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.

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. I hope yours goes a lot smoother. It is finally done. 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.

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. Sew straight alongside your tape guides. Apr 10 2020 explore kimberly frances s board baby memory quilt followed by 851 people on pinterest. A little tip as you get closer to the center and theres so much blanket on the inside of your sewing machine arm.

Planning your baby clothes quilt. Hello it s me crazy rebecca dances with pit bulls. Small scissors for snipping threads sewing pins safety pins for. Decide how large of a baby clothes quilt you would like.

You don t need a cutting mat this large if you don t already have one. This baby clothes quilt gave me a hard time. You can get smaller ones or even use cereal boxes. Memory quilt tutorial get those baby clothes out of the box and into your everyday life.

40 x 54 quilt will take about 30 40 articles of clothing. 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. What you will need rotary cutter with a good blade cutting mat scissors lots of pins and a piece of glass.

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. 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. Start with clean items.