Memory Quilt from Baby Clothes Part 4

Just a short update on my memory quilt from baby clothes project.

This weekend I sew 50 crazy squares and cut 20 normal ones. So I have a total of 320 squares, almost 50% of them are crazy squares and a few larger rectangles that I will include in the quilt. I think, this should be more or less enough, if not, I still have lots of baby clothes work with.

Now I'm going to start piecing the squares together.

Previous posts about this project:
Memory Quilt from Baby Clothes, Part 1
Memory Quilt from Baby Clothes, Part 2
Memory Quilt from Baby Clothes, Part 3

Cheers,

  

Memory Quilt from Baby Clothes Part 3

This weekend was also working on my memory quilt from baby clothes.

Opened a new box whit my precious baby clothes, here you can see a part of it after stabilised them with clothing interfacing.

After cutting I had about 100 new squares (no crazy ones this time), and a total of 144 squares. Still need to sew a few crazy ones...

Previous posts about this project:
Memory Quilt from Baby Clothes, Part 1
Memory Quilt from Baby Clothes, Part 2

Cheers,

  

Memory Quilt from Baby Clothes Part 2

This weekend I continued working on my new memory quilt from baby clothes.

I worked on my second set of clothes and cut about 50 more small squares.

While cutting I saved all special patterns from onesies and then started to sew the crazy squares. Together there are more than 40. I have a few longer patterns that I didn't wanted to cut, I will deal with them later.

Cheers,

  

Memory Quilt from Baby Clothes

Yes, I started another memory quilt :) I'm using baby cloths from my daughter and the goal is to create a queen size memory quilt.

We all liked the design of my previous memory quilts (see the pink memory quilt and red memory quilt) so I will do something similar, but this time will use every colour I have. The squares are going to be 10 cm by 10 cm (about 4” by 4”) with a few larger special elements. This type of quilt requires lots of baby cloths, I started with the first batch this weekend. I finished cutting the onesies, shirts, different baby cloths and stabilised them clothing interfacing and ended up with about 50 squares 10 cm by 10 cm and a heap of scraps for my crazy squares. I also have some larger pieces I will decide what to do with them later. It was a very strange feeling the cat those tiny baby clothes, I had to focus on the resulting quilt that will be so precious for all of us.

This is going to be a very long project, I will update you regularly.

Cheers,

  

Mini Memory Quilt in Red

After finishing the memory quilt in red I promised my daughter to make a mini memory quilt for her doll.

This weekend I had some time so I started cutting the squares and prepared the blocks. It is a postage stamp quilt where the squares are 5 cm by 5 cm (~2" by 2") and it was hard to work with them, especially with the crazy ones.

Here are the 2 by 2 blocks with the crazy squares:

All blocks are ready, I just need to sew them together and finish the quilt...

Cheers,

  

Memory Quilt in Red

The last two days I was secretly quilting my memory quilt in red. It is ready! I wasn’t sure that I will be able to finish it before Christmas so I tried to hide it from her.

The back is plain white and the binding is baby plush I had from a previous project. Since I only have a basic sewing machine, I quilted it with straight lines. This is not a fluffy quilt like my previous memory quilt, it is more like a blanket, so it was easier to quilt it.

I hope my daughter will like it!

The last few days frost covered everything, it is so beautiful!

Cheers,

  

Memory Quilt in Red

Well... The other day my daughter asked me to take out the boxes with her old clothes. These days she was continuously asking about the time she was just a baby so I didn't suspected anything. After a couple of hours she came to me with half a dozen of red onesies, shirts, pants, a pair of old stockings, even a hat, and asked me to make a quilt for her sofa. I was really surprised, but how can I say no for such a kind request... Then she reminded me, that her doll also needs a new quilt. From the same red materials she brought to me. So this weekend I started to make a new memory quilt. This time a memory quilt in red.

Here are all the red fabrics for the quilt and a few of the chain pieced squares. Each square is 10 cm by 10 cm (~4 in x 4 in).

I found 3 appliqués I wanted to use, but they were a bit taller than the other squares so I made a wider row with them.

And the quilt top is ready! It was a very windy day so my DH helped me by holding the quilt. As you can see, there are a few crazy squares that I had to add to the quilt...

Cheers,

  

Mini Memory Quilt Part 2

After a few hours of piecing and quilting, my mini memory quilt is ready. I used the leftover of my memory quilt but with smaller squares. The first part of this project can be found here: Mini Memory Quilt Part 1.

Using parts of the same duvet as previously, this small quilt became very soft and fluffy. Using my regular sewing machine I sew some straight lines close to the edges so everything stays together, then finished it up by manual quilting some hearts. The quilt is so thick, that I couldn't do the usual rockning motion of the needle, I had to go up and down and up and down... It was very slow. They are just freehand hearts, and I still need to add some.

Rewatched Jenny’s great video tutorial about binding. I used machine binding for the front side then hand binding for the back of the quilt.

Here you can see my two memory quilts together:

My daughter was very happy with this quilt and started playing with it right away. The background is my Memory quilt.

I still have a few small squares left, one day I will use them. But not today. Probably not this year...

Cheers,
Emese