Memory Quilt from Baby Clothes - Part 5

Design

Most of my squares are ready, I need a few more that I will make on the go, now let's take a look at the design. I will use 9 patch blocks, mixing the plain and crazy squares. The final size of the quilt should be around 220 cm by 140 cm. One square is 10 cm by 10 cm, I work with 0.5 cm seam, so one finished square is 9 cm by 9 cm. Rounding the numbers my quilt is going to have 24 x 15 = 360 squares, that means 216 cm by 135 cm (roughly 85" by 53") plus the border and binding. This means that I have to create 40 pieces of 9 patch blocks. This will take a while...

Here are all my blocks ready to work with. I ordered them by colour to be able to have all colours spread evenly. What do you think?

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
Memory Quilt from Baby Clothes, Part 4

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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Mini Memory Quilt in Red

Finally ready! I feel like it took meg forever to finish this small but it's ready. I can finally play with it. I mean... My daughter can play with it :)

The full quilt is about 32 x 46 cm (about 12.5 in x 18 in), the side of a small rectangle is 4 cm (~1.5 in), almost the same size as my other mini memory quilt. The difference is that for this one I used a slightly smaller binding, I think it looks better like this. The back of the quilt is made of a piece of a white polar blanket. The binding is the same dark red velvet I used for my red memory quilt.

Now my daughter can play with it...

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Mini Memory Quilt in Red

This weekend I finished the quilt top of my mini memory quilt and quilted it.

It took me less than I expected to put all the 2 by 2 blocks together, but then the quilting part... I felt like it took me forever. After checking the dates of the pictures on my camera I realised that I quilted it in less than an hour with a regular sewing machine. For backing I used a small piece of a white polar blanket. Now I need to do the binding and it's ready!

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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...

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Winter Felt Coasters

After a long holiday break I’m back with some winter felt coasters.

I was playing with some easy quilting blocks and tried some block transformations.

And here are the results.

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