Dress or flannel shirts would make a nicer quilt. If doing a tshirt limit the number to fewer then lots.
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Dress or flannel shirts would make a nicer quilt. If doing a tshirt limit the number to fewer then lots.
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A friend made a quilt using husbands dress shirts. She was amazed how colour coordinated he was. Suggest you ask friend to try and coordinate colours unless she has a personal favourite. Also to keep his aftershave or similiar as she can put it on the quilt periodically and snuggle in his smell.
Finished is better than a UFO
Forgot to attach the link to Bonnie Hunter's instructions on how to take a shirt apart:
http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2012/...irt-movie.html
"I do not understand how anyone can live without one small place of enchantment to turn to."
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
I can't help, just want to say it is a very good idea. Sorry for her loss.
Another Phyllis
This life is the only one you get - enjoy it before you lose it.
I would use the shirts but make sure they are clean. Here are three designs that were just recently posted. If you did an advance search on t-shirt quilts, you could find more pattern designs. Number of t-shirts depends on the layout.
need some advice on background fabric and sashing option
A Good Friend, like an old quilt, is both a Treasure and a Comfort
a small man's shirt has about 1.5 yards of fabric in it.
An xxx large man's shirt has 3-4 yards in it
18-ish neckties are about a yard of fabric
Last edited by KalamaQuilts; 12-23-2014 at 10:16 AM.
So sorry for your loss.
If the shirts have to be shipped to you, it would probably take many more t-shirts than dress shirts, if you are using the graphics on the front of t-shirts, although you can add to the t-shirts by using transfer paper to transfer his college emblem, favorite sports team graphics, ... using the fabric from his t-shirts. But t-shirts are usually a simpler design - square or rectangular blocks with sashing that you would probably provide.
Sue Wilson
i try to tell everyone 20 to 24 t-shirts and you could use other fabric or dress shirts for the sashing ...did one for a friend was one shirt short so we did a emb.block with her name for the extra one .....
When my husband of 28 years passed in 2008, a friend of one of my children made teddy bears out of his cotton work shirts. My son and daughter each have one....you might think of using the small pieces that are left over for this.
I have made two memory quilts one of each with thirty 12" blocks, 5 X 6. The first was a t-shirt with sashing and a 2" border, that was about twin sized when completed. The second was done with 8 dress shirts with added background sheeting with no sashing; I had to add a large border to get it up to a full sized quilt.
Last edited by dee1245; 12-26-2014 at 08:41 AM.
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