I'm making a t-shirt quilt using my old toddler and childhood quilts. Because some of the t-shirts are quite small, there was no way to trim all the t-shirts to the same size. I've decided to fit each of the t-shirts into either 15x15 or 14x14 squares (14x14 is looking like the way I want to go). I want to expand upon the t-shirts by adding blocks and rectangles. But I want these added seams to line up. Like in these pictures:
http://www.connectingthreads.com/cfT...%20DeLeonardis
(the quilt on the left, with the pink, is the general look I am going for).
Another example:
http://www.connectingthreads.com/cfT...%20DeLeonardis
(the one on the right with the orange).
You can see what I mean, in that the t-shirts are not the same size, but the added blocks and such all line up together nicely. If I had quilt software, this would likely be a lot easier, but I don't. The other issue is while I tried to keep all my t-shirts cut at either half or whole inches, some are 1/4 and 3/4. A few of these I could potentially trim down more, but some were so small to start with that I had just about enough for the seam allowance.
Where I am now:
I've laid out the t-shirts in the general arrangement I want them to be in.
I've measured each t-shirt and drew a basic table and filled the measurements.
I made a large grid with graph paper that I've split into 14x14 blocks and have started filling in t-shirts, but things just don't seem to be coming together well.
I'll attach a picture of both the table I made and the t-shirt layout. If anyone has any suggestions on how to tackle this without going insane, (if it's even possible) I would greatly appreciate it!
Originally I was going to start by adding a 1" border of different fabrics to each t-shirt, but as I picked bright, fun colors I figured this would make it too busy, and I'd still have to grid the rest of it out anyways...
