My Utility Quilts
 

Last week I posted about how I wanted to make quilts from some old sheet sets I had. Don't tell the Quilt Police, but I made the quilts, I had fun doing it, and they are definitely not perfect. I did make one modification to my plan. I had originally planned on fixing the corners of the fitted sheet to use all that material, but it was far easier to cut the pieces off where they didn't match and not fix the corners. I didn't waste too much material and the project went more quickly. One other thing that I did do was cut off the beautiful border on the top of the Winnie the Pooh flat sheet and insert in the middle of the top of the quilt to get the most use out of it. I used a twin size Winnie the Pooh set for the first one and a double size Tinkerbell set for the second one. Easy to do and now I have two picnic/beach/packing quilts ready to use.


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Those are just lovely! Great job!

Great looking quilts. I have been considering purchasing some flea market sheets.
Congrats on a fine job.
Carolyn

Great idea....and two pretty quilts.

Great repurposing project and a great way to practice FMQ without taking the time to piece.

Those turned out great!

Very pretty. Anything and everything is acceptable that you want to do. Your idea turned out very well and you used what you had.

what cute quilts

very nicely done

What a great way to recycle!! They are great and will get a lot of practical use! You should be proud!

They came out beautifully ! Such pretty quilts from re-purposed sheets!

you did a fantastic job on your quilts

very nice!!!!

Great idea. I buy sheets at the thrift stores so may start to look for more than just the plain colors.

Wonderful idea!!! They turned out great :)

Very very nice.

Those are adorable. A great idea to practice FMQ )as someone said). I'm going to try that. Thanks for the pictures.

What a great idea and they turned out beautiful.

well there you go There is no "law" that states where you have to get your fabric from!

Very cute quilts.

I think they are great.

I don't pay attention to the quilt police either.

They look very nice.

These are great!!!!

turned out really cute

Nice work and a great idea.

Those are lovely, great job and very creative and thank you for sharing
Have a Blessed day
Ellen

I agree with everyone here! Perfect way to recycle!

I love recycling!! You did a beautiful job! I use old sheets that I buy from GW Inc (Goodwill Incorporated) for the lining of many of my quilts. I've found some beauties, some even new. Your idea is a great one!

Great idea! And cute too!

Wasn't quilting something that was all about repurposing objects that were no longer useful for the originally intended purpose? You've done a GREAT job with these, and it's a great way to practice FMQ.

Great job. I have used sheets for my backing. I always pick really pretty sheets from the Thrift store and they have worked great and everyone asks where I got such pretty fabric ! I also made a lap quilt from a Waverly sheet and it turned out so pretty.

very cute!

Brilliant idea. I love the pooh..I found out last night my daughters baby is going to be a boy...a pooh bear lover! Thanks for sharing

Great quilts they are perfect, and what a wonderful way to use what one has, I do all the time.:thumbup:

Both are so cute. (No quilt police will be called.)

What a great idea !
Wish I had thought of this before I gave away some really cute prints the kids out grew.

These are the best bar none, as they can be USED!

Very nice. Thanks for posting! :)

Love, love love them! Creative recycling idea is just brilliant.