Up Cycle This - Sweatshirt!

When I am sewing something "just for fun", I take photos of each step, that way, I can remember how I made it, just in case it turns out and I want to make it again!

My husband was getting rid of some of his old work sweatshirts.  They were still in pretty good shape and I decided to "Up Cycle" one for me!

The rest of the post will be all photos -- Only a few words and no instructions.  As I was making this, I just flopped the shirt on the floor and took a photo of each step. I was not planning to post, but a friend asked me to share. 

If you sew or quilt it should be easy to understand if you view all 43 photos.  

I started with a size 2XL 100% cotton sweatshirt that fit me. Make sure if you make one that the sweatshirt fits you and your really like it, before you start.

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I zig zagged to join the strips.

 Then I topstitched it flat.

2 inch squares

That's it!  I "up cycled" my husband's sweatshirt!

Minutes for Me!

I love sharing!

Take some "Minutes for you" and have some fun!

Enjoy!

Marcia

Feel the Love Blankie

I found tons of U-Tube videos when I Googled "Tag Baby Quilts". I wanted to make my upcycled texture quilt into a tag baby quilt/blankie for Challenge Two of Project Quilting. I had never made a tag baby quilt and I thought it would be fun to make one for this challenge.

I selected a yellow car/motorcycle shammy, (got it from my husband when I was searching in the garage for materials) for one of the materials that would not be intended to be a quilt or clothing.

I selected a dish towel with a red ruffle as the second material that would not be intended to be a quilt or clothing.

I selected an old fishing shirt, a fleece vest with cute little puppies on it, a leftover embroidery stitched tab from the quilted bags that I make and a ribbon from a present. Both of the tags could also qualify as materials not for quilts or clothing, as one was for bags and the other was for wrapping presents. 

For the back of the blankie I cut up an old flannel pillowcase that was from my kids back in the 80's.

I not going to go through how I made it, but I share the photos to show you what I did.  I cut the squares about 8 inches square.
No words just photos.

I only stitched the ribbons on one side.

I named my quilt "Feel the Love Blankie" as I will give this to my grandson.  All four squares represent Grandpapa and Grandmama.  The shammy and the fishing shirt for Grandpapa and the dish towel and the fleece for Grandmama. I also like that there are two dogs on the fleece sending their love too.

I will be traveling to the Netherlands in March.  I will give him lots of love, not just the blankie!

Enjoy!
Marcia