Baby Clothes Memory Quilt Tutorial

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.

Baby clothes memory quilt tutorial. What you will need rotary cutter with a good blade cutting mat scissors lots of pins and a piece of glass. Decide how large of a baby clothes quilt you would like. Apr 10 2020 explore kimberly frances s board baby memory quilt followed by 851 people on pinterest. 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.

A little tip as you get closer to the center and theres so much blanket on the inside of your sewing machine arm. Small scissors for snipping threads sewing pins safety pins for. You don t need a cutting mat this large if you don t already have one. See more ideas about memory quilt baby memory quilt baby memories.

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. 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. 36 x 36 quilt will take about 20 30 articles of clothing. This baby clothes quilt gave me a hard time.

Planning your baby clothes quilt. 40 x 54 quilt will take about 30 40 articles of clothing. Hello it s me crazy rebecca dances with pit bulls. 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.

Pay attention and make sure you re sewing on the correct side of the tape. Besides the baby clothes you can use bibs caps socks halloween costumes blankets linens special curtains and nursery items. You can get smaller ones or even use cereal boxes. I hope yours goes a lot smoother.

It is finally done. 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. It can be as small or large as you would like.