Quilting a T-Shirt Quilt, simply
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Quilting a T-Shirt Quilt, simply
I just made 2 T-Shirt quilts for a friend and had the Queen size one longarmed. I also made a large lap quilt out of the left over shirts and don't feel I can afford another longarm expense. I cannot free motion quilt! I have tried and tried with no luck. Not even meandering.
The blocks are 16". How would you quilt this easily? It has to be done soon as she is moving south.
Thank you in advance for any advice.
Jan
The blocks are 16". How would you quilt this easily? It has to be done soon as she is moving south.
Thank you in advance for any advice.
Jan
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What kind of batting are you using? Some batts don't need close quilting, but at 16", I think those blocks are going to need SOME quilting. Even if you tied it, you'd have to tie in strategic places within the blocks.
What about big stitch quilting? It's by hand, but since it's big stitch, it goes a lot faster than traditional hand quilting.
What about big stitch quilting? It's by hand, but since it's big stitch, it goes a lot faster than traditional hand quilting.
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I just made 2 T-Shirt quilts for a friend and had the Queen size one longarmed. I also made a large lap quilt out of the left over shirts and don't feel I can afford another longarm expense. I cannot free motion quilt! I have tried and tried with no luck. Not even meandering.
The blocks are 16". How would you quilt this easily? It has to be done soon as she is moving south.
Thank you in advance for any advice.
Jan
The blocks are 16". How would you quilt this easily? It has to be done soon as she is moving south.
Thank you in advance for any advice.
Jan
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The quilt top is all put together. I hate tied quilts. One of my problems is that most of the designs take up the whole space. I was thinking about quilting a couple of lines in each block, alternating between vertical and horizontal. Do you think that would look alright?
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I just finished a t-shirt quilt. It had sashing between each shirt so I quilted in the ditch around each shirt on both sides of the sashing. Then I quilted an X through each shirt going right through the printing on the shirt. it didn't seem to cause any problems. I used painter's tape to mark the X. I also stitched in the ditch around the outside borders.
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I might be tempted to use the circle motif on my Bernina. It stitches a perfect 1/4 inch circle, do you have any fancy stitches on your machine that will stitch one motif? You could stitch little motifs in the 16 inch block avoiding the printing. Some machines have a bar tack feature, you could do those in a grid on the blocks also.
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