purrfectbarb

Ok, ordered the Crazy Eights pattern....wish me luck...I'll try to post a picture when and if it ever gets done.. :roll:

azdesertrat

I actually bought a bolt of lightwieght fusible stabilizer at Joanns,cuz she suggested 7 yards to make the quilt.I do believe it was Pellon,plus I had 40% off coupon .What we did in class is to put the shirt on the "sticky" side and the placed a very wet cloth on top of the logo and "pressed" not iron until the wet cloth was completely dry.what I used for my wet cloth was the back part of one of the t shirts.it worked really well,but is very time consuming.I had already cut out my logos to the size that I wanted,but you actually are not suppose to cut until the stabilizer on fused to the shirt because of the stretching,I was very lucky

azdesertrat

So here is the picture of the t shirt quilt,it is shirts from the Gaslight theatre here in town they do live plays every night and weekends,they are aesome and funny,if you ever come to tucson plan ahead and get tickets you won't be disappointed i guarantee it

ammam

My daughter has me make quilts out of her kids receiving blankets after they are too old to need them. Maybe you could suggest this to her?

sharon b

i am also curious about the Crazy 8 and the lonk isn't working :?

Ok found a working link, sorry

http://www.createforless.com/Bits+n+...utm_medium=cse

May in Jersey

Glad you brought this subject as I picked up several good ideas.

About a year and a half ago one of my niece in laws told me she'd like to make a quilt from her daugther's first year clothes, daughter was about 6 months old at the time. Asked niece if she knew how to sew or had a sewing machine, said her mother had a machine. Little girl - such a cutie, is over 2 now but no mention of the quilt from niece. From now til the end of the year is a busy time for me but think I'll bring it up when I see the family around Christmas time. Little problem is that neice lives in Brooklyn, NY and I live in Jersey, and neice works full time. If she's really interested in making a quilt we'll find someway to make time for some sewing and quilting instructios and, more importanly, what parts of the clothes she wants to use and what she invisions the quilt to look like. May in Jersey

purrfectbarb

This is beautiful!

rosequilts

Stabalize each part of the garment before cutting as if you were doing a T shirt quilt. Use cotton for borders around each piece in a size that is needed to make rows. Good luck

kathyk

I have made several t-shirt quilts, especially for high school grads. Using a fusible interfacing is key--but watch out when applying an iron around silk screened logos--they can melt. I have done plain squares, and fancier pieced blocks which used the t-shirt piece as the center (log cabin variations, square-in-a-square etc). It's also fun to select fabrics for your borders and sashings which have some significance to the person receiving the quilt....like sports or music themes or in your case baby items. Hint for shirts which have the logos printed too high on the chest to make it the center of a square, piece on part of the lower shirt above the logo, then cut to your selected size (kind of like splicing in a short piece of wallpaper). Once it's quilted you'll never see the seam. Above all, have fun, and enjoy making the memories of your grandchild!

crazylady

I hope this helps...

http://www.craftastical.com/2009/08/...rom-start.html

I've been saving clothes for my 4 girls for a long time and keeping my eye out for direction for what I want to do. This is the best tutorial I've seen on the topic. She uses flannel to stablize. I'll still use lightweight fusible interfacing. But the rest, I'll do very similar to what she's done.

Lori