A {Memory} Quilt for a Little Girl

With my sisters passing {previous post} I REALLY struggled {explains my absence . . . sorry guys!}, and with everything that was in me a lot of the pain I was {and still am} feeling was directed toward this sweet girl and the fact that she's just SO young that she will most likely forget things about her mom. I immediately made it a goal to do my part in helping her remember . . . so I made her this quilt out of Charish's shirts and nightgown. 

This was the night that I gave it to her. She just laid down and stared at the pictures of her mom . . . so sweet and heart wrenching at the same time.

This rocking chair was from my grandma. She gave it to my mom when Charish was a little girl . . . about Chloe's age, so I thought it would be cool to take a picture of her memory blanket on the chair she used to sit in as a toddler.

The back, binding and border are all fabrics that I bought to hold the shape a little better. Chloe just let me know that it's her "favorite blanket" . . . totally made my day.

One of my favorite pictures of Chloe and Charish swimming last summer.

Memory Quilt {lesson learned}

Alright, today I did the second block for my memory quilt, but it didn't go as smoothly as the first. The difference; I used clothes with different types of fabrics. I knew that if I was sewing a knit fabric that I would need to use fusible interfacing, but the cotton ... or less stretchy ... stuff didn't need it ... or so I thought! I'm thinking that if I use the fusible interfacing on all types of fabric then it will work out a little better. That way there wont but such a difference in thickness. We'll see ... I'll let you know how it goes!!

So ... here they are. The first two blocks in my tedious {but fun} project. I wont have these two next to each other because every other block will have white for the outside border.

Memory Quilt {sneak peek}

Okay, well I finally started sewing together my memory quilt {and let me tell you ... this is a PROJECT! If the fabric is knit ... t-shirt material ... then I have to use fusible interfacing so they wont stretch too much.}. I'm excited how the first block turned out ... I'm only hoping I can pull this off!

I really have been struggling letting go of all of my girls' baby clothes ... kind of sad for me since we wont have any more kids. So I decided to keep them and cut them up for a quilt.

I took a "before" picture of most of the clothes I'm using.

Here is my first square. I'm going to do each block like this, only on every other block the outside border is going to be white. I'm going to try to coordinate each square, but as far as all of the blocks going together ... they wont.

Here are some of the clothes I used ...

{All of my girls wore this one. There are only a few things that they all wore, so I'm really trying to use those pieces!}

{This one I only used the end of one of the sleeves - so far - for the "pretty" tag}

Memory Quilt ... ??

So my husband & I have decided not to have anymore kids, and I have been going back & forth on what to do with all of these totes and boxes and bags of outgrown baby clothes. I have decided that I really want to make a quilt of some sort, but not sure what to do exactly.

SO my question is ... have you ever made one? I don't want it to just be patchwork squares, because I'm going to have a lot of items that I wont be able to get a full square out of. I'm thinking a log cabin quilt?? What have you done, or do you have any idea on what I should do??

Hit me with some ideas!! Thanks!!