Need some help..t-shirt rag quilts
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Need some help..t-shirt rag quilts
Hi everyone, I make t-shirt rag quilts.....I just got a order for a quilt that is already giving me a headache....She wants to cut out pieces of a sweat shirt and have me sew them onto a plain t-shirt square.....Now here is my question...How can I sew the sweat shirt onto the t-shirt square and make it look professional ??? I have a very basic sewing machine....I use fusable interfacing to give the t-shirts some stiffness. Would I be able to do it to the sweat shirts?? Anyone have any suggestions ??? Thank you in advance
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This website has a section near the bottom on incorporating sweatshirts into a t-shirt quilt. https://feltmagnet.com/textiles-sewi...iltquiltfinger
The good thing is that sweat material doesn't ravel. That gives you more creative license to use it how you want.
The good thing is that sweat material doesn't ravel. That gives you more creative license to use it how you want.
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If you're doing a rag quilt, you won't want to apply any interfacing to the sweatshirt. If you do, it will show & I don't really see the purpose since you want a rag quilt to unravel a bit (although I agree with Barb that sweatshirts usually have little to no unraveling). The other thing I would do is slightly (0.2mm) increase my stitch length on those seams to help accommodate the extra thickness of the sweatshirt fleece.
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ok--if I understand right, you are putting a sweatshirt logo on a t-shirt? Then I'd use a light weight fusible and maybe zigzag around the edges--not supertight. Then do the quilt the rest of the way you plan.
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