How to make a quilt from old shirts and scraps

Make a Quilt From Old Shirts and Scraps

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Find old clothes or shirts that you can use. When picking fabric remember cotton stretches.

Find old clothes or shirts that you can use. When picking fabric remember cotton stretches.

Next find old scraps like sheets fabric that you used previously for another sewing project.

Next find old scraps like sheets fabric that you used previously for another sewing project.

Once you have picked your fabrics cut them into even squares

Once you have picked your fabrics cut them into even squares

Free the squares are cut out pick a design before you see them into rows

Free the squares are cut out pick a design before you see them into rows

Sew the squares into rows using the seem allowance you planned for.

Sew the squares into rows using the seem allowance you planned for.

Sew each row together into one product

Sew each row together into one product

Then choose the fabric you want to use for the back of the quilt

Then choose the fabric you want to use for the back of the quilt

Once you choose fabric cut the size cotton you need to go in the center

Once you choose fabric cut the size cotton you need to go in the center

Then stitch between the ditch and see your edges

Then stitch between the ditch and see your edges

Then if you choose add bows

Then if you choose add bows

Finally you have your finished quilt to take home

Finally you have your finished quilt to take home

  • Old Shirts
  • Fabric scraps
  • Cotton
  • Bows
  • Needle
  • Thread
  • Sewing machine