T-shirt Quilt
 

We have been thinking about doing a tshirt quilt from our old shirts. I have heard some mixed reviews on how these turn out. Has anyone here tried them? Was it successful? Downsides?

i have made lots of them for graduation presents .....the kids love them ....they go together rather easy ...main thing that i found is to stabilize the shirts ,fuse-on something [there are a few options ] i tend to use a solid around the shirts and do bold borders ...that makes the shirts pop ......good luck

test the stabilizers first to make sure its what you want.. theres a few out there.. some are thin and some are thick.. some are hard to sew thru as well.. so test first on scrap shirts..

I have a small tshirt quilt business. I use the too cool tshirt method www.toocooltshirtquilts.com (I have no affiliation with them) except that I back my t shirts with Pellon 906F Its just enough to make them stable yet thin enough as not too create a lot of bulk. Hope this helps

I've made a few of them for customers - I wear out all my own T shirts! - and I have always backed the shirts with lightweight fusible. I do sashing around the shirts, and then an outer border around the outer layer of sashing (so the shirts are individually framed, and then the whole center is framed as well). I quilt each shirt with its own unique pattern and try to incorporate symbols, or elements that fit with the shirt's appearance, like a sports team's logo or mascot, or the motto of a university.

Have fun!

Alison

I made a t-shirt quilt after my brother passed away, and gave it to my sister. Our brother had special needs, and for many years had attended an adult summer camp--and had t-shirts from every session, as well as many from travel, etc. I backed the logos with fusible light-weight interfacing and filled in irregular shapes (he also had logos from Special Olympics golf and bowling tournaments, etc.) with machine embroidery as appropriate.

I sashed, bordered, backed and bound the quilt with a red/maroon flannel, his favorite color, and tied it with maroon perle cotton. It was very special to all of us.

I'm planning on doing one out of lucky brand clothing shirts from my husband. Hes worse than me with clothes!

In the upper right corner on this site, enter T-shirt quilts in the white box and then click advance search. Make the selections that you want. Usually I click on POSTS. There you will find many pictures of T-shirt quilts to help inspire you. Just realize they become quite heavy the larger you make them. Good Luck !!

I'm with charjones57...I also use Pellon 906F on the T-shirt quilts I make. Great stabilizer and easy to work with, both piecing and longarm quilting.

Christine

I quilt the shirt panels in sections and put them together with sashing. This seems to make the heavy quilt easier to handle.