I published a post on this blog not long ago on how I made a t-shirt quilt for my son. Since the last item I needed to complete my Disney themed guest room was the bed spread, I decided to use the same T-shirt quilt concept for a Disney quilt.
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My Son's T-shirt quilt |
The Disney quilt has 6 squares across and 7 squares down and each square is 15 by 15. The color theme in the room is black, white, gray and red, so I had to find fabric in those colors that had the Mickey and Minnie theme. I was able to find some great fabric at Joann Fabric and Hobby Lobby. Along with the printed fabric, I bought some solid black and gray fabric to tone down the busy patterns.
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Some of the patterns I am using for the quilt. |
The next fabric I had to buy was the fabric for the back of the quilt. Because the quilt front will be 90 inches wide for a queen bed I had to find a fabric for the back that would be wide enough to cover most of the back. I found a cool Mickie flannel print to put on each side to make up for the extra inches of fabric needed to cover the entire back. I bought a gray sweatshirt fabric to go down the middle of the flannel fabric. I also used the extra flannel fabric to add some squares to the middle of the gray fabric.
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This is the sweatshirt and flannel fabric for the back of the quilt. I cut 4 extra squares ironed the edges under about a half of an inch and top stitched the squares staggering them down the middle. |
I drew up a grid on some paper to come up with a pattern as to where each square was going to go and then I knew how many squares of each pattern I need to make.
I cut the squares 17 x 17 and also cut iron on interfacing the same size. I applied the interfacing to the large squares and then cut them down to 16 x 16 so that I had a 1/2 inch seam allowance on all sides.
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The first cut of the square |
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Ironing on the interfacing to each square |
After all the squares were cut I laid them on the floor to figure out if I like the pattern on my grid. As it turned out, I didn't like it, so I played with it like a puzzle and came up with a look I liked.
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It took a few tries to get the layout the way I liked it. |
I picked up each cross row with the far left square on top and stacked the rest under the top one all the way across. After stacking all the rows across I started sewing them together. This process was the same as the instructions on my T-shirt quilt blog post.
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A finished row |
When the top was complete I laid the back piece right side up on the kitchen island and put the front piece on top of the back with the right sides together. Then smoothing the two pieces out and making sure they were straight alone the edges, I pinned, and then sewed it all the way around the edges leaving about 20 inches open to turn the quilt right sides out.
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All of the corners where four squares meet I pinned the front to the back. |
I then turned the comforter right side out through the open section and then hand sewed the opening closed. Next, like the instructions with the t-shirt quilt, I laid the quilt top side up, I straightened all the edge seams, smoothed the surface, pinned the top to the bottom at the all the square corners, using embroidery floss, I tacked the front to the back at those corners tying a square knot, and that finished the project.
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All corners were tacked together with 6 strands of embroidery floss tied in a square knot. |
I can use the back as the comforter top, or the front as a quilt. I also moved the red comforter from my guest room, and put the new quilt to the bottom of the bed.
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This is the back of the Mickey/Minnie quilt. |
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The front of the new Mickey/Minnie quilt. |
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I used the old comforter from my guest room and draped the new quilt on the bottom of the bed. |
It turned out cute and reversible. In the words of Mickie Mouse, "Oh Boy!
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