Finally finished this t-shirt quilt!
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Finally finished this t-shirt quilt!
This is the last t-shirt quilt I have on my list and I am not sorry to see them all done. I called this Be The Star (in your own life.). The man this quilt is for has certainly done that. I made a big C out of the scrappy yellow stars for the initial of his last name. I am surprised that none of the quilting shows up on the backing.
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Did you quilt it on a DSM? I find that task difficult. I've machine quilted the sashings and borders but had to either tie of hand quilt over the t-shirts. I've since bought a teflon presser foot but have not tried it yet.
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For this quilt, where several t-shirts are stitched together, I used a herringbone stitch and quilted over each seam joining the t-shirts and on the outside of each t-shirt block.
Last edited by wildyard; 09-05-2014 at 09:06 AM.
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Wow! wildyard, that's amazing. So let's see if I understand. Each t-shirt block has it's own backing (would that be a certain fabric or interfacing?) to which the shirt is quilted. And then another whole backing is used for the back of the entire quilt once the sashings are attached? I use fusible interfacing on the back of each t-shirt square (I iron this on before I cut out the block). The first few t-s quilts I made did not have the fusible and they were too stretchy to do the machine quilting.
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