RitaFaye

My nephew has asked for a t-shirt quilt but he wants staggered seams, does anyone have an idea
or a photo/tutorial on how to do this? He also requested no quilting *L* but that is beyond me too.
It has to be quilted right?.
Any ideas would be wonderful thanks Rita

ibex94

"staggered seams" does he mean he doesn't want the t'shirt blocks in columns?

perhaps with the "no quilting" request he means that fancy stuff that might detract from the t-shirts? He needs to know that you have to quilt the three layers together. Perhaps a simple stitch in the ditch will do it depending on how you stagger the blocks.

Prism99

I think this is what he doesn't want:
https://www.campusquilt.com/order/

And these would be examples of what he does want:
http://www.gotquiltz.com/gallery/

It *has* to be quilted to hold the layers together, but the quilting can be quite minimal if you use Warm and Natural batting with scrim (which allows lines to be up to 10" apart).

You might want to ask him if he is okay with sashing strips. I would think sashing strips would help you achieve the "staggered" look more easily. Either way, with or without sashing, you will need to create a "map" of the finished quilt before starting so that you know how to cut the pieces and fit them together. What you might want to do is take a digital photo of each t-shirt, print them out, cut the photos into squares and rectangles that highlight the logos, then arrange the logos into a pleasing design. You can do this on top of a piece of black fabric to see how black sashing would fit. Once you get something you like, take a photo of it and get your nephew's approval. If he likes it, then re-map the whole thing onto a sheet of graph paper (4 blocks to the inch so you have 1/4" sewing increments). That will give you the *finished* dimensions of each t-shirt. You probably want to cut the actual shirts at least one inch bigger first and then, if you want 1/4" seams, cut them down to exact dimensions as you sew.

Here are a couple of tutorials I found online that might be helpful:
https://www.toocooltshirtquilts.com/...-Extraordinary
http://www.instructables.com/id/T-shirt-Quilts/

gramajo

My DD made my quilt using the too cool tshirt quilt mentioned in prism's post above. This method does not require you to back the shirts with fusible. She meandered it with invisible thread. She has made 5 or 6 using this method. She also used pockets, patches, polo shirt plackets, and a V-necked shirt.[ATTACH=CONFIG]556226[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]556226[/ATTACH]
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RitaFaye

Oh that is so lovely, thanks everyone for all the replies and the suggestions, I am sure we will come up with something.

osewme

Here's one that a lady from our LQS made that I love. I like the filler blocks between the t-shirt logos

osewme

Here's another one that she made:

ManiacQuilter2

There have been some neat t-shirt quilts posted on this board. You can email different finished t-shirt quilts and see which pattern he likes.