You can add bias tape around the edges if you don’t have a serger. Instead of binding the quilt, to keep with the exposed seams used in the dresses, I just used my serger to add color thread all the way around. I made a little template to round out the corners of the quilt:
On the entire quilt was secured I removed the safety pins. This holds the entire quilt together and secures the pieces in place. I used embroidery thread to make little ties at each intersection of squares. If any of the squares look a little wonky or tilted I used a little bit of tugging back and forth to smooth out the entire quilt. By the end, my entire quilt was pin together with all the seams matching from front to back. Then I repeated for the other side of the quilt. I slowly repeated this process for every row in the quilt until I reach the edges. Then I carefully rolled one row of the squares back in place and used safety pins to secure just that row in place by matching up the seams (mostly where each section of 4 squares meet together). I rolled back one side of the quilt top and sprayed enough adhesive to cover the area of one row of quilting squares. Starting at the center of the quilt I carefully lined up the squares and seams to the other side of the quilt and used safety pins to pin it in place. I finally laid the top of the quilt into place on top of the batting. Then I rolled back the other side of the batting and repeated the adhesive spray. Then I carefully rolled the batting back into place making sure to smooth it into place. I rolled back one side of the batting and used a spray adhesive (made especially for quilting and basting) to coat the top of the batting. I used an iron to press the batting completely flat and smooth. I laid one side of the quilt face down on a large table and then laid a large piece of batting on top of it. I used spray starch to make sure they stayed nice and flat. Then I began to sew all the rows together.Īfter both sides of the quilt were completely assembled I ironed all the seams flat again. I laid out all the rows again just to double check my design. 7 squares made up each row.Īfter each row was finished I ironed the seams flat. I began to sew each square together in rows. Then I rechecked my square template and trimmed any wonky edges so that each square was perfect. Instead of interfacing, I used spray starch to coat each square and I ironed out each piece. I then stacked them up in order so I could keep them straight. It’s double sided so we had 7 squares by 7 squares for each side of the quilt. Here’s my big stack of completed squares:īoo helped me to place all the squares in a pattern. I used a rotary cutter to cut out as many squares from each dress as I could:
Most are pretty worn out and had some stains on them….so they couldn’t have been sold or donated.Įach dress has special memories and instead of putting the all into storage I decided to cut them all up and make them into a big quilt that she can enjoy for years to come.įirst I made a square template: 10″ x 10″ Instead of actually t-shirts I took Boo’s dresses from the last few years….all the ones that I’ve made for her.
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It’s sturdy, double sided, and full of memories….it’s upcycled/recycled! I love that each square tells a story! Boo can point to each square and remember a special outfit she had and a memory associated with it! I made my first memory quilt…out of Boo’s old dresses! I’m sure there are many of you out there that are quilting experts, and that there are certain ways of doing things the “quilting” way….but I wanted to take a fresh look at quilting and make it up as I went along.
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