Originally Posted by
Val in IN
I will NEVER make another T-shirt quilt. After I got the lightweight fusible interfacing on the backs of the T-shirts, got the blocks sashed, and the borders added, I sent it to my LA'r. She called me back a few days later She got the sashings, and the borders done, but when she started quilting the T-shirt blocks, all they did was slide around and she could NOT make her LA machine quilt them. She gave the quilt back to me (absoulutely wouldn't let me pay her for the quilting she did) for me to hopefully figure out how to do the blocks, Apparently, the fusible had come loose from the backs of the blocks. NO WAY to fix them. I ended up handquilting them. Much like trying to handquilt a piece of plywood. After several bent and broken needles, and bleeding fingers, I finished it. NEVER AGAIN!!!
Ditto.
I made a 90"x90" T-shirt quilt for my son with 53 Harley-Davidson (plus other additions) blocks and will never do another. It was so big, rather than do quilting (or have it done) I used all the Harley custom buttons from my son's other shirts.
He loves it so that's all that matters.......but I am so relieved that no one else wants a T-shirt quilt.