Harley Davidson tee shirt quilt finished, wahoo!
07-05-2014, 05:00 PM
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Harley Davidson tee shirt quilt finished, wahoo!
Just finished this tee shirt quilt two nights ago. It is for a customer, my first tee shirt quilt. I followed a lot of tips posted on this board, thank goodness. I found it fairly challenging. I stabilized the shirts as was strongly suggested. And still found the shirts wanted to stretch, scoot and wrinkle when I tried to machine quilt around the printed designs. I ended up taking all the machine stitching out of my first attempt. Then I hand quilted around the designs on the shirts, and the lettering. I machine stitched in the ditch on the sashing and borders. I used a purchased flame embroidery design with my machine hoop to anchor the corners and blank spots on the shirts. Added a decorative machine design on the border, and hey, presto, it is done. The flame fabric was the customer's choice after I showed him the fabric online. So, next week I will call him to come collect his quilt. Gee, hope he lies it. Learned lots of lessons with this one, for sure
I'm sure your customer will be very happy!
07-06-2014, 05:08 AM
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A couple if things I forgot to mention....I think fabric sashing works better than putting the shirts directly against each other, to cut down on the stretching. And I definitely advise cutting a larger square from the shirt, ironing on the stabilizer, then cutting to size wanted. I used 16 inch squares as my finish size, to include as much if the logo as possible. Thanks for looking
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