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[dawniedawn67]

When my dad passed away (back in 2008 - ) I told my mom I would make a quilt for her out of some of his t-shirts.

I plan on getting started on it soon, but was thinking - it might be hard to sew the jersey fabrics to each other. Should I sew them to some type of backing first?

I told her to save 12 shirts, so I'll probably do a lap quilt of 4 rows, 6 squares per row - alternating t=shirt and plain fabric.

Obviously I don't do this sort of thing, so I apologize if my terminolgy is confusing.

[beli]

I don't quilt.. but the most logical thing would be to have some kind of backing.

[dawniedawn67]

I don't quilt.. but the most logical thing would be to have some kind of backing.

Yeah, I never have, but I think the biggest challenge will be sewing the jersey material.

I'm not going for anything fancy.

[mk_378]

There are quilting shops where you can rent time on a huge sewing machine. If there's one of those in your town, someone there would likely know what you should do.

[ICANHASMUNY?]

When my dad passed away (back in 2008 - ) I told my mom I would make a quilt for her out of some of his t-shirts.

I plan on getting started on it soon, but was thinking - it might be hard to sew the jersey fabrics to each other. Should I sew them to some type of backing first?

I told her to save 12 shirts, so I'll probably do a lap quilt of 4 rows, 6 squares per row - alternating t=shirt and plain fabric.

Obviously I don't do this sort of thing, so I apologize if my terminolgy is confusing.

I"ve seesn a quilt made of long diagonal stripes about 1/2 wide with alternating colors that was pretty cool - why do squares?

[Fataliya]

TxQuiltGirl is a quilting guru, so hopefully she can chime in.

I told my Mom to save some of my Grandma's shirts so we could make a quilt when she comes out here. GMTA!

[dawniedawn67]

I"ve seesn a quilt made of long diagonal stripes about 1/2 wide with alternating colors that was pretty cool - why do squares?

My dad loved shirts with pictures of scenery or wildlife on them - plus he had a few from other countries they'd visited. My thought was to have pictures be the squares.

[illinoisfatbottomgirl]

My friend used these instructions to make one. She used Wonder Under as the backing.




Tshirt Quilt

[TxQuiltGirl]

Use a stabilizer - go to JoAnn's and someone there can tell you what will work best for t-shirts. You need to stabilize the squares using Wonder Under or something similar, as someone has already suggested.

DO NOT DO NOT DO NOT go using some random polyester batting and "stuff" your quilt as the instructions in that link say. Use a roll batting - there's no stuffing involved.

If you've never made a quilt before, you're going to find working with jersey knit to be extremely frustrating as a "first quilt" but that's up to you. It's a lot of work - I've made one and swore never to do it again. But if you're determined to do it, order a book like this.

Good luck.

[dawniedawn67]

Use a stabilizer - go to JoAnn's and someone there can tell you what will work best for t-shirts. You need to stabilize the squares using Wonder Under or something similar, as someone has already suggested.

DO NOT DO NOT DO NOT go using some random polyester batting and "stuff" your quilt as the instructions in that link say. Use a roll batting - there's no stuffing involved.

If you've never made a quilt before, you're going to find working with jersey knit to be extremely frustrating as a "first quilt" but that's up to you. It's a lot of work - I've made one and swore never to do it again. But if you're determined to do it, order a book like this.

Good luck.

Thank you Quilty!!