Originally Posted by
cricket_iscute
For the big t-shirt quilt, I would suggest quilting each block by itself, all three layers. Then join rows and columns with thin sashing strips. There are plenty of tutorials on the internet.
I've done this on a previous tee shirt quilt and it worked. I'm debating between that technique here or finishing the top as once piece then hiring out a longarmer.
Being a computer guy by day, I hit on a solution for the problem of having no space big enough to lay out the whole top.
I've got a setup for photographing the squares as I finish them, and I'm loading them into an image editor as layers to lay them out digitally. Like so: