MaryKatherine

I have someone asking me to make her quilt, a tshirt quilt. She has 30+. And she'd like a King size. She's willing to pay but trying very hard to keep her costs down.
I've told her the standard method; stabilze the t-shirts sew them together, with or without sashing and sew it to a woven backing with batting.
I've suggested making each into a PILLOW and sewing them together like a rag quilt. For this I'm thinking the backs must be stabilzed.
I've suggested making both the front and the back stabilzed t-shirt material.
I don't think there is any other method I can suggest to her.
Can anyone help?
MaryKatherine

Arleners

I made one this way. I used fusible stablizer on each T shirt square. I then framed each square with flannel to make a uniform block size that included the seam allowances. Then I cut squares out of flannel for the backing to match the size of the front squares. I put these together and sewed them like a rag quilt. It was heavy enough that I didn't need to use batting. I came out beautiful if I say so myself!

quilterella

This is the one I made, I stablized each tshirt with a woven tricot fusible. The pattern is a snowball/nine patch variation. Just a little differnt from the squares.

MaryKatherine

Thanks ladies. I just wish my client would make up her mind!!
MaryKatherine

mpspeedy

If she really wants to save money tell her what she needs in the way of stabalizer etc. Let her cut up the shirts and stabilize them herself. To cut down on weight eliminate the batting and just use a flannel sheet for the backing. If the grunt work of cutting and stabilizing is done by her you can cut her a deal on your sewing the blocks together and assembling the quilt.

homecaregiver

I like the quilts that were shown and a good use of these t-shirts.
Pat

soccertxi

suggest that she get on Joann's mailing list and use a coupon for her stabilizers. A king t-shirt quilt will be heavy! Here are two pictures of t-shirt quilts I have made. The shadow one is my favorite!

Arleners

I really like the shadow design! I must keep that in mind for my next T shirt quilt.