain. I am not the best at that :) 

Pom Pom Blanket

There are going to be lots of projects and craft in the Weekley house until this baby gets here. Latest is blankets for our baby girl. They are SOOO easy to make you guys! Making the pom poms is what takes the longest. So for this project i actually use a surgery. Can i just say how obsessed surging!!! It really is the best. But every blanket i do and make can be made with a swine machine as well. I was just going for a different look wanted to see the tread and the finished edge look of thread that the surgery offers and a sewing machine does not.

I am going to show you 2 different blankets with the same plan. One blankets is made out of Jersey fabric that is the gray one. The black and white striped one is made of Knit. I made mine for crib size. So it is longer then the width. So it is 45x35.

Cut your fabric to what ever size you want. Then decide how you want to finish the edge of your blanket off. You can see in pictures below i just simply ran mine threw my serger. Like i said if you don't have a serger you can do the simple quilt binding or just fold and stick edge for a finished edge.
Diy

Once you have finished the ending on your blanket you will start on the pom poms. I actually followed this tutorial http://www.handimania.com/diy/2-incredible-ways-to-make-yarn-pom-poms.html. Supper easy to make them. On my gray fabric I used the fork. Then on my striped fabric i used something that was double the size of a fork.

I made 8 Fork size pom poms for my gray blanket. Then i did 10 pom poms with the larger size for the striped blanket. When you tie the pom poms though keep the stings that you tie in the middle long don't trim those off! You will use that to attach to blanket.

One you have it threaded all you do is decided where you want you pom poms to hang. I did one in each corner then the center along the edge of each side. I tied the knot about 4-5 times to make sure it was tight.

 once done then cut off the remaining yard strands. Then do the same for all the pom pom you want. then your done! Hope this helps some of you!

Make sure if you wash these blanket they are washed as a delicate even the best is to use a garment bag so nothing gets snagged while in your washing machine.

Dinning Table

This is a dinning table Adam also made for us. It is made out of Hickory flooring on the top and then Adam welded the legs our of metal. We ended up doing one side as a bench and then 3 chairs on the other side, we used the acrylic chairs from Ikea.

Wood Wall

This is the Wood wall we did in our family room. It is actually made of raw maple flooring. We got a who bundle on ksl for $85 we still has some left over as well. So the total cost for the wall was $85. The total project took us about 3 1/2 hours to get it all up. They just fit together like flooring that is the tongue and groove then we nailed it right to the wall. First thing we did was Drew lines on the wall where the stud for the whole wall were so we knew the best place to nail the wood to make it secure. We were going to stain it after it was up but ended up loving it just raw so have not done anything to it.  

Planter Boxes

So We are still working on our back yard, but...... we finally got our planter boxes done for the front yard! We have such a slope in our front yard we could not do just curbing or rocks because all the wood chips would just fly everywhere in the grass. As you can see in the Pictures of the before. We did Treated timbers again. (Notice a theme for our yard.. we like the treated timbers) So we got the 2x8 treated timbers for our planter boxes and we did each box 6 feet deep and about 5 feet long in each box. For all the wood we spent about $200. Then spent about $200 on top soil and new plants. So total our project cost us $400. It makes a huge difference in the front yard though.