Crafty - Mermaid Blanket

Well hello there book lovers!

Did you know that your life is incomplete? Why you ask, because you don't have a mermaid blanket.

I hope that you have been liking the blog and have been reading some of the books. As I have told you before I have a big pinterest problem, and I love to sew too. So naturally when I saw crocheted and knitted mermaid blankets I was all about it. Search online, search pinterest, you will see them too and they are so cute. I do try my hand at crocheting and knitting now and then. But I am NOT fast, and I am NOT very good. We all have our strengths. So I decided to sew one instead. Now I couldn't find any patterns or tutorials online that I liked so I did make this one all by myself. But it was based on ones I saw on pinterest. You too can make one of these. They are just too amazing!

You will need fabric, 1/4 inch foam, matching thread, and your standard sewing supplies. I had to make a pattern for the tail, now I am not good at drawing anything. I just can't seem to make any sense of it. My husband however, he is amazing! If you will let me brag, one of his drawings was selected by a local museum to be on display. I know! He is so talented. I had him draw half of a mermaid tail based on my vague descriptions on what I felt would be an ideal mermaid tail. This is what he came up with for me. 

Isn't it so cute? I placed the straight edge of the tail pattern on the fold line of the fabric and cut 1 side, and then cut another tail out for the back. So you would have a front and back of the tail. I sewed all around the edge leaving it open at the top and then turned it inside out. I cut out the tail shape in the foam, and put the foam inside the mermaid tail. I used "minky" fabric for the tail and then a nice soft fuzzy material for the blanket part. I found it with the "minky" in the fabric store.

There the tail is with the foam in it. Below is what the tail looks like all ready for the blanket part to be attached. I put the tail aside and got the blanket part ready. I am going to take this moment to say that in the end I thought of some better ways to assemble this blanket and probably would do it differently. But this is what I did this time around and it worked just fine.

I laid down on the fabric and had my very helpful husband cut out around me to get the right shape. Then I surged around the edges. If I make a normal seam all the way around I thought it was going to be too thick. So I just surged the raw edges and then folded them over to make a 1 inch seam around the sides and the top. 

Once the edges and seams were done I looped the blanket around so the seam was at the back. I sewed about 8 inches at the bottom to tuck my feet into. Then I placed the bottom of the blanket into the top of the tail. Made a seam, and sewed it together. I did a lot of back stitching to make sure that it all stayed together.

Here is is all done and me snuggling and watching some Netflix. I hope that you all get crafty too and make your very own mermaid blanket.

Once again. I found these ideas on pinterest, I just made them based on what I saw. If you do some searching too, you will find some amazing ideas out there. Make yourself a mermaid blanket and your life will be complete too!

Love
Elyse