Love the quilt! We are sorting my dear old Dads home and contents after his death in January. I was not looking forward to making decisions on his clothes , but your quilt has encouraged me to do a little quilt of his shirts ,as a memory that is fresh , modern and new. He was a tidy , humble , kind man and he loved my quilt making. Thanks for the inspiration and insight.
I did this with my dadas shirts. I used them ALL and every part of them. I used the pockets as the size of the patches. I used the collars, pinning the ends together and used them as the trim around the edges. And i used the long part where the buttons are ( dont know the name of this piece) as the trim on the longer ends. I was a labor of love but I absolutely love it! Good luck ❤
Your upcycled quilt is really delightful - you will treasure for many yrs. I have my first quilts and stilll sleep under them every night -some are over 30 yrs old. They traveled all over north America for many yrs in a camper van. My hubby playing his accordion and me patching the patchwork quilts - so many wonderful memories sewn into them - by lakes, and deserts, mountains and oceans. The lovely quilts will do the same of you. Bravo!
The little imperfections tell a story, thrifting used or preloved fabric/material means the previous owner has done all the work - eg washing it, wearing it in, the colours no longer run etc. You are giving these items another life where they can be loved and cherished once again.
What a lovely reminder to embrace our imperfections. I think your quilt is beautiful and I loved watching. It will always comfort you with memories of the journey of making it. My Dad died in 2008 and I still have a box of his favorite shirts in my closet that I could not give away. Now because of your video I know exactly what to do with them. 🧡 Debbie from El Cajon, California USA 🇺🇸
I've made many many quilts in my life. Most with out following a pattern. Every time I look at the finished quilt I can remember all the little tricks I used. When you pick up a handmade item you can feel the person's energy. I'm so thankful to have such a rewarding hobby. Great job on your blanket!
I relate to that so much 😂 i'm the queen of little tricks and no patterns. It's more fun this way, and the final piece is like a suprise ✨ thank you for your comment!
Muy bonitos tus proyectos y este en particular! En Ingles decimos 4 BY 4. Tambien quilt se dice como Cuilt, son pequenas cosas que tambien tuve que aprender. Eres muy inteligente y admiro la calidad de tus videos. Saludos tambien al dueno de las camisas.
Thank you for addressing this! I love creating out of thrifted things too. It is common that our thrift stores have bins of clothing for $1 an item and you can find some great things there. I actually got 2 pieces yesterday and was unpicking them while watching your video!!!!!! One is a cotton embroidered dress with yards and yards of thick trim. The other (in similar dark peach tones) is a large men’s striped shirt. This will be for a quilt. A tip I came across was to off-set the squares as then you don’t have the bulk in the joins and also don’t have to worry about matching the intersection join!!!
I resell used clothes on ebay, and while women's clothes sell well, men shirts are poor sellers. While I am less than handy, and sewing is not my thing at all, I still was searching on how to upcycle mens flannels, and here you are, with a great project and amazing result. Thank you for sharing. Will be my summer project, hopefully I will sell it, too.
That's great! Maybe you can start by making patchwork tote bags with the shirts, I'm not sure it's worth to sell the blanket if you count the hours and resources, or at least sell it at a high price. Let me know if it works for you! 😚
I am delighted to have just discovered you thru the algorithm. Your quilt reminds me of one I made about 20 years ago. I made it out of thrifted Christmas/winter flannel pajama pants and threw in a pair of flannel leopard print pj’s to spice the quilt up a bit. It now belongs to one of my daughters. These handmade quilts make me feel so cozy and truly like I’m being hugged by the maker, like the quilt made for me by my grandmother when I was a little girl. I still have that one and it’s now well over 50 years old, I still use it when I need a little TLC. 🥰
Hello! I love the idea of the pijama's quilt 😍😍 so lucky that your daughters have it and that you have your mom's ✨✨ I hope my quilt will have that much meaning in 50 years. So far it is the coziest thing we have at home 🥰
Greetings from Canada. I love the way your quilt turned out. It looks very welcoming and cozy. For me the fun in quilting is in the process itself, the decisions, the trial and error, the satisfaction when I am sewing down the binding and it sounds like you enjoy the journey too. Thanks for sharing.
Yess you are absolutely right! This afternoon I tried on making a pillow with the rag quilt style, and time fled while deciding the colours and trying out new ways to sew, it's so fun!. I used the scraps of the Patchwork Blanket 😊
I swear girl your Videos are The best most of Them literally remind me to stuff I wanted to do a while ago just The same As this 😭 btw i really enjoyed The whole process of The video :)
I'm so happy you like it! 🥰 Recording/documenting this projects has helped a lot to prioritize them and give them more value, so I have more motivation to stop putting ideas apart. Maybe this helps you! 💖
Your quilting looked beautiful... You have inspired me to sew a textile and make a jacket... your channel is pure inspiration... (sorry for my English with grammatical errors... I only speak Spanish) Greetings from Argentina ps: thanks for the subtitles in Spanish...it is very much appreciated ❤❤
Loved watching you make this patchwork quilt. I am going to make one very much like yours, and if there are flaws in mine it will be unique and authentic!!
I did something similar, only I collected wool sweaters from thrift stores and turned them into a felted pathwork quilt. Now I need to try one like you made with thrifted shirts. Thank you for the inspiration Estel!! xxoo Judy
I love that idea, was it difficult to cut & sew? I've seen patchwork sweaters from old sweaters and it also looks great, I would like to try that some day ✨ Big hug Judy!
Thank you so much for the video. The filming and editing is remarkable, same for the music choices. And the resulting quilt... it's beautiful. On every level. - Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi
@@estelsogo Thank you so much. I love the combination of self-care, drink your water & eat something, use what you have and oh, by-the-way, have fun while you're doing it. Really, really good stuff. Are you doing this singlehandedly or have you built a team to support you? Because the production value on the screen are really impressive.
@@stevezytveld6585 yeess! I like to put recipes in my videos, cooking is one of my passions too ☺️ i'm doing the videos in my free time (I work part time), luckily my boyfriend helps me film when he can 🥰 so far I enjoy making this videos because it gives me an excuse to spend more time on my hobbies 🧵🎁 thank you for appreciating it ✨
@@estelsogo That's about the healthiest Creative Process I've met. Kiddo, I bow... lol. You're doing a really amazing job. Thank you. It's inspiring. I'm in the baby steps of building towards starting my own vintage sewing channel. Not that I have an idea about how any of this technology works or how commerce works in this digital world...lol. But I've been wanting to start one of my own ever since I ran into a Bernadette Banner video back in December 2019 in my YT "Recommends". By the time lockdown hit I had enough sewing supplies to last me a while...
@@stevezytveld6585 you are too kind! 🥰 the vintage sewing channel sounds very interesting! I started by watching a lot of videos on how to make a youtube channel, VidIQ has hundred of videos about this. The start It's overwhelming, because there are so many ways of building a channel, and you do a lot of work and get only a few views. But if your motivation is making the projects instead of getting those views you will stay motivated. Think about it as if you where doing videos for your family to follow your projects. I always recommend to my friends to make a youtube channel as a way of self-discover and focusing on their interests haha I hope this helped! Let me know if you start your channel :) I also recommend you follow @staceyleecreative, her videos look very neat and are easy to follow (as inspiration for your channel)
Nice job. You should be very pleased with this project. Loved your placement of the various fabrics in the quilt. I use about 50% upcycled fabrics. I am still quilting and selling at 72 - love it!
The tie need to be placed 3 to 4 inches away from the next one. Otherwise the batting will eventually bunch up. But saying this we look at quilts to last forever, so they have all these rules but sometimes things are for the moment. They are for today and aren't made to last a hundred years. Learn the skills, enjoy the process and give yourself grace not to be perfect. I was a sewing teacher for many years. I could pick this all apart but I truly love it and her process. It is the same mental process I and my students use. Your going to make mistakes and you should, you are learning. No one learns anything by being perfect. This is the process of how we learn as humans. This is a beginner quilt made with love and kindness. I have now started watercolors. I told my mom I was so excited because I didn't have to be perfect....I could just enjoy the process. Very nice video.. thank you
First time here, that looks absolutely amazing! I love thriftstores, they tell so much an i love finding gems. I always look for books and clothing, sometimes other shiny stuff. I think i want to make a quilt too :D . I am familiar with a sewing machine and i have made alot of things, just not a quilt. Thank for the video, i'll try the recipe too :D
Tu trabajo me recuerda los acolchados de " La familia Hingals en su casa en la pradera" me conecta con mis mermeladas de duraznos , mis tejidos en invierno, las hojas rojizas de mi enredadera y la infancia de mis hermosos hijos. Lloro porque el mayor se fué con Dios, vos no me conoces pero tu trabajo me llenó de una cálida paz que casi nunca encuentro. Gracias, voy a buscar un sueter de mí querido Guille para hacer algo para mí y por mí. Dios te bendiga.desde Argentina, La abuela Marisa.
Buenos días Marisa, gracias por tu bonito comentario ❤️ Admiro tu sensibilidad y que hayas podido recoger tantas sensaciones y recuerdos del vídeo, a mi también me sucede con otros vídeos, objetos, olores... ✨ Te deseo mucha suerte y amor en tu proyecto con el sueter de Guille, es muy bonito que lo hagas para ti 🤍 Un abrazo enorme! Estel.
Estel, hello from Georgia in the US. Just found you and the title interested me because I've been thinking of doing this with thrifted shirts. Just watched Kate at The Last Homely House in England; she makes unique quilts and sewing projects - check her out. Both of you have inspired me to move ahead with this idea. Love that your partner helps you along, and your dogs are so cute. Thank you for sharing and stay well.
Hello Vivian ☺️ I'm glad you liked it, I didn't know Kate, thanks for the recommendation 🥰 I wish you the best for your project, you are going to have a lot of fun ✨✨ Pd: the lovelly puppies are my sister's dogs 💖
in the 1800s, seamstresses used to secret a red thread somewhere in their work to show it was NOT perfect because only their diety could make anything perfect.
Wait, so did you not actually quilt it?? That's gonna Bevan issue with use and washing. The batting will pull apart account up. If you don't want the quilting lines to show, do what's called "stitch in the ditch" which is where you too stitch directly on the seams. You can do straight lines horizontally and vertically right where the squares are stitched together. It's not close enough, ideally, to keep it together, but is certainly better than leaving it as is. It looks really cute, I just worry it will not last you long as it is now.
Hello, thank you for your tips 🥰I actually tried to stitch it directly on the seams but I need more practice to stitch stright. Then I tried other techniques and undo it. At the end I didn't add any batting, it's only the patchwork top attached to the blanket fabric, because the blanket fabric was thick and warm enough, then I stiched the margins to give it more structure. It was a project were I have tried almost all the options 😁 In the next project I did the cross quilting for rag quilting pillows, as I was eager to actually quilt. This would be a Patchwork Blanket. Big hug! 🐻
Thank you! I will look for one, because I would love to make more quilts with different stiches 🧵
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like, how much did you pay for one??? wud it beat my 2 euros a meter of new fabrics???just asking....i hope you found love in your stiching! most certainly!
Hi! It would be about 15-20€ for 10 shirts, some were 1€, some 2€. They were good quality and I like to re-use instead of buying new as much as I can, so the environtment cost is low. On the other side, it takes more time to get that much fabric! Big hug 🐻
6 месяцев назад
and the waste; what do u do with them...@@estelsogo
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it must be irresponsible to just throw the rest!@@estelsogo
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For ten meters I paid 20 euros, and there are no "rest afval", because I can use the scraps!@@estelsogo
Ciao! Non parlo italiano, provo a risponderti con Google Translator 😊 i quadri sono cuciti insieme e poi cuciti fino al margine. Ho cucito il margine da destra a destra della coperta blu, lasciando uno spazio per rivoltarla in seguito. Non è così che appare la cucitura. Per finire di strutturarlo, ho fatto una cucitura attorno a tutto il margine e tutto si è amalgamato molto bene. Big hug!
