Yakima blanket

[Forty Rod]

(Don't know just where to put this.)

I recently got a Pendleton Yakima blanket... red with black stripes on the ends... that my dad bought when he worked for the Forest Service in Oregon about 1936.  He used in a huge old kapok filled "tin" canvas sleeping bag.

It's in pretty good shape except one end needs to be sewn up to prevent it unravelling any further.  I'd like to salvage this and use it inside the house as an heirloom.  Keep it foldes on the back of a chair or sofa sort of thing.

The good end has a double thread black triangular selvage stitch that I can't figure out.

Can anyone tell me how to duplicate this stitch and maybe provide sketches, too.

Thanks.

[Old Top]

Forty,

If you have a sewing machine that sews zig zag (no not the papers ;D0 you may be able to duplicate the pattern by widening and leangthing the stich pattern.

Old Top

[Forty Rod]

A sewing machine?  What's that?

I think Mom had one, but we don't even have many needles in the house, though thread of many kinds and colors are abundant.

Gonna have to be one of those manual labor things.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Maybe hem tape or type of ribbon sewed across it?

[Professor Marvel]

Greetings My Dear Forty -

I had to go out nd magnify the blankets on the pendleton website to make certain, but
the object of your desire is called a Blanket Stitch or Whip stitch - see here on the wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanket_stitch

here is an "old farts" static tutorial, with still pictures and words! (my favorite)
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Sew./step7/Decorative-stitches/

and here is the lazy, illiterate, comic-book person's u-toob

( can you guess I am also excessively  irritated by the day job's idea of traiining which is some foreigner reading a slide show at me on a web page....)

I use the whip stich  regularly on any trade wool project to keep the edges from ravelling.

I am surprised that Del did not chime in before me, but he must be overwhelmed....

yhs
prof marvel

[Forty Rod]

Looks like I need the traditional stich.

I talked to Del day before yesterday and it never occurred to me to ask him about this.

Getting old is a bitch, but when your 'keeper' joins you in Senile City it can get very interesting, indeed.

Thanks.