Patched

Love it. I've got t-shirts to make one for my gd, keep putting off doing it.

Monika

Very impressive!!

Bren

Wow, great quilt. Bet it was hard to lay out and put together.

mjhaess

You did a great job...

marand

Thank you everyone for your kind comments! I enjoyed making this quilt. I believe there are over 40 T shirts in this. Her mom saved them for me for years. There was no real planning in the colors she gave me. I used all parts, front, back, sides and sleeves. I think there are 80 "blocks". It was labor intensive in the planning aspect but very doable if you take your time and just be patient. I used "Too Cool T-Shirts", a book that walked me through the process.I read the book several times and practiced sewing on parts of the various t shirts. I used lots of graph paper, colored pencils and tape to plan as suggested in the book. It took me HOURS to place the shirts in a way that I liked. I followed the directions with one exception. I used fusible on each shirt (they are adamant in the book not to do this)--It was much easier for me to handle the fabric and since the shirts were all different fabrics, I found it made it more stable. (I practiced both ways).The long arm quilter agreed. I bound it myself. The book was well worth the purchase. I needed 10 different sized plexiglass templates (which my husband made for me) to frame the logos and cut the shirts. All blocks are multiples of 4 so that they would be able to fit like a puzzle.

klswift

I am amazed that this is your first T-shirt quilt. This is outstanding! No sashing, varied sizes and no specific rows - I don't think you know how difficult what you did was! What a lucky girl to have such a very wonderful auntie!!!!

marand

<3Thank you! I learned so much..

MargeD

What a great variety of T-shirts, love the Boston Strong one.

sheilar

Great quilt, love the layout!!

ontheriver

Awesome, love the layout.