need suggestions

If you want quite a few different ideas for finishing fleece - check out my Project Linus chapter website -

Got a question for you will reply in email.

Thank you so much for the suggestions.

Jacqueline in KY

Donna, that's such a terrific site. I've marked it as a favorite so I can go back and ponder every suggestion. The bunny hem edge is adorable. For Jacqueline, I'm not too sure about using the rolled hem foot on fleece. The fleece may be too bulky. Even if that is possible to feed through, you'd still have to deal with the corners. It would be really hard to square them and even harder to curve the corners without some lettuce-edged wobbles. My goodness, I do hate to be a naysayer but please do go with one of Donna's finishes. Polly

"Donna in Idaho" wrote> If you want quite a few different ideas for finishing fleece - check out my

I'd try machine basting the edge to hold it from stretching, and then apply a regular cotton binding to the ege with a walking foot. Musicmaker

Polly, I have emailed Donna to see if just cutting it with pinking shears would work. After all he is going to use it for a wall hanging and surely he will out grow it and I hate to put a lot of work in it for that. I really found her site quite useful, but when I read it, well it was about 2 AM and I am not sure I comprehended everything there. I will read it again this afternoon after I get back from the doctor. Just hope the snow is not to where I can't get to the doctor. I am sick of cold, white weather. Although we have not had that much white at one time, just enough to make roads slick and to look ugly not even a pretty snow fall this year.

Jacqueline in KY

I'm sure just using the pinking shears on it would work just fine. That would certainly be easy. Fleece won't ravel, so you could just cut the selvedge off and make sure all the edges are straight and square; pinking wouldn't even be necessary. That's all I did for the piece of fleece I use for a yoga blanket.

Julia > Polly, I have emailed Donna to see if just cutting it with pinking

I didn't answer your question about rolled hem when I answered your private email. I don't think a rolled hem would work at all on polar fleece. You would have way too much thickness.

Thank you, m'am! I have more fleece ideas, just wasn't smart enough to have my camera on hand to take pictures of some wonderful fleece blankets a couple months ago. Every year around Thanksgiving, this lady brings in as many blankets as her son would be old that year. The first time it was 29 - now she's up to 32. I don't know the particulars, I've never seen her. She always drops them off at my chapter assistant's store. But, every year she comes up with new and different great ways of finishing fleece blankets. We always have an ooh and aah show and tell of her blankets at the next Blanket Day after she drops them off.

Several of the blankets she made for the last bunch were two layers of fleece. She cut the back about 1 - 1 1/2" bigger around than the front using contrasting colors of fleece. She wavy cut around both the front and the back. Then she sewed the front to the back using a wavy stitch on her machine. Those blankets were very attractive! Sometime she will cut squares of fleece and sew them to the back piece using big rick rack to cover where she butts the edges up together.

She definitely is creative.

Jaquiline, do not try to do a rolled edge on this kind of fleece. Especially with one of the machine attachments/feet. It won't work worth a darn. I have done a lot of these blankets, and you don't even need to do much besides trim the edges. If you want you can stitch around the edge, perhaps turn a bit under and stitch, but that is all. If you had a serger you could use that to finish the edges, but often scarves and such are just trimmed, sometimes with a scallop or pinked shears/rotary blade, and go. You can also cut fringe on the ends if you really want to. I have done hand blanket stitch with perle cotton around the edges of some, and some I have used as is. The stuff won't ravel or fray or run.

Pati, > I bought this fleece fabric, similar to this

Not Polly, but yes just pinking will work fine. So will just cutting straight.

Pati, > Polly, I have emailed Donna to see if just cutting it with pinking

I'm a bit late responding, but my favorite method for finishing fleece blankets is the ready-made satin binding. Trim the edges up straight, like everyone else has said, slide the binding on, pin in place, mitering corners as you go, and use a nice decorative stitch all around. Wa-lah! Finished.

Thanks to those that replied both privately and on the group. I have lots of ideas now, but I think I am going to just use pinking shears, do they happen to make a rotary blade that does the pinking cut?

Jacquel>I'm a bit late responding, but my favorite method for finishing fleece

Yes, they make a pinking blade for your rotary cutter. Take care Joanna

Jacquel> Thanks to those that replied both privately and on the group. I have