Making a quilt from shirts: Question
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Making a quilt from shirts: Question
I picked up a few used mens' shirts today to cut up for a quilt...kind of an experiment. They are all 100% cotton, but a couple of them are "rustley"; they make noise when rubbed together. I am wondering if this is just due to the smooth finish of the cotton? Any way to keep it from happening? I wonder if when they are cut up and pieced with pieces that don't rustle, if I won't notice it as bad. It's kind of annoying. You couldn't sneak up on a person while wearing one of them.
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I repurpose 100% cotton shirts all the time and I know the issue you are describing. I find that this finish makes it easier to work with and, has a stabilizing effect giving me better accuracy with less effort.
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If you aren’t sure if some of the shirts are all cotton, I’d stabilize those in particular. I recently made a t shirt quilt with cotton blocks in the corners. I stabilitised the t shirts but not the corners. It came out great. I used Pellon shapeflex SF 101. It’s a fusible woven stabilizer. I like and use it a lot. You can get it almost anywhere. Walmart Joanns and amazon.
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The first quilt I ever made was without any instructions at all. I knew nothing except I had seen a You Tube on QAYG with the sashing between blocks. I had a box of scraps given to me that I wanted to use up. That quilt has every kind of fabric; cotton, jersey, lots of polyester, and that bumpy fabric. Of course it is a scrap quilt made without a pattern. It is on my bed now, and I see no problem with it at all.
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