Home Care Activities: Fast and Simple Knotted Fleece Blanket for Thoughtful Home Décor or Gifts

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Encouraging your loved one to do crafts in her own, with you, or with her home care provider is a fantastic way to encourage her creativity and personal expression, stimulate her mind, and even exercise parts of her body for more strength, flexibility, and range of motion in her joints. This is also an opportunity for her to make gifts for the people who she loves, making her feel more in control and giving her the emotional boost of knowing that she is accomplishing something meaningful that someone she cares about will truly enjoy.

This craft is ideal for your parent to make for her own home or as a gift for a holiday or for the birth of a new baby. Far simpler and faster than traditional quilting and other blanket-making techniques, making knotted fleece blankets allows your parent to express herself through her selection of fabrics, works her hand muscles and joints, and even strengthens her memory, cognitive processing, and critical thinking skills as she works through the project. While this version makes a large blanket idea for an adult to use as a lap blanket or an older child to use as a full-size blanket, your senior can use the same technique to make smaller versions for younger children and babies.

What You Will Need

• 2 yards of plain color fleece
• 4 inches of a square template
• Sharp sewing scissors or a rotary cutter. Be sure that whatever blade you are using is very sharp as a dull blade will catch on the fleece and create uneven cuts
• 2 yards of patterned fleece
• A wide and long, clean surface to work on
• A lint brush or roller

What to Do

• Lay out the patterned fleece and smooth out
• Lay out the solid color fleece on top of the patterned one
• Line up the edges as best as possible and smooth out the wrinkles as much as possible
• Avoid pulling too much considering fleece has a bit of stretch
• Trim the edges of the fleece off and keep aside
• Using the square template, place it on one of the four corners
• Carefully cut around the template to cut the square off both fleeces
• Repeat this process on all three of the other corners
• Start cutting a four inch strip along the edge
• Continue this in 1 and 1/4 inch intervals all the way down the edge
• Fold the strips up so they are resting on top of the solid color fleece
• Carefully cut a small slit in the fold
• Turn the strip down and pull through the hole of one of the strips
• Gently tug at the strip to make it taut
• Tie a small knot in the strip so that it won’t easily go back through the hole, as close to the hole as possible
• Continue doing this down the row on each of the strips
• Repeat this process on all four sides of the blanket until finished

If you or an aging loved one are considering hiring professional home care in Southampton, NY, call the caring staff at Artful Home Care today at 631-685-5001.