Make Your Button-Up Shirts into a Quilt! Perfect Beach Blanket.

Let’s make a quilt from fabric we already have! Here I take button up shirts and make a blanket quilt. This is the perfect beach blanket. Join me for some sewing - quilt making, beachy fun. Don't miss the end when I model the blanket as a scarf!

[ninafurbs]

Starching the fabric makes it much more user friendly.

[ksharpe]

When my Mom passed I made quilts for myself and my siblings from her clothing. I found adding fusible interfacing to the back made it SO much easier. And, the quilts turned out beautiful.

[lindahorton]

I made a memory quilt for a family using their late father’s work shirts. I cut off the sleeves, cuffs, yoke/collars, pockets and button/buttonhole strips. Then I cut 2.5” strips which were different lengths and made an abstract “jelly roll” quilt. I used contrasting color triangles to connect the strips together. The family loved it. I wanted to attach a photo but didn’t know how.

[paulinelarson]

I got alot of oxford weight shirts on 50¢ day at my local thrift store. Choosing for weight of fabric first, then color. Luckily, found a heavy weight flannel sheet for batting and a set of muslin curtains for backing, pieced out with extra shirt pieces. Looks good !

[cathybabnick]

Your beach blanket is lovely! I would be so lucky that the stripes on my blanket are as perfect as yours.

[jobabs]

I use men’s cotton plaid and striped shirts from the thrift stores to make baby quilts for my grand babies. They turn out so soft and have a vintage feel to them. I just finished a pinwheel quilt from 6 different plaids set with white on white background fabric. It’s darling. Thanks for showing how to use men’s shirts and repurposing them.

[rosesbaker]

So cute... Luau shirts would make cute summer blanket or picnic table cloth. Thanks for sharing all the pros and cons. Very informative 👏👏

[eileenhaskins]

I really like how the grey sashing goes with the blocks. I have tons of quilting material that I have bought at thrift stores.Lots of folks buy material and don't get around to using it. I call that a picnic quilt. I even made one with with some raincoat material on the back so if you have a nap or picnic on grass that is a little wet, you stay dry.

[AuntGrace]

Lovely ❤. Nice light weight cover for taking a nap on the porch. 😀

[stitchann]

You might want to machine tack the intersections of the blocks so that the two layers stay together. PS the outside edges are borders. The strips that go between the blocks are referred to as sashing. Great video.

[bernicebarnes]

Well...if this isn't a fantastic idea I don't know what is!! What a great way to use old but good men's shirts up and make them into good quality quilts. I will go the secondhand stores and see what I can find. This is exciting! I will look for bright colours and add to that what I have already here at home. Then we have a collection of buttons, too. Sewing is my favourite pastime.

[karencousins]

I made a memory quilt from my Friends husbands shirts, who had passed away. You can imagine the stress I felt making it. After completing it, I heard using interfacing on the more silky shirts would have made it so much easier. Wished I had known that first. The iron on interfacing would have make cutting the shirts so much easier. None the less the quilt turned out amazing!!

[JessicaSmith-gdfu]

Norah, to this 73 year old who grew up in Georgia, this would be a summer coverlet.

[sharongrieser]

I use THRIFTED shirts for quilts all the time. The fabrics are soft yet durable...

[donnatoland]

You could iron on a fusible interfacing on the back of the fabric to Give it more body, also to spraying it with a little bit of starch and ironing it may have given it some more stiffness, but it turned out pretty!

[Cyrilmc]

Thank you so much I really really enjoyed watching you Crete this stylish and elegant and stunning blanket/quilt. The colours are perfect and they look so fresh too. Please stay safe and well too xxx Mags

[arlenefrancis]

You sew quilts exactly like I do. It is fun to watch. I made a double quilt for my, then, daughter-in-law from her grandma's dresses, which were, by the way, all silks and satins. I tell ya, that was no easy task, but I got the job done. Took me a bit longer than usual, but I got it made. My daughter in law absolutely loved it and made her think of her grandma everytime she used it. I haven't done a quilt like this since my own husband died 12 years ago, and it's got me thinking I should start doing this again. Thank you for brining me back to my happy memories. 🙂

[AnitaSouthall]

Definitely when it comes to designing less is more. Omitting those other two colours made it easier to lay out a pleasing pattern. The border pieces are genius.
I would call it a summer throw quilt. Another great finished item 👌 👏

[julietyra]

I did A Quilt out of Pendelton wool shirts for a client, will is such a dream to work with I did squares and rectangles left some pockets on and other tags and some buttons areas, got first place at the county fair on it

[susanlewis]

So cute! I think when it doesn't have any batting it is called a "summer spread".