How to make a memory quilt

Learn how to make a simple memory quilt from recycled garments in this series, from preparing garments for quilting to creating a simple block.

How to Make a Memory Quilt. Get tips, tricks, ideas, and tutorials for making Memeory Quilts for your friends and family.

Hey, Everyone! Today, I'm here to share the supplies and the steps that I took to create a memory quilt made with t-shirts. Find the video tutorial here:A little backstory here...a potential customer reached out to me after her father passed away and wanted to create quilts out of all of his shirts. She sent me home with two big totes full of various shirts with the hopes of creating a quilt for her mom, daughter, sister, and herself. Her mother chose this pattern for herself. I was so…

Have you ever thought about making a memory quilt from your child's baby clothes? We'll show how we stopped putting it off and got our memory quilts made!

Two more finished memory quilts to go with one I finished a few weeks ago. They are very similar. Only the blocks are different. The quilting and binding are the same. Each quilt contains eighteen shirts. The background fabric is Moda's Bella solid in Porcelain. The large squares are cut 9 1/2 inches. The blocks with the smaller squares have a 3 1/2 inch center square of shirt fabric. A 3 1/2 inch square of background fabric is sewn to each side, then a 3 1/2 inch x 9 1/2 inch rectangle of…

Yesterday, I shared a "How to Photo Tutorial" on making a Quilted Memory Pillow without a collar. Today, I am sharing how I made my Quilted Memory Pillow with a Collar. I said this yesterday: When

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I was asked to make this Quilt below. I was thrilled with how it turned out. I will say tho...working with jersey is hard. I cut out the back of the clothes and put pellon on the back with the raw edges turned under. The jersey still stretched. It was maddening. Another issue I had was I like things organized and neat. I put this quilt together several times (not sewn but different formats on the floor). They all seemed so messy to me. Finally I just went to work. I felt that it would come…

A loved one's passing is never easy. But you can make a keepsake Memory Pillow from a shirt of theirs. Here's how I made one in two hours.

How to make a t-shirt memory quilt!