How to sew a quilt from old shirts

This light summer blanket lovingly stitched by mom or grandma will love the baby. It is very easy to make even novice seamstress. This will take only a few unwanted cotton shirts.

You will need

• -4 shirts
• -embroidery floss
• -flannel bed sheets
• -sewing machine

Instruction

1. Cut out shirts 36 squares measuring 20 by 20 cm Try to use those places which are best preserved. The solid squares can do embroidery or applique.
2. Sew in strips of 6 squares in a checkerboard pattern. All seams are trying to press in one direction, the joints were tight. Then stitch all strips together. Also zavturove. At each joint squares to make knot of thread floss. Turned the top side of the blanket.
   
3. Cut out flannel sheets square and fold it with the top side of the blanket face inward. Stitch, leaving a small hole. Gut-wrenching, outlive. Attracive the edge of the blanket.
4. If you want to make a blanket for the batting, then sew the sides of the blanket should face out, putting between them a layer of batting. To protegat between squares. To stitch around the edges. Then treat them with bias binding.