I’ve finished another quilt top, but think I’ll wait a bit to quilt it. I quilt on my mom’s machine, and I think we’re going to have it set up for some embroidery for a while. We got this great ambitious idea to each make an embroidered Sunbonnet Sue quilt, and so we each have about 1000 hours of embroidery coming up.
So I’m starting on my next top. My next challenge is to turn this stack of t-shirts…
…into a quilt for my husband. I showed him several examples on the internet for him to choose between. He liked the more puzzle pieced looking ones, rather than cutting everything the same size and being uniform squares. So I’m thinking it’s going to look something like this…
There’s already been a few more edits to this as I’ve cut one shirt wrong (so far that I know about), and then wanted to spread out the colors some more. But it’s turning that huge stack of shirts into something more manageable and useful. He loves all those shirts, and now he’ll be able to see them more often, rather then them being stuck back in a box in the closet.
This will be my second t-shirt quilt. I’m using much more lightweight stabilizer this time, as the first one was pretty stiff. But I’m always stumped on how to quilt these things. I want it to be enough quilting, but I don’t think I want to quilt over the design on the shirts. Any suggestions?
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I had the same problem on the t-shirt quilt I just finished. The larger t-shirt sections were 12″x14″ so they needed some quilting in them but I didn’t want to go over the designs.
Kat
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What I did was choose thread colors that matched and sew along part of the design in each shirt. For most of the ones that had big logos I outlined the logos. A few were more complicated… in one I outlined a motorcycle’s wheels and in another I snuck in some lines of stitches along its handlebars. The quilting disappeared when done that way.
Hope that helps
I love t-shirt quilts! Your design looks awesome so I can’t wait to see the finished project. I have done two t quilts and did one in a grid and one with diagonal lines – definitely not creative but adequate and I didn’t feel like it detracted from the designs on the t-shirts.