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Old 11-16-2017, 08:55 AM
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ptquilts
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Default Two firsts for me..

...after quilting for over 35 years. Making 2 T-shirt quilts for a man who lost one of his sons to suicide many years ago, he wants a quilt for each of his other kids.

Also seriously using a rotary cutter for the first time!! As I mostly work with scraps I always found scissors better. Plus I am very accident prone!! But for the shirts I taped two smaller cutting mats together and put them on a big piece of cardboard on the floor. Another cutting mat I have is exactly 13" x 13" and I am using that as a template. I had accumulated about 4 rotary cutters over the years and the first one I picked up, an Olfa, is working great. I am being very careful and not rushing.

Any tips on Tshirt quilts will be appreciated. I do have the iron on interfacing to use. Thank heavens I am just making the tops, very basic. Gotta get them done by the end of the month as a machine quilting date has already been set.
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