T-shirt Quilt
#2
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: 1000 miles from nowwhere
Posts: 671
i have made lots of them for graduation presents .....the kids love them ....they go together rather easy ...main thing that i found is to stabilize the shirts ,fuse-on something [there are a few options ] i tend to use a solid around the shirts and do bold borders ...that makes the shirts pop ......good luck
#3
Super Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: A Hop from Heaven, a Skip from Sanity and a Jump from the Good Life....
Posts: 6,665
test the stabilizers first to make sure its what you want.. theres a few out there.. some are thin and some are thick.. some are hard to sew thru as well.. so test first on scrap shirts..
#4
Member
Join Date: Dec 2012
Posts: 90
I have a small tshirt quilt business. I use the too cool tshirt method www.toocooltshirtquilts.com (I have no affiliation with them) except that I back my t shirts with Pellon 906F Its just enough to make them stable yet thin enough as not too create a lot of bulk. Hope this helps
#5
I've made a few of them for customers - I wear out all my own T shirts! - and I have always backed the shirts with lightweight fusible. I do sashing around the shirts, and then an outer border around the outer layer of sashing (so the shirts are individually framed, and then the whole center is framed as well). I quilt each shirt with its own unique pattern and try to incorporate symbols, or elements that fit with the shirt's appearance, like a sports team's logo or mascot, or the motto of a university.
Have fun!
Alison
Have fun!
Alison
#6
Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Madison, WI
Posts: 187
I made a t-shirt quilt after my brother passed away, and gave it to my sister. Our brother had special needs, and for many years had attended an adult summer camp--and had t-shirts from every session, as well as many from travel, etc. I backed the logos with fusible light-weight interfacing and filled in irregular shapes (he also had logos from Special Olympics golf and bowling tournaments, etc.) with machine embroidery as appropriate.
I sashed, bordered, backed and bound the quilt with a red/maroon flannel, his favorite color, and tied it with maroon perle cotton. It was very special to all of us.
I sashed, bordered, backed and bound the quilt with a red/maroon flannel, his favorite color, and tied it with maroon perle cotton. It was very special to all of us.
#8
Power Poster
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Southern California
Posts: 19,127
In the upper right corner on this site, enter T-shirt quilts in the white box and then click advance search. Make the selections that you want. Usually I click on POSTS. There you will find many pictures of T-shirt quilts to help inspire you. Just realize they become quite heavy the larger you make them. Good Luck !!
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
mac
General Chit-Chat (non-quilting talk)
17
03-15-2015 09:44 PM