Monday, January 16, 2012

T-shirt Quilt Day One


At first, I considered writing a step by step instruction for the quilt. Then I stopped drinking the overambitious Kool-Aid. While I have made quilts before (ten years ago), I am NO expert. Please refer to a quilting book as I am or taking a class before starting your own project. I will be posting pictures of my progress with short explanations. 


So many t-shirts! It will be Aggietastic. 


Wash them all before starting your project. It will help prevent shrinkage.


Good quilting tools are an investment...or at least that is what I have been telling myself to swallow the sticker shock. 


My blocks at 15x15 and therefore will end up being 14.5x14.5 when I take the seam allowances into account. 


I was a little sad cutting up the shirts.


One of thirty shirt squares 


Yea the squares are cut!

I think the 15x15 squares turned out fairly well. I also cut out 7.5x7.5 squares for smaller logos or for some of the t-shirt's sleeves. I cut out eight of those squares and will turn those into two blocks. Next step, iron on the fabric stabilizers so the t-shirts will be less stretchy. 


2 comments:

  1. Hey dont leave this nieve quilter hanging...did you finish this lol...susan

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  2. So sorry! I've been updating my other blog which is at jdandje.blogspot.com. There is the finished product though I slacked on keep a blow by blow of the construction. I'll try and do a better job with my current t-shirt project.

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