Originally Posted by Val in IN
Hand quilting son's t-shirt quilt, UGH. I sent it out to be LA'd but she called me and said that all she could do was the sashing and the borders. Apparently, the fusible interfacing on the back of the t-shirts blocks didn't stay fused and when she tried to quilt them on her LA, they started to slide and pucker. So I got the quilt back with the sashings and borders quilted and now I'm hand quilting the blocks. Like sewing through plywood. I don't recommend it (LOL). She didn't charge me for the quilting she did, so I can't complain about that. Needless to say, I will NEVER do another t-shirt quilt!! :|
I have made many t-shirt quilts. There was only 1 that I tied, but the rest I quilting on my machine. You have to do a block at a time in order to get a different quilt pattern for each block, but they turned out very nice and my clients loved the variety of the quilting. I can't imagine trying to hand quilt a t-shirt quilt. Good luck.