No Sew Tie Blanket

Now, I've always seen these awesome looking tie blankets, but never actually made one. After finding out just how easy they are to make, I wish I would've made some a long time ago. I saw some NFL fleece at Joanns on sale and thought it would be a great idea to make one for my boyfriend. He has a king size bed, might I add, so making a blanket to fit, wasn't easy, but I was up for the challenge because I knew it was something that he would enjoy and could actually use.

Here is the site I used for my guidelines of making this blanket. http://www.ehow.com/how_4811095_king-sized-fleece-blanket.html It has more detailed instructions. I'm just giving you some extra tips on the way I made mine, here.

Before you begin, keep in mind that this is for a king size bed so if you need to make it smaller, you will need to look up the measurements for the specified size bed. It is very time consuming though, so make sure you have a good amount of free time. Pick out what fabrics you want to use. You need 8 yards of the 60 in wide fleece, 4 yards per side. Mine was double sided and I made it checkered, so I ended up with 4 different patterns, 2 yards of each: Seahawks print, grey, lime green and navy blue. You can make them all match or do two that go together on one side and two that go together on the other side. I thought about doing that with one side representing the Seahawks for him and the other side representing the Cowboys for me. I then got some posterboard and cut out a 12"x12" square to use as a pattern and traced and cut 128 squares, 32 of each fabric. The blanket was 8 squares x 8 squares. Once the squares are cut, you need to cut 2" x 1"w slits along all 4 sides of each square as well as cut a 4" x 4" square from each of the four corners. This does take a lot of time to do so pace yourself. I was getting cramps in my thumb from cutting so much. Once everything is cut and ready to be assembled, it's smooth sailing the rest of the way. You'll need a good size open area for assembly. Place the squares in the pattern you want them so you know which ones get tied together and start tying. I did a double not on each one to make sure that they would stay together. Once you have one side done, work on the other side. When both pieces are done, you can tie them together by matching up the squares. I didn't do it with this one, but if you are making this somewhere where it gets pretty cold or if you're going to use it as a comfortable on a bed, you can add some stuffing in between the layers for more warmth.


This blanket can be washed. I know he's washed it quite a few times and it hasn't started to come apart or anything.