The Best Ever Bandana Blanket

Pictured above is a layout of six bandanas. These make a great medium for a "throw around" quilt. These blankets are the best for our family. We often refer to them as, The Camp Blanket. Oridginally, they were designed to go around your shoulders and made for sitting around the campfire in the summer, when the nights are chilly in the mountains.

Bandanas are cheap, have all pre-finished edges, and come in a huge variety. Every summer, a new selection of bandanas comes out at our local big box store. The best part: a dollar a piece.

1) Assemble you supplies: 12 bandanas (coordinating colors or your kids favorite combination), batting (crib size), thread

2) Arrange one side of your quilt, as seen in the picture above. With this quilt, I have decided to do "Fire and Ice" Varigated warm colors with a contrast in the middle, and cool colors for the back.

3) Sew together, with right sides together. Note: the natural rolled hem of the bandana is your wrong side. Do the same with the back side of the quilt.

4) On a large surface, lay out one side of the quilt, right side down. The "ice" side of this quilt is down. Then lay out the batting. Trim around the sides so that 1 inch of the bandanas are seen. These are going to be sewn together via topstitching.

5) Lay the top of the quilt on the batting. Place pins around the edges and a few anchoring the batting to the quilt. This will help keep the batting from moving around too much as you sew the edges.

6) Once the edges are complete, topstitch on the borders of each bandana junction. I also made large "X" on each bandana.

As you can see, we love these blankets, each blanket minus the red,black & white, have two designs. This is side one.....

Side two, my 5 year old, rather than hold up his sister blanket for display, decided to take a rest in the warm sun.

The best part about these blankets....They get softer with each wash.
Happy Sewing!