I just bought my first sewing machine in January and have been watching many tutorials on how to make a memory quilt/blanket. Yours is BY FAR the easiest to understand - thank you! My goal is to make each of my three children a memory blanket by end of my maternity leave (in six months time...). I can’t wait to give this project a go, thank you 🙏
A friend has asked me to make a memory blanket from her mothers clothes who has passed away. This is a great step by step tutorial that is easy to follow. I feel I would be able to attempt this now with your great tips and guidance from start to completion, thank you.
I've been putting off doing one of these because I thought it was going to be so difficult!! You have made it look super easy, thank you! I'm so glad I found this vid
I am an experienced quilter, and just been asked to do two little quilts from baby clothes, I chanced on your tutorial , I needed to know the process for stabilizing, but stayed to the end, Fab, you are so clear with your instructions, thank you
I’m a total novice and when my daughter asked if I could make a blanket or quilt with my grandsons first clothes silly me said of course, 😆. Watching you do yours is amazing, I’d never have known about usable interfacing or batting 😳 and honestly I didn’t even know what they were. Seeing you use them I knew I’d need them too. Thank goodness for your video, it now makes me feel confident enough to actually give it a go and know which steps to follow and what comes next in each order. Thank you so much xx
I have more sewing knowledge but I’ve never attempted quilting before. My daughter has lost her 3 week old daughter and can’t part with some of the clothes so asked me to do this. I said, I would look to see if I thought I could then give her an answer. But watching this has put all my doubts to rest, I don’t think it’s that hard. It would be a lot easier with all the fancy tools of course.
@@readingroomcafeproject I’ve managed great and really surprised myself with how well it went. I now have one happy daughter who loves to snuggle with her son close to bedtime with a memory keepsake.
Thank you so much for this. I made my son a memory blanket for Christmas, this is the most important gift I can give him. I went crazy and did a massive one, the size of a single quilt, and it took forever. It's not perfect and there are a few noticible mistakes but I am so happy with it. This was the best video I found, trust me I searched through many. The instructions were so clear and I even bought the same ribbon and a walker foot for my sewing machine. I am so happy that instead of his baby clothes in a bag in a cupboard they are now a beautiful quilt that will last forever. Again, thank you so much xxx
You gave me the confidence to tackle this project! I was so intimidated because I didn’t want to ruin the clothes I saved. I’m looking forward to starting it 😊
I’ve never made a quilt in my life. Haven’t touched a sewing machine in a millennia but thanks for helping in giving me the confidence to embark on this endeavor 😊 I’m probably going to practice and make a few non baby clothes quilts first before I take scissors to my baby’s old clothes and what not 😅
This is the best video I’ve ever seen . I’m and experienced quilter who has struggled to gain all the skills that are so clearly and calmly explained here. I would recommend this video to anyone particularly new quilters. Brilliant.
THANK YOUUUUUU FINALLY AN ACTUAL EASY TUTORIAL!! Omgoodness you made this so much more easier for me. And your explanations were SUPER SIMPLE. not like other “beginner/easy” quilting. I can’t wait to make mine. I’m going to use my husband who past away, his clothes to make quilts. Thank you thank you.
Iv have looked for so many tutorials for making baby quilts/blankets and they are always so over complicated, this has got to be the best tutorial, nice and easy and looks fab!!!
I don’t even have a machine yet but the brand recommended to Me is the one you’ve got , now that being said , this has given me me the confidence to start my process of the project. Just gotta go through all my sons clothes from birth to 3 years old cause this blanket is for me 😂 but I’m excited to start and this video makes it seem really simple! ❤
This was an excellent tutorial. I’m planning on making two baby quilts for my daughter using the clothes of my son who passed away! I know it’s going to surprise my daughter! 💙… this will be my first time making quilts.
This is the best video I have seen. I’m a total novice and your explanation and step by step process was so easy to understand. I can’t wait to make my first quilt.
This is perfect, just what I was looking for, thank you, very clear. May I ask how it stands up to washing with the interfacing, I wondered if you would need something good quality to stop any puckering if the recipient was to chuck it into a hot wash?
You do so well at explaining. Giving so many options and examples. Going over as many scenarios or outcomes that may be. Wow. I’m getting into sewing and I’m definitely following you.
I have followed this tutorial and it is amazing. Easy to follow step by step. The end results of the quilts I have made look brilliant, thank you so much
Awesome video! I'm starting cutting the pieces for not one, but 2 memory blankets. Each kiddo will get one because both will have worn the same clothes as babies. One of those babies is 10 and the other is 5 months! 😂 So excited to be able to start working on this and keep adding to my squares as the littlest grows. Thank you for this video!
I just watched this video and I love how you make it so easy to understand the process and totally possible to realize this project. I'm a Mom who is working up the courage to make this for my daughter and I'm glad this is the very first video I watched to educate myself. Your calm and very clear way of explaining each step makes it enjoyable to watch even though I know making this for the first time isn't easy at all. Thanks again and more power to you!
you are a good teacher keeping it simple. i would have like to seen yoyr mitered corners and have to touch on binding wider side vs narrower side and proper placement of it and have seen your finished binding. thx u
Beautiful job.. Thank you so much, this video is one of the easiest clearest videos I have seen so far.. Beautiful idea to keep baby clothes as a memory. Thank you again, I am a beginner in quilting, I have seen many videos but this one is the best 🎉🎉
Absolutely great tutorial for a beginner like me however would love to see more detail on how to sew the corners - do you sew both edges after doing the corner triangle folder or just sew down the next edge - how do you sew the binded corners to finish the quilt Otherwise thanks 😊 so helpful!
Hi, really great tutorial, thank you. My daughter is 5 years old and I'm finally going through all her clothes to see what to keep for the quilt and what to donate. How many squares did you end up using in your quilt?
Hi. Once you have pulled the binding and clipped the binding to the front of the quilt, how are you sewing the corners? Are you simply just sewing all the way around because the folding was completed on the backside?
Hi there, thanks for the video it's given me great ideas. Please can you advise - among the baby clothes I use - can I possibly include knitted clothing as part of the patchwork? Thanks in advance for the advice.
When you fold over the binding and then fold it back to the straight edge do you restitch over that straight edge before turning and sewing along the next side?
I wish I would have seen this video a year ago! I’m still in the cutting and interfacing stage of my baby quilt, and I chose 4 inch squares. I used the square to cut out the interfacing then put the interfacing on the baby clothes, ironed, and cut. They’re definitely not perfectly square and am wondering if they’re going to be unusable or just a little more difficult to work with since I did it that way? My mindset was, there’s going to be overlapping to sew and I can make sure it’s square then 😬
Hi There,I absolutely admire your video. It's crystal clear what one has to Do. I have started doing a baby quilt..it's not a memory quilt though..my kids are old and I haven't unfortunately saved anything to make it into a quilt. I have couple of questions. I use a Brother sewing machine. It's really good. But do I need a walking foot for sewing thicker layer of batting, quilt and the backing cloth together. I can imagine how thick it gets as we add layers. Also, I have fusible fleecing and I am using polycotton to make the blocks. Will it be ok to fuse the quilt blocks and fusible fleece together using n iron and it does not shrink on washing. Please answer
Hi love ur video… thanks for taking time to explain the process. Could u tell me if there is a special stick or needle that we have to use for the T-Shirt material.
What a fantastic tutorial! So clear and well explained! I keep meaning to turn the bags of baby clothes I have into memory quilts, tgis tutorial is so easy I will get round to it now! One question: Is the interfacing only needed for jersey fabric pieces? Thanks :) x
Thank you! Yes you only need to interface the stretch materials, but if the woven fabrics are thin you could use interface just to give them a similar thickness to the jersey squares, hope that makes sense and good luck!
Could I just use a fleece blanket as a bottom layer instead of the wadding. So 2 layers. One top with clothing squares and one bottom with fleece blanket?
i have a ton of questions. but first let me subscribe! okay, now that i have subscribed and dinged the notification bell, i am hoping you can help me. i'm about to make a quilt using thicker fabric, as matilda jane, mini boden, and hanna andersen. My questions: do i need a different stabilizer? what kind of backing should i use? this will be a queen size blanket. i guess it's a blanket, so i'm not sure exactly how i will do this. but any answers you can give me would be greatly appreciated. i'm more of a diy crafter, but i do have the necessary tools. hope to hear from you soon !
Olive Woo you can use the same lightweight stabiliser, that is just to stop the fabric stretching. As for backing you can use whatever you like best! If you can find anything large enough you can join your fabric for the backing! Hope that helps 😊
Thank you for the lovely tutorial. But could you give a tutorial on how to decide the size of the squares? And could we talk in cm and not in inches? For example. I'm making a 70x100cm baby quilt. How big should I make my squares to make sure I have a 5cm border with the back fabric and enough seam allowance for everything (i.e. the squares and the back fabric)? Thanks!
Hello ! I find your tutorial useful for reusing my baby cloth. One of the detailed video I have seen so far! I will give it a try and share you pic soon 👍🏻Thank you ! You made my day 😊
I used a single layer for the backing, along with the wadding and quilt top of course, making three layers in total for your finish quilt. Hope that makes sense!
Hello I would like to ask if is way like I don’t find anywhere size for my quilt the batting fabric is is way to make it like with you pieces of batting?
I have a question for you... When you are sewing the individual squares together do you have to backstitch? Like when you sew two squares together and not rows?
Thank you so much for your video I’ve almost finished I just need to do the binding. Where did you get your binding as I’m struggling to find a wide one.
By far best tutorial I have seen. I have been following along and I’m half way through my daughters blanket :)
That’s brilliant to hear! :)
Thanks for leaving this comment it's the encouragement I needed to start mine
I'm saving this video for when my 7 week old son has outgrown his first sleepsuits and vests 💖
I just bought my first sewing machine in January and have been watching many tutorials on how to make a memory quilt/blanket. Yours is BY FAR the easiest to understand - thank you! My goal is to make each of my three children a memory blanket by end of my maternity leave (in six months time...). I can’t wait to give this project a go, thank you 🙏
Thank you Chloe, enjoy making them!
A friend has asked me to make a memory blanket from her mothers clothes who has passed away. This is a great step by step tutorial that is easy to follow. I feel I would be able to attempt this now with your great tips and guidance from start to completion, thank you.
I've been putting off doing one of these because I thought it was going to be so difficult!! You have made it look super easy, thank you! I'm so glad I found this vid
I am an experienced quilter, and just been asked to do two little quilts from baby clothes, I chanced on your tutorial , I needed to know the process for stabilizing, but stayed to the end, Fab, you are so clear with your instructions, thank you
I’m a total novice and when my daughter asked if I could make a blanket or quilt with my grandsons first clothes silly me said of course, 😆. Watching you do yours is amazing, I’d never have known about usable interfacing or batting 😳 and honestly I didn’t even know what they were. Seeing you use them I knew I’d need them too. Thank goodness for your video, it now makes me feel confident enough to actually give it a go and know which steps to follow and what comes next in each order. Thank you so much xx
how did it go?
I have more sewing knowledge but I’ve never attempted quilting before. My daughter has lost her 3 week old daughter and can’t part with some of the clothes so asked me to do this. I said, I would look to see if I thought I could then give her an answer. But watching this has put all my doubts to rest, I don’t think it’s that hard. It would be a lot easier with all the fancy tools of course.
@@readingroomcafeproject I’ve managed great and really surprised myself with how well it went. I now have one happy daughter who loves to snuggle with her son close to bedtime with a memory keepsake.
Thank you so much for this. I made my son a memory blanket for Christmas, this is the most important gift I can give him. I went crazy and did a massive one, the size of a single quilt, and it took forever. It's not perfect and there are a few noticible mistakes but I am so happy with it. This was the best video I found, trust me I searched through many. The instructions were so clear and I even bought the same ribbon and a walker foot for my sewing machine. I am so happy that instead of his baby clothes in a bag in a cupboard they are now a beautiful quilt that will last forever. Again, thank you so much xxx
I bet it’s beautiful, well done on completing it! :)
You gave me the confidence to tackle this project! I was so intimidated because I didn’t want to ruin the clothes I saved. I’m looking forward to starting it 😊
I’ve never made a quilt in my life. Haven’t touched a sewing machine in a millennia but thanks for helping in giving me the confidence to embark on this endeavor 😊 I’m probably going to practice and make a few non baby clothes quilts first before I take scissors to my baby’s old clothes and what not 😅
This is the best video I’ve ever seen . I’m and experienced quilter who has struggled to gain all the skills that are so clearly and calmly explained here. I would recommend this video to anyone particularly new quilters. Brilliant.
A lovely clear guide to making a memory quilt. The tip for using the interfacing is such a great tip.
Thanks Sandra!
This was great! Never done a quilted blanket before but now I can’t wait! Your instructions were so clear. Thank you
Thank you so much this is the best tutorial for a baby memory blanket out there Love it
Ann Flynn thanks for watching Ann!
You explain it all so well thank you so much xx
Came her from Rachelle and Justin on RUclips. Rachelle is using your tutorial to make quilts from baby clothes.
THANK YOUUUUUU FINALLY AN ACTUAL EASY TUTORIAL!! Omgoodness you made this so much more easier for me. And your explanations were SUPER SIMPLE. not like other “beginner/easy” quilting. I can’t wait to make mine. I’m going to use my husband who past away, his clothes to make quilts. Thank you thank you.
Thanks April, I hope you made a beautiful quilt with your husbands clothes, what a lovely idea to keep him close to you always. 😊
Iv have looked for so many tutorials for making baby quilts/blankets and they are always so over complicated, this has got to be the best tutorial, nice and easy and looks fab!!!
I don’t even have a machine yet but the brand recommended to
Me is the one you’ve got , now that being said , this has given me me the confidence to start my process of the project. Just gotta go through all my sons clothes from birth to 3 years old cause this blanket is for me 😂 but I’m excited to start and this video makes it seem really simple! ❤
This was an excellent tutorial. I’m planning on making two baby quilts for my daughter using the clothes of my son who passed away! I know it’s going to surprise my daughter! 💙… this will be my first time making quilts.
Thank you I have made my granddaughter a quilt and you were a hugh help.
How beautiful ! I have been wanting to make one of these for my seven-month-old daughter! Thank you!
Brilliant video... Can't wait to start my first baby quilt for my new granddaughter. Super easy to follower. Instructions nice and clear
This is the best video I have seen. I’m a total novice and your explanation and step by step process was so easy to understand. I can’t wait to make my first quilt.
After watching this video you have inspired me. I think I can do this!
Terrific tutorial. You made my grandsons memory quilt possible
This is perfect, just what I was looking for, thank you, very clear. May I ask how it stands up to washing with the interfacing, I wondered if you would need something good quality to stop any puckering if the recipient was to chuck it into a hot wash?
You do so well at explaining. Giving so many options and examples. Going over as many scenarios or outcomes that may be. Wow. I’m getting into sewing and I’m definitely following you.
I like the blanket I will do it, I hope I don’t have any problema great job and good to memorials some special baby clothes
Fab tutorial i am a novice machine sewer but feel i can really have ago at this thank you my niece has give a lot! of baby grows 😳 so no excuse x
Best tutorial i have ever seen. Thank you!
I have followed this tutorial and it is amazing. Easy to follow step by step. The end results of the quilts I have made look brilliant, thank you so much
Really like your tutorials nice and clear explanations, thanks
Awesome video! I'm starting cutting the pieces for not one, but 2 memory blankets. Each kiddo will get one because both will have worn the same clothes as babies. One of those babies is 10 and the other is 5 months! 😂 So excited to be able to start working on this and keep adding to my squares as the littlest grows. Thank you for this video!
Ah brilliant, it will bring back lots of memories as you make it I’m sure!
I just watched this video and I love how you make it so easy to understand the process and totally possible to realize this project. I'm a Mom who is working up the courage to make this for my daughter and I'm glad this is the very first video I watched to educate myself. Your calm and very clear way of explaining each step makes it enjoyable to watch even though I know making this for the first time isn't easy at all. Thanks again and more power to you!
Thanks Nadia, I hope you have had a go and hopefully made a beautiful quilt, if not definitely have a go… it’s easy once you get started! 😊
This is fantastic. I am keeping this video for my son. I will use my favorite onesies from his first year. So excited for the project.
thanks for sharing this. I'll be using this to make a memory quilt for my friend who lost her child.
Thank you and best of luck with the project, I’m sure it will be beautiful and will be treasured forever 💗
Thank you for sharing. One of the best tutorials I’ve seen. Very informative.
this tutorial is the best and so easy to do even for me as a 14 year old and I'm about to finish this nice blanket for my sisters
Very professional video, but most important she gave links to materials
One of the best tutorials ever. So informative and explicit .Can't thank you enough. Can't wait to get started. 😀😀😀😀
you're lovely, so easy to follow and such a sun shiny personality. what a pleasure!
That’s very kind of you to say, thank for watching!
Very clear description, thank you.
Thank you for your time beautiful quilt i will definitely be following your guidance on making this. 💞
Thank you and enjoy making yours!
You made it look so easy! You are amazing! Honestly the best tutorial! Easy to understand for a beginner like myself..
Wow! Beautiful job on the quilt! This was the most understandable video I've come across! Thank you so much!
Thank you for your lovely comment! 😊
Great tutorial. Thank you for sharing.
This was very good, easy too understand and it looks like my next project for my daughter. Thank you.
Thank you. You are a perfect teacher 👩🏫
It looks so beautiful! Thank you for your tips! Xxx very clearly explained xx
Thank you for watching!
Thank you for this great tutorial!
Best video I have ever watched!
Really enjoyed njoyed your tutorial. Thank you. Watching frm South Africa 🇿🇦
Ty for the stabilizer tip! Pretty sure you just saved my big Christmas project!! 🥰
you are a good teacher keeping it simple. i would have like to seen yoyr mitered corners and have to touch on binding wider side vs narrower side and proper placement of it and have seen your finished binding. thx u
Beautiful job.. Thank you so much, this video is one of the easiest clearest videos I have seen so far.. Beautiful idea to keep baby clothes as a memory. Thank you again, I am a beginner in quilting, I have seen many videos but this one is the best 🎉🎉
Belíssimo trabalho em retalhos bravo👏👏👏👏
Absolutely great tutorial for a beginner like me however would love to see more detail on how to sew the corners
- do you sew both edges after doing the corner triangle folder or just sew down the next edge
- how do you sew the binded corners to finish the quilt
Otherwise thanks 😊 so helpful!
Hi, really great tutorial, thank you. My daughter is 5 years old and I'm finally going through all her clothes to see what to keep for the quilt and what to donate. How many squares did you end up using in your quilt?
Massively helpful. Thank you 🙂
You are welcome, thanks for watching! 😊
Hi. Once you have pulled the binding and clipped the binding to the front of the quilt, how are you sewing the corners? Are you simply just sewing all the way around because the folding was completed on the backside?
Hi there, thanks for the video it's given me great ideas. Please can you advise - among the baby clothes I use - can I possibly include knitted clothing as part of the patchwork? Thanks in advance for the advice.
For the backing fabric does it all have to be one piece or could i stitch together a few smaller blankets that i have and then use it as one piece?
When you fold over the binding and then fold it back to the straight edge do you restitch over that straight edge before turning and sewing along the next side?
I wish I would have seen this video a year ago! I’m still in the cutting and interfacing stage of my baby quilt, and I chose 4 inch squares. I used the square to cut out the interfacing then put the interfacing on the baby clothes, ironed, and cut. They’re definitely not perfectly square and am wondering if they’re going to be unusable or just a little more difficult to work with since I did it that way? My mindset was, there’s going to be overlapping to sew and I can make sure it’s square then 😬
Hi, beginner sewer here. This tutorial makes it look like I could do this! Could anyone tell me what thread would be best to use? Thanks x
Hi There,I absolutely admire your video. It's crystal clear what one has to Do. I have started doing a baby quilt..it's not a memory quilt though..my kids are old and I haven't unfortunately saved anything to make it into a quilt.
I have couple of questions. I use a Brother sewing machine. It's really good. But do I need a walking foot for sewing thicker layer of batting, quilt and the backing cloth together. I can imagine how thick it gets as we add layers. Also, I have fusible fleecing and I am using polycotton to make the blocks. Will it be ok to fuse the quilt blocks and fusible fleece together using n iron and it does not shrink on washing. Please answer
Hi love ur video… thanks for taking time to explain the process. Could u tell me if there is a special stick or needle that we have to use for the T-Shirt material.
What a fantastic tutorial! So clear and well explained! I keep meaning to turn the bags of baby clothes I have into memory quilts, tgis tutorial is so easy I will get round to it now! One question: Is the interfacing only needed for jersey fabric pieces? Thanks :) x
Thank you! Yes you only need to interface the stretch materials, but if the woven fabrics are thin you could use interface just to give them a similar thickness to the jersey squares, hope that makes sense and good luck!
Thanks for the great video!
Could I just use a fleece blanket as a bottom layer instead of the wadding. So 2 layers. One top with clothing squares and one bottom with fleece blanket?
Love this! I want to do this, however I don’t have a sewing machine… would it be possible to hand sew this?
Nice
Excellent thank you so much
Gary Fowler thanks for watching! 😊
i have a ton of questions. but first let me subscribe! okay, now that i have subscribed and dinged the notification bell, i am hoping you can help me. i'm about to make a quilt using thicker fabric, as matilda jane, mini boden, and hanna andersen. My questions: do i need a different stabilizer? what kind of backing should i use? this will be a queen size blanket. i guess it's a blanket, so i'm not sure exactly how i will do this. but any answers you can give me would be greatly appreciated. i'm more of a diy crafter, but i do have the necessary tools. hope to hear from you soon !
Olive Woo you can use the same lightweight stabiliser, that is just to stop the fabric stretching. As for backing you can use whatever you like best! If you can find anything large enough you can join your fabric for the backing! Hope that helps 😊
Thank you 🥰
I just need to get a sewing machine I’m going to make one for my girls each😊
Really great tutorial.Thank you so much
You’re welcome! Thanks for watching ☺️
Im getting all the equoiment and trying jt out! Holy moly im so nervous😂
Thank you for the lovely tutorial. But could you give a tutorial on how to decide the size of the squares? And could we talk in cm and not in inches? For example. I'm making a 70x100cm baby quilt. How big should I make my squares to make sure I have a 5cm border with the back fabric and enough seam allowance for everything (i.e. the squares and the back fabric)? Thanks!
Loved the tutorial ❤️
This is a great tutorial .. thank you ... could I ask you to give a tutorial on finishing the corners on the binding please ? Thank you 😊
Hello ! I find your tutorial useful for reusing my baby cloth. One of the detailed video I have seen so far! I will give it a try and share you pic soon 👍🏻Thank you ! You made my day 😊
I also would like to see one for the corners
Lovely tutorial, but how do you finish the corners ??
Beautiful quilt! Did you cut the bedding set so it is 1 layer or keep it whole? Thank you
I used a single layer for the backing, along with the wadding and quilt top of course, making three layers in total for your finish quilt. Hope that makes sense!
Love it!
Hello I would like to ask if is way like I don’t find anywhere size for my quilt the batting fabric is is way to make it like with you pieces of batting?
I have a question for you... When you are sewing the individual squares together do you have to backstitch? Like when you sew two squares together and not rows?
Thank you so much for your video I’ve almost finished I just need to do the binding. Where did you get your binding as I’m struggling to find a wide one.
I got mine from amazon, but any good haberdashers should stock it. Thanks 😃
Would have been nice to see how you did your corners on the binding
Could you post pictures of how ypu folded corners when folding over to the front? I couldn't quit figure out the last corner
Do you have a list of all the things required to make this please. Great video!
Did you press your binding in half before sewing or did it come folded like that?
Amazing. Would this blanket be able to be made with a minky dimple back at all? Do you think? Thanks
Would it be okay to use fleece instead as the backing?
What happens if I don't add the black thing on the back of baby clothes? Will the blanket shrink or get ugly?
Fabric will be too stretchy and loose if you don't use it.
Can you make a tutorial how to use the sewing machine!😭 I’m completely new at this I’m trying to make a quilt for my daughter’s first birthday!
Im making 1 for my gr grandaughter and will be using jelly roll for the 2" sepsrators between squares. wish me luck
Very clear
Im in uk plz guide me anyone from where can i buy the stuff to make quilt from baby’s clothes like the material in between
This was a brilliant tutorial thank you, Just 2 questions, How thick was your batting and what width ribbon did you use for the edge please, :)