wildyard

This is the last t-shirt quilt I have on my list and I am not sorry to see them all done. I called this Be The Star (in your own life.). The man this quilt is for has certainly done that. I made a big C out of the scrappy yellow stars for the initial of his last name. I am surprised that none of the quilting shows up on the backing.

Jeanne S

Wonderful quilt!! T-shirt quilts can be a real challenge, great job on it!

GailG

Did you quilt it on a DSM? I find that task difficult. I've machine quilted the sashings and borders but had to either tie of hand quilt over the t-shirts. I've since bought a teflon presser foot but have not tried it yet.

Tweety2911

You did a great job!

QuiltnNan

nicely done

Froggiey

Looks very good. Never had the courage to do one, but love them.

joyful1

Very nice t-shirt quilt. Looks good.

gabeway

You did an amazing job!

wildyard

Hi GailG, Yes, I do all my quilts on my DSM as that's all I have to work with. Smiles. What I do is quilt the tshirt design to it's backing before I put it into the quilt top. Then all I have to do is quilt the sashings and borders for the primary quilting. Then I just secure the edges of the tshirt blocks to the backing by quilting an outline stitch around each block. I don't use batting so securing it isn't an issue for me.
For this quilt, where several t-shirts are stitched together, I used a herringbone stitch and quilted over each seam joining the t-shirts and on the outside of each t-shirt block.

GailG

Wow! wildyard, that's amazing. So let's see if I understand. Each t-shirt block has it's own backing (would that be a certain fabric or interfacing?) to which the shirt is quilted. And then another whole backing is used for the back of the entire quilt once the sashings are attached? I use fusible interfacing on the back of each t-shirt square (I iron this on before I cut out the block). The first few t-s quilts I made did not have the fusible and they were too stretchy to do the machine quilting.