This was my year long "T.V." project. It was time consuming but fun to make. It is more of a display quilt.
Yield: 1
Link: Blanket Stitch
Supplies:
- sewing machine
- pins
- scissors
- thread
- fabric scraps
- batting scraps
- crochet thread or yarn
- crochet hook
- large eye needle for crochet thread or yarn
Steps:
- First, using a 5 by 5 inch paper template, pin to fabric scraps and cut out 36 squares for the front and 36 squares for the back. Cut out 36 squares of batting the same size.
Place the two right sides together of each fabric square, add batting square to the bottom. Sew by machine around the perimeter of each square, leaving an opening of 1 1/2 inch on one side for turning. Sew all 36 squares. Turn inside out. Pin opening. Top stitch around the entire square, sewing about 1/4 inch from the edge. Repeat for all 36 squares. - Now, you are ready to make a blanket stitch around each square. See the link at the bottom for instructions.
Using a large eye needle, thread the needle with crochet thread or yarn. Start in the middle on one side of the square, knotting the end of the strand of thread or yarn. Sew a blanket stitch all the way around, making two blanket stitches in the corners. When you have gone around all four sides, make a knot in the thread and cut. Weave the ends into the stitches to hide. 
- For the first row of crochet stitches, make a slip knot in the crochet hook. Starting in the middle of one of the sides, do the following crochet pattern around the perimeter of the square: Chain three in first hole between blanket stitches. Double crochet in same hole. Double crochet in each of the remaining holes doing four double crochet stitches in the corners (two in each of the corner holes). At the end slip stitch into the third chain of the beginning of the row. Chain two. Single crochet two times in first hole. Skip a hole and single crochet two times all the way around. Slip stitch into the top of the chain from the beginning of the row. Make a knot. Cut thread. Weave all loose ends. Repeat for each of the remaining squares.
- Next, arrange the squares as desired. I placed mine six squares across by six squares down. It is time to "weave" them together using a crochet hook. Make a slip stitch onto crochet hook. Starting with two squares and using the hook, weave the thread back and forth between the top of the stitches on one side of one square and the stitches on one side of the second square. Continue in this manner until the end of the side. Knot the thread. Weaves to hide the end. Repeat this process using groups of two squares. Then, connect two squares to two squares, then four squares to four squares and so forth until the entire quilt has been connected.
- To finish the quilt, make a slip knot onto the crochet hook. Starting in the middle of one side, do a single crochet around the perimeter of the quilt to give it a finished look. Knot at the end and weave in the loose ends.
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