How to Make a Memory Quilt From Baby Clothes

Baby clothes memory quilt hanging on the clothing line.

Baby clothes are so cute, tiny and precious. They bring us a lot of memories. Often I get to the closet, take out a box of baby clothes and look at those unbelievably minor hats, shorts, onesies, bibs… I was wondering – what can I exercise better with those wearing apparel than simply keep them in storage?

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One time browsing on Pinterest, I found a wonderful idea of making a Baby Clothes Memory Quilt! I idea that it is a fantastic mode to emblem your baby'due south cute outfits, and so I started looking for more design ideas.

Most of all I liked a pattern where y'all are using whole pieces of baby clothes equally you can see what they are and how tiny they are too.

I was thinking about this projection for a couple of months – playing in my listen how I would like my quilt to look, trying to make up one's mind which clothes to use, and choosing fabrics that the baby clothes pieces would be appliqués onto. Finally, I was ready to start.

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For this project you will demand:

Baby clothes

Fabrics for quilt squares

Fabric for bankroll
Fabric for bounden
Batting fabric (I used The Warm Company Soft&Bright Polyester Batting )
Pellon 906F Fusible Interfacing
Pair of scissors
Sewing needle
Iron
Atomic number 26 Cleaner (to make clean off the pasty marks on your iron from fusible interfacing)
Curved Basting Pins
Beautiful appliques, buttons and other fun stuff to embellish your quilt. I similar to purchase buttons on the Etsy website. You can discover my favorite button collection HERE .

Instructions:

Commencement, I had to set the clothing – cut out role of the back layer as shown in the pictures, leaving virtually ½" trim to constrict in.

This will prevent from having raw edges when yous do appliqués. Then I ironed interfacing onto each slice.

Do not cutting out the back from such items as hats, bibs, blankies etc. We volition sew them on as whole pieces.

Baby t-short with trimmed back part and ironed fusible interfacing.

ii. I arranged clothes as I was imagining in my mind. But later on my original arrangement was completely changed.

Besides, I had to make up one's mind on which fabric each slice of dress will be sewed on.

After I figured this out, I cut out fabric pieces for each wearing apparel piece. The fabric pieces are about iii"-v" larger on all sides than the wearing apparel pieces.

Then I ironed interfacing onto the backs of each piece and arranged all pieces again.

Piece of fabric with folded corner laying on some wooden surface.

Process shot of making baby quilt - arranging the pieces.

three. Adjacent step – pin so sew on the clothing pieces onto fabric pieces. Do not sew on saved whole pieces (hats, bibs, baby blankie).

Process shot of making baby quilt sewing clothing piece onto the fabric.

iv. Sew together the material pieces together (trim them if necessary). At present you can hand run up the remaining hats, bibs, and blankies onto the quilt.

Likewise, I crocheted and sew on messages for the name. For the letters – I crocheted a chain for each letter of the alphabet and and then fabricated a row of slip stitches in a contrasting color, then I sew on crocheted chain pieces forming the letters.

At the bottom of the quilt, I had extra space to fill in. I made a panel with leftover pieces of babe dress. And so I trim the edges of the quilt every bit they were non directly.

Here is how my quilt looked at that signal:

Top layer of baby quilt laying on the carpet.

5. At present is a fun part! It is time to embellish your baby clothes memory quilt!

I sew on different beautiful crochet appliques – baby stroller, cars, hearts, whales, fish, etc.

The patterns used for crochet appliques can be found in my Etsy store and in Free Patterns section on this website.

Elements of baby clothes quilt close up picture.

vi. Finishing your baby clothes memory quilt.

When the quilt peak was complete, I prepared batting and backing. I cut batting and bankroll pieces to be about 2" larger on all sides than the quilt top.

Then I put three layers together and basted them – yous can utilize curved basting pins or you lot tin can do that by hand.

I basted along the border from all sides about 2" from the edge. Next, I trimmed the batting and bankroll even with the quilt top, prepared a bounden, and sew it to your quilt.

My quilt is well-nigh done!

7. Finally, I've embellished my quilt with cute buttons – I had unlike sizes of colorful buttons, buttons in the shape of cars and animals. They will too concur the quilt layers together.

My baby dress memory quilt is now complete and tin can be cherished for years to come up!

Baby clothes memory quilt hanging on the clothes line, dog sitting in front of it.

Here is i of the virtually precious pieces – a sleepy owl blankie!

My son had to have this owl all the fourth dimension. So I bought 4 of them in example nosotros can't find it, left at the grandparent'due south house, it needed to be washed or something else happened to it.