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Today I'm cutting up the t-shirts for my Slipknot quilt. I should of done it yesterday, but I volunteered for Project Christmas and helped wrap presents for 1100 children in the area and by the time I got back I was too tired to quilt. I'm currently in the process of pressing and ironing the wrinkles before I go cut them and iron interfacing to them.
I'm scared. With a lot of the shirts, in order to get a 16.5" square I'm just a hair off the sleeve and collar seams. It looks like it'd be so easy to cut too short. Its not like I can go out and buy another shirt if I mess up---don't have the money until the 23rd and I'm an hour away from the nearest Hot Topic and I don't drive. But I have ten days left til Christmas to finish this thing and I already put in too much funds and effort---I can't chicken out now! I'm gonna need some of the board's "you can do it!" encouragement. |
If you cut them too small, or can't get a big enough piece from the shirt you can use sashing around the block to make them all the same size. That's what a lot of my friends do with their t-shirt quilts, the t-shirt part may be different sizes but they make the block even sized by using sashing.
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I've never done one of those but you sound like you have it all under control. Follow your vision. Don't stress, you'll do just fine. Share pics when you can.
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You can do it.
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my granddaughter brought me a sack of shirts for a quilt. i've never done a t-shirt quilt before. i'm sorta dreading it.
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Of course you can! I bet you managed through even more difficulties along yr life :wink:
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Best of luck! Putting sashing around it sounds like a good idea.
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think positive!
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This is a piece of cake. You can do it. It will be so fun to see when your done. Maybe you can do the squares 16 inched instead of 16.5. just a thought
Blessing, Lovequilts |
Maybe your quilt could be smaller than you planned. Come on girl, you are coming into the finish line. Yeah!!!!! ;)
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