My first quilt.
#22
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That being said tying will hold up - my mon tied two quilts and her only problem was my brothers and I untying the knots!
#23
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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.......
#25
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Location: North Carolina
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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
Ellen
Ellen
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tshirt quilt
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.
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