The Memory Blanket Story: Part 3

Hello again to all of you following the story of our memory blanket!

For those of you who have only just joined the fun, you can catch up with part 1 here and part 2 here.

When we left you last, the blanket was pinned together and ready to begin the sewing!

Luckily for us, on a lovely sunny Saturday, Mr S offered to take the small people out for the afternoon. Not wanting to miss out on the sunshine, we decided to bring the sewing machine downstairs and onto the kitchen table (the kitchen being the brightest room in the house and also containing the kettle of course!) 

So, with an unnervingly quiet house, sewing begins…..and as you can see, sewing at the kitchen table was a good move, as it gave us plenty of space to spread out. Not sure my little sewing table would have quite done the job here!

When stitching the patchwork, we have to take extra care as the fabrics are so stretchy, if we aren’t careful, they can easily get overstretched and leave tucks and puckers in the patches. To help avoid this find it’s best to pin each piece really well and take it slowly!

So glad we moved downstairs, it’s lovely to get the sun filtering in as we work on the pinning!

Another problem with working on a piece this size is manoeuvering around while sewing, it takes quite a bit of squishing to get it through the hole in the middle of the sewing machine….

And on we sew….

Eventually after a good few hours glued to the sewing machine, one broken needle & numerous pinpricks, we are stitching the final piece. Just in time for tea and the return of Mr S and the small ones, who have had a lovely afternoon in grandmas garden!

Stitching done and kids in bed, its time to get the blanket ironed. It needs a really good steam press to get the fabrics back into shape after any stretching in sewing. Once neatly pressed, we trim the threads along with any frayed edges, and we are done- for tonight!

Now that’s finished, we can see the light at the end of the tunnel! Theres not too much left to do, next we will add the personalisation & a backing fabric, but more on that in part 4 (which will sadly be our last in the series, although we are so looking forward to sharing the final product with you!)…..

Coming soon! xx