Originally Posted by Sewfine
Real neat. My sister is suppose to be sending me some of her now deceased husbands tee shirts and family pictures to make a memory quilt. Never made one before. I have some idea of what I want to do. Have to write it down and draw it out.
This was my first memory quilt as well (though I've made other quilts with recycled clothing). It has both tee shirts and woven shirts (the bright green and the red and grey stripes are tee shirts). I backed the tee shirts with a lightweight interfacing. It made my needle skip some, though, either the fact that they were knits or the fact that they had the interfacing, I don't know. Since then I've talked to someone who does tee shirt quilts more, and they use a different interfacing, I can't remember what it was called.