quiltlady1941

I have never made a T shirt quilt before, so I spent a few hours reading the posts here, on how to make one. I think I have all the info I need to made the quilt.

What I would like to know is, could I do a quilt as you go for this quilt. I'm going to join the blocks with sashing anyway. I am not real good at doing the quilting on a big quilt on my sewing machine so this would be better for me.

Do you think it would look ok.

I'm going to try and make my blocks with a shadow strip so it will look like the blocks are floating on the back ground. I seen a real pretty quilt here made by Watterstide with a shadow strip.

anyway I was just wondering if the quilt as you go would work.. Thank you

QuiltingKrazy

You can always try a mini test quilt using the parts of the t-shirts your not using and other scrap fabric!
That way if you don't like it or it doesn't work like planned, you havent ruin anything.
Good Luck!

ckcowl

in my book the best way to do t-shirt quilts is ---- quilt as you go-
makes it so much easier to quilt each block as you go along-
that's the way i've done 3 of them so far- same way i do raggy quilts- i quilt each block-then construct the quilt.
go for it.
if you can dream it--you can accomplish it

quiltlady1941

Thank you Ckcowl
I'm glad that soneone else has made this quilt that way and it turned out ok....I think I will go for it, as I would make a mess out of the quilt if I tried to quilt it after it was put together. I have made one other quilt as you go and it turned out ok but it wasn't a t shirt quilt... LOL

Thanks eveyone for your reply...

tatavw01

please post when done

Arleners

Quilt as you go is the only way to go for a t shirt quilt, IMHO. I put on a sashing of flannel around each block and then finish it off as a rag quilt. They come out beautiful!