gobucks7

Hi everyone, I make t-shirt rag quilts.....I just got a order for a quilt that is already giving me a headache....She wants to cut out pieces of a sweat shirt and have me sew them onto a plain t-shirt square.....Now here is my question...How can I sew the sweat shirt onto the t-shirt square and make it look professional ??? I have a very basic sewing machine....I use fusable interfacing to give the t-shirts some stiffness. Would I be able to do it to the sweat shirts?? Anyone have any suggestions ??? Thank you in advance

Barb in Louisiana

This website has a section near the bottom on incorporating sweatshirts into a t-shirt quilt. https://feltmagnet.com/textiles-sewi...iltquiltfinger

The good thing is that sweat material doesn't ravel. That gives you more creative license to use it how you want.

GailG

Barb, thanks for sharing the link. It's a really good tutorial.

Bree123

If you're doing a rag quilt, you won't want to apply any interfacing to the sweatshirt. If you do, it will show & I don't really see the purpose since you want a rag quilt to unravel a bit (although I agree with Barb that sweatshirts usually have little to no unraveling). The other thing I would do is slightly (0.2mm) increase my stitch length on those seams to help accommodate the extra thickness of the sweatshirt fleece.

quiltingshorttimer

ok--if I understand right, you are putting a sweatshirt logo on a t-shirt? Then I'd use a light weight fusible and maybe zigzag around the edges--not supertight. Then do the quilt the rest of the way you plan.