Thanks again!

Here are pictures from Sunday when members of St. Andrews Orthodox Church came and made blankets for The Welcome Project. 

Thanks to everyone that came and helped out!

Thank You!

We would like to thank two church groups that helped us make blankets over the past week. The first was Calvary Fellowship Church from Pennsylvania. The second church was St. Andrews Orthodox Church from Baltimore. With their help we have made over 80 blankets. This raises our total to about 300 blankets so far. Some pictures are up on our Facebook page, more will be posted soon.

A Special Thank You!

Thank you to Christine and Lewis Kimball and their children and friends: Eric Kimball, K.C. Nightingale, Olivia Nightingale, Melanie Kimball, Samantha Kimball, Kay Kimball, Callie Bigelow, and Elissa Pine.  They dropped off 10 blankets for The Welcome Project!

Official Kick-off

Today marked the official kick-off of The Welcome Project. We went down to the Ronald McDonald House to deliver the first batch of blankets.We also made blankets with several of the families that were in the house. We are glad to finally be underway and we are looking forward to moving forward.
Pictures from today will be posted in the next few days.

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!