I have to make a pillow from a T shirt. What kind of iron on stabilizer should I use? What do you recommend and can you offer any other advise?
The pillow will be a ring pillow for a wedding and the T has the name of the grooms college on it. Thanks! |
Not to sure about that but your idea is great. Have'nt worked with any T-shirts.
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Originally Posted by sewnsewer2
I have to make a pillow from a T shirt. What kind of iron on stabilizer should I use? What do you recommend and can you offer any other advise?
The pillow will be a ring pillow for a wedding and the T has the name of the grooms college on it. Thanks! |
I'd really be interested to hear more feedback about this too. I bought some inexpensive t-shirts one time, I should say, cheap, was being nice. They started coming apart at the seams, anyway, the design on them is so cute, would make great pillows for grands to use when here, for moving watching etc.
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What if you used Lite Heat N Bond and put a backing onto the shirt (tshirt-heatnbond-fabric). Then it would make it a bit more stable to sew. Maybe??
You could try it out on an old tshirt to see if it works. |
Thanks everyone.
Do you think fusible fleece will work? I'm going to play with an old T and see if it works. I've never done this before and I know T's are a bear to sew because of the stretch. |
I had to fuse mine to fabric so it was more stable. It was my second quilt and I used too heavy of heat and bond and it was soooo hard to quilt. Learned to use light stuff.
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A gal at work just finished a t-shirt quilt. 'll ask her. She has used steam-a-seam before. I think a lot depends on how stiff (or not) you want the feel. Good idea to test on a sample piece.
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Originally Posted by sewnsewer2
I have to make a pillow from a T shirt. What kind of iron on stabilizer should I use? What do you recommend and can you offer any other advise?
The pillow will be a ring pillow for a wedding and the T has the name of the grooms college on it. Thanks! |
I tried the fleece, too stiff, so I tried some french fuse I got from Hancock awhile back and that was much better.
I haven't made it yet, still testing, but I'll post it when done. |
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