Dress shirt quilt patterns

I love using this pattern from Open Gate Quilts for Dress Shirt Quilts. Dress shirts are often repurposed into quilts for memory quilts, but I personally th...

After so long a time ... I quilted The Shirt Quilt ! As you may recall, this one is made almost completely out of men's dress shirts. (I ...

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Here is a quick tutorial on how to break down a shirt so it can be used in a memory quilt or a recycled clothing quilt. The point of this...

Here is a quick tutorial on how to break down a shirt so it can be used in a memory quilt or a recycled clothing quilt. The point of this tutorial is to show you how to get the maximum amount of fabric out of each garment. It's imperative that you get the most out of each and every piece of clothing you chose to use in a quilt. Here's how... Start with a shirt! This shirt is a medium so I can show you how much fabric you can get from ANY size. Of course an XXL would be best because it has a…

This quilt is a total knock off from one I saw in a magazine. It's made almost entirely of recycled/upcycled material. I cut up shirts...

Coordinate the Colors or go Full On Scrappy! Easy stars made from thrift store shirts produce a wonderfully soft and cozy quilt. This will be a great gift for a man in your life or create one for yourself. Select shirts of various colors for a more scrappy look. Or coordinate the colors for a …

Two more finished memory quilts to go with one I finished a few weeks ago. They are very similar. Only the blocks are different. The quilting and binding are the same. Each quilt contains eighteen shirts. The background fabric is Moda's Bella solid in Porcelain. The large squares are cut 9 1/2 inches. The blocks with the smaller squares have a 3 1/2 inch center square of shirt fabric. A 3 1/2 inch square of background fabric is sewn to each side, then a 3 1/2 inch x 9 1/2 inch rectangle of…

This is my dad. He passed away 2 years ago from ALS ( Lou Gehrig's Disease.) Though he is gone now, this is how I'll always remember him - full of laughter and joy, love for his family and a penchant for button down Oxford shirts in stripes and plaids. It took a long time for my mother to decide what to do my my father's things after he had made the journey to heaven. She wanted to keep a few things that helped spur memories, but also needed to move on. A closet full of Daddy's clothes…