Originally Posted by
Cherylsea
My friend does king quilts and this is what she does: She puts together a row and quilts it (using her embroidery machine). Then she adds the next row and quilts that. Then the next. That way you are only working on one row at a time and the bulk is to your left not under the machine. She has done 4 quilts this way.
otherwise, doing it in quarters may be the easiest.
Cherylsea, may I clarify something with you? Not to be difficult here (I am coming from a computer geek background), but are you describing rows that are horizontal or columns that are vertical? If you are describing vertical columns, it seems like a brilliant suggestion, and I thank you for it.
For the big t-shirt quilt, I would suggest quilting each block by itself, all three layers. Then join rows and columns with thin sashing strips. There are plenty of tutorials on the internet.