Playing with layout - opinions please
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I can see that I'm really bucking a trend here. the thought process I'm using is that it give the user something to search for or discover while cuddled in the quilt. My daughter certainly likes hers. I shall await the verdict from the person I am making the quilt for. I'm told she and the actual recipient are rather eclectic, "free-thinkers" and she had already given me written permission to use my artistic vision. And she has seen the one I made my daughter.
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I can see that I'm really bucking a trend here. the thought process I'm using is that it give the user something to search for or discover while cuddled in the quilt. My daughter certainly likes hers. I shall await the verdict from the person I am making the quilt for. I'm told she and the actual recipient are rather eclectic, "free-thinkers" and she had already given me written permission to use my artistic vision. And she has seen the one I made my daughter.
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Well I have heard via my daughter that the recipient of this quilt would like it to have sashing. So be it.
She thinks it may become a wall hanging. It's going to work about about 60" x 72" so we shall see. Still figure on doing something similar to my favourite layout so picture it with sashing ...
She thinks it may become a wall hanging. It's going to work about about 60" x 72" so we shall see. Still figure on doing something similar to my favourite layout so picture it with sashing ...
#15
I don't like all the different directions, either. The whole point of a T shirt quilt is to read the shirts. I'd have to put them all going in the same way, so the quilt has a definite top and bottom. Size of blocks, sashings, prints, all these are optional. But the direction of the shirt writing is non-negotiable, IMO... (And it's just that... an opinion!)
#16
I prefer to have all the shirt to be in the same direction with the designs readable from the bottom of the bed. When I have different sizes of t-shirt I measure the larges design and an inch or two to the measurements top and bottom and then I make all my blocks that size. Sometimes I will add two small one with sashing in between and even on the sides to make a block that is the same as the larger ones.
I cut filler pieces out of t-shirt fabric I iron stabilizer on some of the backs of the shirts to extends the blocks to the size I need.
I cut filler pieces out of t-shirt fabric I iron stabilizer on some of the backs of the shirts to extends the blocks to the size I need.
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I prefer to have all the shirt to be in the same direction with the designs readable from the bottom of the bed. When I have different sizes of t-shirt I measure the larges design and an inch or two to the measurements top and bottom and then I make all my blocks that size. Sometimes I will add two small one with sashing in between and even on the sides to make a block that is the same as the larger ones.
I cut filler pieces out of t-shirt fabric I iron stabilizer on some of the backs of the shirts to extends the blocks to the size I need.
I cut filler pieces out of t-shirt fabric I iron stabilizer on some of the backs of the shirts to extends the blocks to the size I need.
#19
I just finished one for a friend. I didn't use sashing, and blocks were different sizes and put together like a puzzle, did have to add some fillers to make it a rectangle. I did have it one directional. There are so many ways to make these- so have fun with it.
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