Blanket or pillow? You decide!

This is a great craft if your mom, like mine, spends a lot of her time sitting on hard bleachers, or out in the cold, watching your game.

It is a large fleece blanket that folds into a comfy fleece pillow. You can even add straps out of reinforced fleece for her to use it as a lightweight purse!

This is a VERY easy sewing craft. You only need to know how to measure, and sew three straight lines.

Step 1: Materials

You will need:

If you want to make the blanket with only one color, you will need 2 1/2 yards of fleece
If you want the blanket and pillow part to be out of different fabrics, you will need 2 yards of the blanket fleece and 1/2 yard of the pillow fleece. The two colors can be your team's colors, or you can use a pattern and a solid, as in the picture.

Needle and thread

Scissors

Measuring tape

Comments

[squeeks2u2]

Instead of leaving the edge side open for the pocket, if you leave the opposite side open, when used as a blanket, you can stick your feet in the pocket to keep warm. Of course this would mean that it would be the bottom side as a blanket.

[sokamiwohali]

you could also sew one pocket on the reverse side of the one you would tuck the rest of the blanket in and have a pocket to put your feet in.

[Pretty Girl]

Thanks for using contrasting material!

[peace, love, art]

This is a great project! I love the simplicity!

[santis308]

QUILLOW!!!!! when i was little we had these. i thought the pocket was for my feet until my grandpa told me how to use it

[chhoppy]

 I still use the pillow for my feet :)

[Shesu]

I used to have one of these! (Can't remember where it is now.) We called it a quillow. Sometimes we'd fold out the blanket, stuff the pocket with something like a couple t-shirts, and then use it like a light-weight sleeping bag (but of course it wasn't really a bag). Fun times. :D

[KMOM14]

Fabulous idea! Not only good for sporting events. but would be good to make for young children in daycare or school if they have naptime and storytelling activities

[DebH57]

This is really nice, I will be making lots of christmas presents with this idea. Thank you.

[suek1957]

Love it, keep one in the car for emergencys or sleeping kids...takes up hardly any room.

[NatureBoom21]

This looks great! I must try it.

[Shamora1288]

This is really cool, especially for soccer moms! I'm going to put my little brother's number on one. Thanks!