Baby Clothes Memory Quilt Tutorial

Sew straight alongside your tape guides.

Baby clothes memory quilt tutorial.

This is an important step in a newborn baby quilt so that the knit or jersey fabric of the baby onesies does not stretch or distort when pieced into the quilt top. Sewing machine a good basic domestic machine is great for making patchwork quilts especially smaller sized ones a rotary cutter acrylic ruler and a self healing mat highly recommended and the method described for cutting. I hope yours goes a lot smoother. 40 x 54 quilt will take about 30 40 articles of clothing.

You can get smaller ones or even use cereal boxes. 36 x 36 quilt will take about 20 30 articles of clothing. This baby clothes quilt gave me a hard time. What you will need rotary cutter with a good blade cutting mat scissors lots of pins and a piece of glass.

It is finally done. Small scissors for snipping threads sewing pins safety pins for. When you can see what you are cutting you won t accidentally slice off the logo of a t shirt or a sweet old patch on grandpa s jeans. Start with clean items.

You don t need a cutting mat this large if you don t already have one. If you are going to make this free squared quilt pattern as a memory quilt and adapt it to 12 blocks absolutely get yourself a 12 square ruler. Pay attention and make sure you re sewing on the correct side of the tape. Planning your baby clothes quilt.

Memory quilt tutorial get those baby clothes out of the box and into your everyday life. Fabric for backing fabric for binding batting material i used the warm company soft bright polyester batting pellon 906f fusible interfacing scissors sewing needle iron iron cleaner to clean off the sticky marks on your iron from fusible interfacing curved basting pins cute appliques buttons. Decide how large of a baby clothes quilt you would like. Once all of the clothing that is going to be used in the baby memory quilt has been roughly cut apart ashley shows how to add interfacing to the wrong side of the fabric.

Apr 10 2020 explore kimberly frances s board baby memory quilt followed by 851 people on pinterest. Besides the baby clothes you can use bibs caps socks halloween costumes blankets linens special curtains and nursery items. See more ideas about memory quilt baby memory quilt baby memories.