How to make mexican blankets

Here is a small how to about making "Mexican Blanket"

Materials you need:
Sizzor
Cleaning tissue for glasses
Scotch tape
Computer
Paint program like Ulead Photo Explorer
Printer

1. Google around for some mexican blanket and downlaod them on your computer.

2. Use your prefered paint program to rework the picture if required.

3. Take a sheet of cleaning tissue for glasses or other tissue. Make your own experiments to find out which tissue works best for you.


4. Cut it down a bit greater than the size that you need.

5. Place the dry cleaning tissue on printer paper and fix it with Scotch tape. Keep in mind that you put the Sctoch tape on those sites where you want to have fringes.


6. Put it into your printer. I use a HP Deskjet 959 C

7. Print the image.

8. Carefully remove the tape from the dried tissue


9. Now it is time to make some cuts for the fringes


10. Thats all


This is the way I do my blankets. Ken Hamilton from USA has a complete other method. http://public.fotki.com/khamilton/models/model_how-to/how_to_make_a_mexic/



Michael

Cool. I was thinking about making some of these but the idea of sticking tissue to the printer paper with sticky tape hadn't occurred to me.

Wow that's cool, thanks Michael

Cool idea, thanks.

Cool idea, one thing I have done in the past is scour the fabric sections of the local craft stores for fabric that can simply be cut to size and looks like one of these blankets.

Cross stich and quilting shops have some really cool stuff.