The Chase Blanket Project

When Kate asked me if I would sew a blanket for Chase because

his blanket was getting worn out, I readily agreed.  Little did I realize

that when I agreed that it would end up being a real project

for Grandma!  Kate asked me for this blanket probably in November

of 2009 and the finished project was done in March 2010...

At first it was going to be a small blanket, not much bigger than

his old blanket, but then I over bought on the material and

so instead of cutting it down I decided to just make it

a bigger blanket...then I decided to put batting in the middle

so it would be warmer (for winter) - but Chase gets it for the summer instead!

Chase would ask me how his blanket was coming along because he had

seen the material in my closet.  At one point I didn't think it was going to

come together at all because I was having trouble getting it smooth and

stretched out for the tieing or is it tying?  not sure :)

Now that it is a finished project, I am just thankful it turned out

as well as it did!  I thought of taking pictures of the blanket and thought of

taking it in/on my father's old trunk

From the pictures it is hard to tell the size of the blanket, but

it fits a twin sized bed.  For the top edge of the blanket, I

found some football buttons and sewed them on the footballs across

the top edge so Chase would know what side was the top of his

new blanket.