Fabric for Rag Blankets

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Summary: The right fabric makes a rag blanket authentic; learn how to choose the fabric for a rag blanket in this free video on sewing and making blankets.

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Gretchen Soares Gretchen Soares holds an Associates of Science degree in Home Economics with emphasis in Fashion. She also has a Masters degree in Fashion. She is an ownersh... read more

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by Darcel

Thanks Gretchen for the wonderful video. I have been wanting to make a rag quilt for a long time and your video was lots of help. Can I ask you if you just eyeball the X pattern on each square or do you actually mark the X?

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Fabric for Rag Blankets

Hi. Welcome to Expert Village. I'm Gretchen Soares and today we're going to be making a rag blanket. In this clip we're going to talk about choosing our fabrics that we're going to work with. I like quilts that are in the same family. This one has a clouds theme and it's blue for a little boy obviously, lots of similar colors. The one that we're going to be working on today is going to be all out of pastels and use a little flowers in it so it's going to be a little more girly. Like I said previously, I like to use receiving blankets so we've gone through and picked out a number of these receiving blankets that we have that we're done with and we're going to use those. But you can also use yardage from the fabric store. So here's a piece of yardage that we could incorporate if we chose, and it's just plain flannel yardage and you want to use flannel because that's what gives you the soft look when it washes and it's also what makes it so soft for the child to be up against their skin.