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Beautiful quilt and your friend will appreciate all the work you put into it
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Originally Posted by Cindy60545
(Post 5270894)
ChrisD, welcome from another Texan! I'd do like some of the others, stitch in the ditch around each block & just do a stipple around the designs to anchor them, without going thru the designs.
That being said tying will hold up - my mon tied two quilts and her only problem was my brothers and I untying the knots! |
instead of invisible thread why not use thread the color of the background of each block-or a contrast to it and go around the design of the tee - and then use what ever color sort of buries itself into the sashing to finish that off........I do these on a LA and I use thread the color of t-shirt background to "lock in" the tee-shirt.......
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If you tie it with yarn, it will not come out. If you use wool yarn, it just gets tighter with every wash. I have never seen ties come out that were made with yarn.
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Nice quilt! I have done a couple of t shirt quilts, one with t's on both sides. The heavy rubbery designs are nearly impossible to quilt over. And baste or pin well...Start at the center. A meandering stitch through sashing and other parts of the t's will work. and the invisible thread will work well. We want more pics when it is done
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Beautiful Quilt.
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This quilt is adorable! And your first? Wow......Welcome from Houston (Galleria area)...
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Your t-shirt quilt looks great. This is on my to do list. Let us know how you finish it.
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tshirt quilt
Originally Posted by ChrisD
(Post 5267059)
Well I made a t-shirt quilt top. I have my sandwich made. Now my question is where do I start quilting so I don't have puckering? Do I start in the middle and go out or do I start on one side and go to the other? Also is it ok not to quilt over the actual pictures? I don't want to mess them up. I am concerned that if I only stitch in the ditch they will puff out. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I do have a picture attached.
I have made several tshrt quilts for people. I have tied a reallly huge.one and it.washed fine. I have also juststitched a diagonal about 4" apart and thrum the shirts. It didn't destroy the look of theshirts at all. Then you could stitch differently in the border. Either way you quilt looks wonderful. It turned out really well. |
Can't really make any suggestions that would help the situation but had to say that this is one of the nicest T-shirt quilts I've seen. Really great job.
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