Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Baby Clothe Memory Quilt

A few years ago one of my daughers' good friend, Mia, asked me to make a quilt for her from her first child's baby clothe. She handed over a large tote with just the cutest ever little boy clothe. It has been sitting in my closet since I finally got the inspiration and started on the journey.
Beginning the project I hung the baby items on my design wall as if they were on a clothe line.
I thought a clothe line with all the little guys hanging down would look good.
I used three fabrics as the background. Blue for the sky, a flowery print for the middle and a green "grass" print for the bottom.
Also see the design wall? Yes a real design wall finally. Maybe that is why this quilt is finally in the making. I put together 2 4'x8' insulation board - covered in a beautiful tie dye blue flannel.


I went through and removed many of the snaps that way while sewing I had less chance running into one of those little land mines and save a few needles from breaking. Easier said than done. Those little snaps are hard to remove without damaging the fabric.

The first little shirt I cut apart and fused didn't hold its shape as I wanted it to, so on the second one I machine based the top and top arms and both sides - THEN I cut off the back and fused it. This worked well. 







All fused down and ready to applique


On another note, I got two quilts entered into the Orange County Fair.



Top completed and ready to quilt.
Charity project ready to quilt.



Modern Quilt Guild Block Lotto ready for Thursday meeting.



Linking Up to Free Motion On The River


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1 comment:

Connie Kresin Campbell said...

How neat! I can't wait to see more of the baby clothes quilt!