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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Erica's T-shirt Quilt #1

Finished quilt

      I had the daughter of a friend of mine reach out to me to make her a couple of t-shirt quilts. I had done part of one from her high school t-shirts awhile ago and now she had some college t-shirts and work t-shirts.  The first is from her college t-shirts.  She wanted fabric in between the t-shirts and also wanted it to be quilted and have a binding.  

General idea for layout

      My first step is to cut the t-shirts apart and then get a general idea for a layout.  There were several shirts that had only a small chest logo, so I combined those together to make a block for one column.  I found some great batik fabric at JoAnn's for the sashing and a coordinating solid for the backing. 

Three small logos combined

     After determining the general layout, I fused interfacing to the backs of the t-shirts to stabilize them and then cut them to size.  For some of the blocks, I used both the front and the back to make a larger block.  
Back with the quilting pattern

     After assembling the front, I took it to a quilter for her to do a meandering stitch to hold the layers together.  I then stitched the binding to the back, brought it around to the front and top-stitched it in place.

Binding detail



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