T Shirt quilt question
 

I have my goddaughter's t shirts that I am making into a quilt. ON some of them the sayings are very small which I thought I could piece in different spots once I start laying out the blocks. My question is have you used some of the extra fabric that you cut off and add to smaller block to make them bigger or should I use cotton in these extra spaces. I did buy some cotton for sashing. All of the t shirts have an interfacing on the backs so they don't stretch. I would do that to the plain pieces too. What are some of your thoughts for those of you who have made t shirt quilts. Also, how have you quilted them? SID or overall? Thanks for your ideas.

I'm working on a t quilt now, I plan to use the pockets with small print as keystones in the 4 corners.

I made a t-shirt quilt for my son from is running shirts. I didn't use smaller blocks but did have it quilted overall. It was great as the digitized pattern was running shoes. Looked very nice and he loved it!

When I are the last one and some were smaller I piece d them into 4 patch or something similar until it made the correct size block. I didn't want to leave anything out! Also appliqued real small ones onto others if there were big blank spots .

I made a t shirt quilt for my DH , just pieced with shadow and background fabrics . then put it together like a puzzle and added background fabric where needed.

I pieced mine with both extra pieces of thirt and with cotton. I stabilized the cotton with the same fusible I used on the shirts to keep everything the same feel and thickness.

When I fuse the t-shirts to the stabilize I will use the entire length of the shirt so I will have extra that I can use for adding to smaller designs. I sometime us a couple little designs with a strip in between and even on the sides to get it the size I need.

Lin- love how you shadowed the shirts! I used cotton when i enlarged the small ones, never thought to use, some extra t shirts. hmmmmm

I love the shadow box effect on this quilt!

lin ...great quilt ...the last one i did had a bunch of small designs ....i made 3 mini quilts sewed them together then made a row of larger print shirts to flank both sides

I make t-shirt quilts as a small side business. I modified the Too Cool T-shirt method by adding blocks of fabric in between. You can purchase the too cool book at http://www.toocooltshirtquilts.com/ (I have no affiliation with Too Cool). They don't add backing to their t-shirts but I do. I use 906-F. I FMQ the entire top but I don't stitch over the logo itself. Using their random block method it is easier to incorporate odd sized logos into the quilt. Pic of my work attached. Good luck to you!

I also use the Too Cool T-shirt method. I cut the T-shirts based on the size of the logo on the shirt. The Too Cool T-shirt method uses sizes in increments of 4 inches ( cut 4 1/2 x 4 1/2, 4 1/2 x 8 1/2, etc) up to 16 1/2 x 16 1/2. I use leftover T-shirt fabric to fill in the 'holes' (since not all blocks are the same size). Here is one that I did. This quilt is queen size. The red rectangle was left over T-shirt fabric with no logo. I do NOT use interfacing to back the T-shirts.

thanks for everyone's input. The pics of the quilts are outstanding. They have given me some great ideas.

If I've got a bunch of smaller ones, I'll take the BACK of one of the shirts that I don't use (and doesn't have a logo) and sew the smaller ones on it. Keeps all the blocks the t-shirt fabric.

I also make four patches out of the extra pieces. Also didn't want to waste anything.

Do you have enough small ones to make into an actual quilt block? If not mix them with the cottons to balance and finish the block (maybe a four patch or split rail or even a log cabin). And I would interface the cotton to balance out the weight.

Joyce that is what I was thinking of doing with the extra pieces. A member in my guild did a lecture last year and she suggested either doing horizontal or diagonal rows of the the blocks. i guess I don't want it so structured. I'll post once I get going with them. Thanks to all.