Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Family T-Shirt Quilt - Finished!

Another non-standard t-shirt quilt - this one incorporates the mother's race shirts, the father's coaching shirts, and some kid shirts.


The layout on this one was easy - I used 1/10 graph paper and everything fit neatly into columns with only a tiny bit of extra needed on the bottom right.


Some of the shirts were a pain - I had to remove sweatshirt pockets, take down hems, and include sleeves and necklines in a few places to get it cut right. But I think that adds to the character.


Since a lot of the shirts were technical shirts and/or rubbery screenprinting, I knew quilting over them would be difficult. My machine tends to skip stitches on those kinds of fabric. I decided to outline the inside of each block with a line connecting them. It looks like a series of chains and gives it a nice, loose drape.

The backing is grey minky. The borders and binding are Kona Surf.

70x74"

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10 comments:

  1. GREAT quilt! The one I'm working on only has 9 t's and it's IS a bear to FMQ. You give me hope!! :-)

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  2. Love this finish, Kate! I think the non standard layout really adds to the interest. Minky will make it lovely and cuddly.

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  3. Congrats on the finish! That gray background has a nice shimmer to it.

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  4. It's like a puzzle! Love a puzzle :) Congrats on the finish!

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  5. Great finish. Have made a few myself and I always dread those rubbery logos.

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  6. Looking good! I aven´t been brave enough to quilt with jersey.

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  7. Cool quilt, getting ready to start one of these myself. Might need some help,lol!

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  8. Great quilt! I have saved some of my boys baby clothes with the idea of doing this but they are so small! Did you use a fabric stabiliser on them? Visiting from Link a finish Friday.

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  9. It's fabulous, Kate! I really want to make one of these using Life Is Good t-shirts, but I can't get my husband to give his up yet! But someday...

    Whoop whoop!!

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