Originally Posted by
JeriMae
After looking at that quilt website, and reading your responses, I approached my granddaughter about me making the quilt for her, since the company she was going to send it to wasn't going to quilt it, bind it, etc. She was more than happy to have Grandma do it. I've made a couple of quilts for her before, but never made a t-shirt quilt before, but think I can get through it. I'm wondering if batting should be added, or use fleece for backing, I'll let her decide. I made her a quilt for Christmas that she's taking to college for her bed. She'd like the t-shirt quilt as an extra wrap-up quilt. She goes off to college in August, so I have until then to get it made, and she can save her $$.
I've made a number of t-shirt quilts--choice of batting is strictly personal. If she is going to a "cold weather" college, then I'd probably put in bat. since they are usually pretty heavy when all put together, leaving out the bat and quilting to fleece is a good option, or you might want to use flannel between the fleece and t-shirts/stablizer. I will say that I would never (again--have done it and what a nightmare!) not use stablizer--use a very light weight, non-stretchy one and make sure that if you have t-shirts that have poly/cotton blend , that the stablizer will work--some won't because of the iron setting. Don't iron on the logos--some will melt.