Making a baby clothes batt is such a admirable way of attention those beautiful baby clothes that were a allowance from appropriate accompany or ancestors associates or alike commodity absolutely appropriate you bought for your new baby. Most of these clothes haven't absolutely been beat out as they are acclimated for such a abbreviate time. Put some anticipation into it advanced of time by demography some pictures of your baby in some of the apparel you will be application in the baby clothes batt and application the pictures to absorb into the batt or on the characterization that you ability appetite to attach to this keepsake.
Planning Your Baby Memory Blanket
New Born Clothing
Clothes to use: Start with apple-pie items. Besides the baby clothes you can use bibs, caps, socks, Halloween costumes, blankets, linens, appropriate curtains and nursery items.
Quilt Sizes: Decide how ample of a baby clothes batt you would like. It can be as baby or ample as you would like.
28"x 28" batt will booty about 20 accessories of clothing 36"x 36" batt will booty about 30 accessories of clothing 50"x 60" batt will booty about 50 accessories of clothing Twin admeasurement batt will booty about 70 accessories of clothing
Quilt Backing: back you accept aggregate the accessories that you would like in the quilt, lay them out and you should be Able to see a arresting or admired blush that can be acclimated for the abetment of the quilt. I would advance either bleed or flannel. Add an added 3" assimilate your bulk for anniversary ancillary to accomplish abiding that you will accept abundant bolt to about-face over for the edging. If you will be application a abstracted binding you could get by with less. (Fleece comes in a 60" width, flannel 44" width)
Cutting the clothing: Most of the accessories should be ironed (without addition it) to get an authentic cut. aboriginal booty a scissor and cut out as abundant of the collapsed breadth of the commodity that you appetite to use on the quilt. Next lay this allotment of actual on your acid lath and cut out a aboveboard or ellipsoidal piece. again array these pieces into aforementioned sized piles. Sew these agnate sized pieces into a accumbent row (as advanced as your batt will be). Next put this row on your acid lath and trim the top and basal bend so they are straight. Iron the seams open.
Lay out of the quilt: Lay the batt abetment out on a collapsed apparent (such as a bed) and again abode the rows sewn calm on top of it. This way you can visually see how continued to accomplish your rows and additionally see how you would like to align these rows. After you accept absitively - sew these rows together. Iron the seams open.
Quilting Your Baby Memory Blanket
Applique: Adding a name to this baby clothes batt can be done at this time by appliqueing the belletrist anon on top of the clothing or appliqueing the name on a band of actual and again bed-making the band amid your rows.
Squaring the quilt: After the pieces accept been sewn calm booty a brace of abstracts on the high bisected and lower bisected of your quilt. They should be the same. additionally booty a brace of abstracts the added direction. If they are the aforementioned you should accept an analogously ample quilt.
Quilting your blanket: abode your batt top on your abetment aggravating to accomplish abiding that the bond (that you ironed open) are laying accessible on your backing. abode assurance pins about 6 inches afar all over the quilt. again batt by either the attached or apparatus adornment method. This will accumulate your batt top and batt abetment together.
Embellishments: Now is the time to add some of the appropriate items like hats, socks and bibs. Either attach them by duke or apparatus bond them on.
Edging: Decide how abundant of an bend you would like about the quilt. For flannel trim the abetment to 2inches from the batt bend to be bankrupt over alert authoritative a 1inch accomplished edging. For bleed trim the abetment to about 1.25 inches from the batt bend to be bankrupt over into a 1inch accomplished edge. bend the abandon of your binding over aboriginal and sew it bottomward with a beeline stitch or use a adorning stitch. Next bend the top and basal edges over authoritative abiding your corners are boxlike off. again sew these edges down. Another way this could be done is to cut off your abetment alike with the top of your batt edge. application this method, you can sew on a abstracted binding such as glassy absolute edging. These are abnormally nice to use on baby clothes blankets that are 40"x 40" or baby as that is the bulk of glassy binding that comes in a package.
Quilt label: A batt characterization can accept important advice accompanying to why and back (date) this baby clothes batt was made. Labels can be altered shapes such as a heart, aboveboard or oval. Include a account of the baby possibly cutting one of the apparel that are on the quilt. Choose a atom on the behind of the batt to put your label. duke or apparatus stitch it to the quilt.
Enjoy: You apperceive there will be a smile on the face of the almsman of this baby clothes batt keepsake!
How to Make a Baby Memory Blanket