Thank You Riderwood Second Graders

Thank you to Ms. Scalf and the Riderwood second graders who spent their recess today working on blankets.

Thank You

Thank you Jackie Johnson, Harrison Hughes and Hannah Hughes for donating blankets to The Welcome Project!

How to Make a No-Sew Fleece Blanket

You will need 1 ½ yards of printed fleece and 1 ½ yards of a solid matching fleece to make a larger blanket or you can use 1 yard of each for a baby blanket.


Lay the fabric down, wrong sides together. The right side of your printed fleece will be on the top.

Pin the edges together.

Trim the edges to make the sides even--often times one piece of fleece is larger than the other. Cut off the selvage (finished edge) too.

Cut a 6, 7 or 8 inch square out paper (if you want longer fringe, use an 8 inch square. Place it in one corner of your blanket and cut around it. If you are making a smaller blanket, cut out a 4 inch square.

Do this in all four corners.

I like to tape around my blanket before I cut my fringe. This lets me know how far up to cut. This is particularly helpful when younger kids are making the blankets.

Now you are ready to fringe the blanket. At one inch (or one and a half inch) intervals cut from the outside of the blanket to the tape line. Do this around the entire blanket. The paper is just there so you can see that I was making cuts.

Double knot the fringe pieces all the way around the blanket.

The finished product!

Update on Our Progress

This afternoon Tyler and I went down to the Ronald McDonald House to talk to the head about what we had done so far. As we were pulling up to the house we noticed an ambulance outside, of course this meant nothing good. As we walked in, Mrs. Pagnotti, the head director at the house, told us that a girl had to be rushed to the hospital. Right before they put her in the ambulance, Mrs. Pagnotti ran into her office and grabbed one of our blankets. She quickly wrapped it around the little girl before they put her on the stretcher and took her to the hospital. This is a reminder of what this project is really about.