So nice, you did great! You will always look at that particular quilt as your FIRST. Very, very nice.

Your first quilt is always a huge accomplishment. Nice job!

Congrats! Great Looking Quilt!

Thanks all. I hope it looks good after I am done quilting and binding it.

I am a runner and I love your quilt! You did a great job, and your running friend will love it. I wouldn't quilt through the pictures either, but I have never made a t-shirt quilt, so I am not really one to give advice on that. There are other experts here who can advice you on that. I just wanted to say "Good job!!"

Dina

Hi Chris!!!! Louisiana Cajun girl here too! I haven't made a tshirt quilt yet, so I watch everyone's comments so WHEN I do one, hopefully I won't have too many trials!!!! My daughter is in Dallas....not sure where Spring is......

(I am from Ville Platte!)

Good luck!

I have done several T-shirt quilts and quilted on my domestic sewing machine. I usually stabalize the quilt sandwich by stiching in the ditch. Then I go back and quilt the blocks. I have used both invisible thread in the top and a varigated thread. I stitch various background designs in each block (meandering, echo quilting, vines and leaves , waves etc.). I will usully outline the block design and sometimes stitch within the design itself (lines of a basketball, around letters, etc). When stitiching in the design itself, the key is to go slow. The design itself sometimes has a tendency to grab your needle.

Here is alink to one of the ones I have done.

http://www.quiltingboard.com/main-f1...ml#post4790296

I agree! I have done several T-shirt quilts, and the only thing I would add to lakekids' comments is that certain types of plastic-feeling printed patterns on T-shirts always grab my needle and break my thread, but that even the densest pattern has a few areas where the original T-shirt color shows through, and these areas are fine to quilt in. I have stabilized many a large design by doing stipple stitching within these smaller areas.

I think your quilt is very handsome! Your friend is going to love it.

Alison

ChrisD, welcome from another Texan! I'd do like some of the others, stitch in the ditch around each block & just do a stipple around the designs to anchor them, without going thru the designs.