jenjenn711
01-16-2011, 06:31 AM
Yesterday my husband and I made a deal: I could take all those t-shirts he NEVER wears out of his chest of drawers if I made them into a quilt. I am thrilled because this is going to make putting laundry away MUCH easier!
But about this quilt. Has anyone here made one? My mom did one for my brother, but she is a quilter. She framed the squares of t-shirt in cotton quilting fabric and fused some sort of stabilizer to the reverse side of the jersey so it wouldn't be stretchy and would hold up better and look nicer. It turned out looking very professional, but I think one of the nicest things about a t-shirt is the softness, and some of that will be lost if I do this her way.
Anyone ever done one another way? Not worried so much about stretchiness and tried to keep the softness? So far I am leaning toward doing a "ragtime quilt" kind of like this one: http://www.make-baby-stuff.com/ragtime-quilt-for-baby-girl.html. I was thinking of making the top layer t-shirt squares with images on them, the middle layer cotton flannel, and the bottom layer the plain fabric from t-shirts. The "rag" part would probably do better on the backside, so it doesn't distract from the t-shirt logos. I guess my main concern is that I don't want the t-shirts to stretch out excessively over time and hang unattractively from the flannel.
What do you think?
But about this quilt. Has anyone here made one? My mom did one for my brother, but she is a quilter. She framed the squares of t-shirt in cotton quilting fabric and fused some sort of stabilizer to the reverse side of the jersey so it wouldn't be stretchy and would hold up better and look nicer. It turned out looking very professional, but I think one of the nicest things about a t-shirt is the softness, and some of that will be lost if I do this her way.
Anyone ever done one another way? Not worried so much about stretchiness and tried to keep the softness? So far I am leaning toward doing a "ragtime quilt" kind of like this one: http://www.make-baby-stuff.com/ragtime-quilt-for-baby-girl.html. I was thinking of making the top layer t-shirt squares with images on them, the middle layer cotton flannel, and the bottom layer the plain fabric from t-shirts. The "rag" part would probably do better on the backside, so it doesn't distract from the t-shirt logos. I guess my main concern is that I don't want the t-shirts to stretch out excessively over time and hang unattractively from the flannel.
What do you think?