Saturday, October 6, 2018

T-Shirt Quilt

A friend from work asked me if I could make a T-shirt quilt for her from her son's baseball shirts. I decide that I would try it as a quilt-as-you-go by quilting the rows.


After prepping the shirts, I spent some time arranging the shirts for the front of the quilt.


I then prepared the back design for the rows.


I added sashing between the blocks.


I just did straight row quilting on the sandwich back, batting, and front.


To do the quilting, I measured and taped off the distance between the quilted stitching, about 3".


I then pinned and stitched the back sashing and front sashing onto the rows.


I finished off the top sashing with just a straight stitch very close to the edge of the sashing strip.


Once all assembled, I finished off the quilt with the binding, which I just straight stitched finished.


Back of finished quilt.


And the front of the finished quilt.

3 comments:

  1. Nice! I still haven't done a t-shirt quilt.

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    1. Thanks! I don't like working with the T-shirt material since it stretches even with the Pellon and some shirts have thick printing. But, the quilt was fun to make as a quilt-as-you-go.

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  2. That really turned out well. I have hundreds of scout t-shirts but I don't think I could make something that nice and organized.

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