Old 01-13-2011, 06:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Kimkankwilt
I have collected over 75 hockey t-shirts from when my kids used to play...now i just have to find time to make them into a quilt...
So true Kimkankwilt...I saved son's shirts for over 29 years while we lived in same house. Then when we moved, I found them stuffed really deep in basement shelving. By the time I settled into new home, retired and became bored, I returned to sewing and became a quilter. His t-shirt quilt was one of the very first I made and I did everything wrong, i.e. wrong fusibles and too heavy fabric for sashing. Then when it was quilted, threads kept breaking because glue on fusing stuck to needle, resulting in needle having to be milked down frequently. lol

You said you had multiple shirts so you should be able to have a good selection to make a uniform quilt. Example is a wall hanging I made where the shirts all had a white background. It really does help.

Wall hanging mentioned in first paragraph of this thread.
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