I've been super busy making all these blankets!!! It's been quite time consuming... it takes roughly 30-70 minutes per blanket!! I've also received a phone call this week from Zappias that the shirts are officially in the production and printing process so they should be done soon! I figured I would show everybody what I do to make my blankets. 
Step 1: take 2 pieces of fabric, 1.5 yards each and line them up together evenly all around the edges

Step 2: take an index card and put it over each corner. Cut around the edges.

Step 3: cut one inch strips all around the outer edges of the whole blanket. (Sharp scissors necessary)

Step 4: tie all these strips into double knots. WAHLAA all done!

This weekend Jo Ann Fabrics had a sale going on and 3 coupons available for use! So I went back and spent the remainder of the money raised and bought material to make three more blankets. I finished a total of 5 blankets so far and have 6 more to make. I need to figure out another way to raise some more money... right now another bottle drive is my best bet and most realistic given the amount of time I have left to complete this project. The shirts should be finished in about a week!! I'm really excited to see those and show everyone how cute the black patterns are!!! Here are most of them below:

 

Yesterday I turned in all tshirt orders to Zappias. We organized the lists and sent in all the orders to be made. They should be ready in 2 or 3 weeks time!!!! I had about 180 dollars left over from tshirt sales of 600 dollars. I took this money and spent 107 and dollars at JoAnn Fabrics yesterday and bought material to make 5 blankets. I made 1 of them yesterday with some friends and it turned out great!!! I have some money left over to go back and buy more once I finish these 5. I also need to find another way to make money for more blankets since my goal is at least 25-35...maybe another bottle drive?? I'm open for ideas!!!

This week has been crazy...longest week ever!!! My deadline for tshirts was this Friday but unfortunately a big percentage of people that signed up to buy a shirt backed out, forgot their money, or something else came up. I decided I would give everyone one last chance and extended the deadline until Monday so hopefully more will be sold!!! SPREAD THE WORD... So far I've sold 555 dollars worth of shirts!! I filled up about 4 or 5 order forms and would like some more support
!  I get to keep around 100 dollars towards the blankets and I also returned around 350 bottles and got 17 dollars from that towards the blankets! I've also been finding coupons towards the blanket fabric so hopefully I can make quite a few! I spent a lot of time this week organzing things and finalizing orders and collecting all of the bottles and cans! I couldn't do any of this without my friends and family and neighbors! they have been a huge help.

This weekend being Eater, all of my family comes into town. I'm going to try to have most of them buy a tshirt....so far I have about 30 or so shirts sold, but I was really hoping to have at least 50 sold. I'm really looking to my classmates for support and I hope people are asking their friends and family to buy a shirt and support my cause. I only get 3-5 dollars per tshirt towards making blankets so the more i sell the more i can help. I'm starting to collect bottles this weekend as well for money. All money and funds are due April 17th so that I have time to make the blankets and donate them. My sister and closest friends have been a great help so far with spreading the word and carrying order forms around. I'm hoping by next week I meet my goal of 50-75 shirts being sold.