Blanket Scarf DIY

I just love fall. Its my favorite season. I was a huge fan of those blanket scarves you saw coming out last season, but I couldn't justify spending money on a giant piece of flannel, when I could make it myself! So this year I decided to get a jumpstart. After reading many other DIY's, tutorials, and watching a few videos, I came up with this. Hope you enjoy it! 

Materials:

1 1/2 yards of yard dyed flannel (where you can see the pattern on both sides)
Coordinating thread
Scissors or rotary cutter
Sewing machine


Really the sewing part isn't necessary, so if you don't have a machine you can skip that part.











Step 1:

Line up your material and cut so that the edges are straight. This will help a bunch during the fraying process.









Step 2:

Use a needle, pin, or just your fingers and pull some of the threads out. Keep pulling them until your fray is at a desired length. I liked about 1/2"







Step 3 (optional):

Stitch up the non selvedge edge (the ones you had to fray) with a small zig zag stitch. This will keep the material from fraying even more. This step isn't necessary though!







Step 4: Wear it! You can tie the corners together so its a giant triangle, just wrap it, or wear it like a shawl. Completely up to you.

--Katie

Please link back to this post if you post any pictures! Feel free to sell your finished products.

Headwrap DIY

I recently added Headwraps to my Etsy Shop! I am really excited about these, and they are super easy to make! I am going to walk you through it step by step, and I promise to add pictures of the steps soon!

You will need:

2 Yards of your favorite cotton fabric (or 1 yard if you don't mind a seam in the middle)
Scissors
Sewing Machine (I used my serger, but a regular machine will do just fine!)
Iron

1. Cut your fabric to size (see chart below)
2. Fold your fabric in half "hot dog style" (lengthwise) with the right sides together
3. Sew a seam down the long side, stopping in the middle to leave a 1.5" opening un-sewn (you will see why later)
4.  On the ends sew diagonally (see diagram) and trim off excess
5. Now remember that hole you left open? Use that to turn the whole thing inside out. I use a fancy "finger" thing I bought at Home Depot for the job, works great!If not, you can use a saftey pin by pinning it to the end and "pushing" it through inverting the whole thing. This is really hard t describe so I hope that makes sense.
6. Now that you have it right side out go ahead and use a straight stitch to close that hole up! I tuck the ends in so that it looks nice and neat.
7. Iron your head wrap so that its nice and smooth.
8. Tie it on your head and call it a day! Super easy huh?

Let me know what you think, and post links to your creations!