Announcement
Collapse
No announcement yet.
Latest Forum Posts
Collapse
-
Please inform if there are any instructions for the outer border . It uses the template B from the Centre block, but what...
-
Your color choices are great, and your quilting is beautifully done.
-
Beautiful work Helen!
-
This is absolutely beautiful! Congrats on a wonderful job!
-
Finished quilting yesterday! This was my first time to use spray baste. I sprayed each layer outside and then assembled...
-
So Sorry! I accidentally deleted my last post trying to edit and re-add a smaller photo so it would show up, which also...
-
Hi Barbara, I’m just wondering if the running stitch around the appliqué flowers stitched prior to quilting or is it...
-
I think because 80% of the pattern was revealed in the first 4 months these last months feel like they are very slow. Agreed...
-
Done for now
-
Photo is too big. There is a post at the top of the 2024 BOM forum with help for posting photos
-
I tried to attach a picture under show your progress and it showed that I attached it but didn’t show up in my post only...
-
I finished my top by looking at the photo of the quilt and since there are no quilt police it doesn’t matter if it doesn’t...
-
Your project turned out great. I have the pattern but never got around to doing it. I do love, love
the way the pattern... -
Barbara C. You can also find them quickly by google search The Quilt Show You Tube. Click on it and then you
will... -
Love how warm and and pretty your color choices are. They look great on that bench
in the background that you see... -
Angela, You can find them here under learn, Pick a Petal, but I find them by doing a Google Search The Quilt Show You...
-
I finished this month's applique and now I'm waiting for next month's instructions....
-
For some reason I thought that you had done monthly videos for the bom, but maybe I'm wrong because I cant find them an...
- Loading...
- No more items.
Trending Forum Posts
Collapse
-
Home from the Maine Quilts show where my Color my World quilt, rename ‘Home,’ received 3 ribbons. I’m overwhelmed...
-
Well, here it is, the end of 2022, and I finally have finished my 2021 BOM quilt! I apologize that the photo is not centered....
-
Hi There,
I hope you can help me. I know I'm very late in getting to this point but life is finally allowing... -
I'm quite behind on my BOM, but now have all the tall buildings of the outer ring done. I would like to add some house...
-
Hi all.. I am behind in my Color My World and just starting the skyscrapers... Does anyone have the finished size (with...
-
My quilt is finish
-
For anyone paper piecing, is your quarter inch a tiny bit larger? When I’m trimming up the finished building, I line...
-
I decided early to do paper piecing instead of the wax…I’m more comfortable . However, I have a few questions…anyone...
-
Will we have access to the Color My World videos after December 31st? I can't seem to find info on this.
-
I am BRAND NEW to the Quilt Show and fell in love with this pattern. I downloaded all of the instructions. My concern is......
-
I'm a new-ish star member and would like to download the "Color My World" pattern...but I can't find where to...
-
See how I quilted Color My World and the added surprise quilting in Wendy’s border:
https://bbquiltmaker.b... -
Hello - I know someone has solved this problem...I seem to remember a question arising when we put the inner circle together...
-
Cap'n John showed me a new feature--you can see all the photos posted on any particular topic--at once.
Open... -
I know Barbara has reminded us to download all files prior to the end of the year. I finished my downloads today and decided...
-
Please use this topic to share your FINISHED top or quilt here. This will make it easy to see all the great quilts everyone...
-
Sunday Sew and Sews met today. Pam R. came up with a brilliant way to make One World—she used striped fabric!...
- Loading...
- No more items.
T-Shirt Quilt... HELP this is my first attempt at one.
Collapse
X
-
-
-
-
Filter
-
Administrative
new posts
-
T-Shirt Quilt... HELP this is my first attempt at one.
Let me start this by a cute funny story. My niece (who I'm also friends with on Facebook) asked me recently if I still did quilts. My thought in my brain was is she obviously hasn't been reading my posts and comments. Chuckle. 90% of my friends on Facebook are quilting buddies and that's where my interest is most of the time. I thought it was cute and funny.
I said yes. She asked me if I could do a t-shirt quilt for her husband and it was top secret. (internally I was Crap, haven't done one of those before.) But I'm game to give it a go.
So, I ask my quilting buddies on my favorite website a shout out. What do you do with the fabric of the t-shirt, because of the stretch? What is the best method and what is your favorite product to use? I'm assuming there has to be a stabilizing that needs to happen, but ones that is in place, does it accept quilting fabric sewn next to it. I want to have a little fun with the piecing too.
Any hints on quilting t-shirt fabric too, or does it handle like the same after the stabilizing?
Samples of your quilts are welcome. Ok, just bring them on because I'm in the idea stage and lets have fun with this.
Thanks,
ClaraTags: None
- IP
-
Hi Clara -
I haven't made a t-shirt quilt myself, but I've heard that a good stabilizer is fusible tricot. It controls the stretch while leaving the fabric soft and flexible. As for quilting, I've heard that they quilt up just fine but, depending on the t-shirts, you could have trouble quilting over the rubbery stuff they use for the emblems. And if you quilt over the emblems I think you need to be careful to not make mistakes because the holes won't close back up.
Nancy
- IP
-
I' ve made several...and can't add anything to Nancy's comment except that I used regular Pellon's lightest
fusible interfacing rather than tricot....it can be applied to counter the direction of stretch so that when
you join it to reg. cotton there is less chance of distortion. Prep is important to getting a good fuse...
wash, no softener...watch out for sweat and food stains...and I kept the quilting simple but dense enough
that stretching would be minimal later with use.
- IP
Comment
-
I just used the lightest weight fusible I could find and it worked perfectly well. I did quilting on the blocks, and used cotton for sashing, borders, etc. My first one was very traditional. The second one, much less so. My daughter requested a satin sheet for the backing and although I warned her it would make it slide off the bed, she wanted it anyway.
- IP
Comment
-
Clara
I used Pellon fusible knit interfacing and was happy with it. I put a old 18x24 cutting mat in the t-shirt to cut the shirt to size and then ironed on the fusible. On the quilting I used a mono poly with a meander. The quilt was for my father who was in a nursing facility after a stroke and receive there heavy duty washing and held up great. This is the only one I have made but would do it again.
- IP
Comment
-
Please inform if there are any instructions for the outer border . It uses the template B from the Centre block, but what...
-
Your color choices are great, and your quilting is beautifully done.
-
Beautiful work Helen!
-
This is absolutely beautiful! Congrats on a wonderful job!
-
Finished quilting yesterday! This was my first time to use spray baste. I sprayed each layer outside and then assembled...
-
So Sorry! I accidentally deleted my last post trying to edit and re-add a smaller photo so it would show up, which also...
-
Hi Barbara, I’m just wondering if the running stitch around the appliqué flowers stitched prior to quilting or is it...
-
I think because 80% of the pattern was revealed in the first 4 months these last months feel like they are very slow. Agreed...
-
Done for now
-
Photo is too big. There is a post at the top of the 2024 BOM forum with help for posting photos
-
I tried to attach a picture under show your progress and it showed that I attached it but didn’t show up in my post only...
-
I finished my top by looking at the photo of the quilt and since there are no quilt police it doesn’t matter if it doesn’t...
-
Your project turned out great. I have the pattern but never got around to doing it. I do love, love
the way the pattern... - Loading...
- No more items.
What's Going On
Collapse
There are currently 2727 users online. 443 members and 2284 guests.
Most users ever online was 20,162 at 02:06 PM on 02-20-2024.
Forum Stats
Collapse
Topics: 8,234
Posts: 155,225
Members: 25682
Active Members: 1,333
Welcome to our newest member, [email protected].
Latest Topics
Collapse
Trending
Collapse
There are no results that meet this criteria.
Working...
X
Comment