[Nfb-krafters-korner] Making A Weighted Blanket

[Zimmer, Cindy]

Daniella,
This is the right place.  

All the weighted blankets that I have read about that are crochet or knitted use heavier yarn to weigh them down.  Maybe someone else has a better idea.  I guess you could always add large beads to your knitting to add weight.  

I'm wondering if you could make a double sided panel using close pegs and filling that panel with beads.  Then you would have to add the filled panels into your overall blanket.  Like a knitted panel that is 12" wide, next to a filled weighted panel that is 4" wide.  Repeat that going across the blanket.

I'm interested to see what others think.

Cindy Z.



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Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Making A Weighted Blanket

Hello all,
I have just started subscribing to this list, so I am not sure how this works. If this is not the right place for my question, sorry about that.
                I have just started looming, and so far I really like it. I wanted to make a weighted blanket, but the only things I can find on the internet are things you need to sew, and I don’t know how to do that. Does anyone know if I could loom tight enough stitches so that stuff wouldn’t fall out of it? I am thinking of using glass gems that you can buy from like Walmart, or the dollar store, or Polly Pellets like the internet suggests, if they are not too expensive. Does anyone know what else I could use as well?
                Thank you all for your help!

Daniella
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