How to Lay Out T-Shirt Quilts
People buy T-shirts to support their favorite sports teams or schools, commemorate a special event or just because they like the pictures, quotations and logos on them. If you have a stash or T-shirts you don't wear any more, but you just can't seem to part with them, cut out the significant part of the T-shirts and make a memories quilt.
Things You'll Need
- 12.5 inch by 12.5 inch cardboard or plastic template
- Tailor's chalk
- Rotary cutter and mat or scissors
- Fusible interfacing
- Iron
Instructions
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Place the template over the logo or printing on the T-shirt and draw around it with the tailor's chalk.
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Cut the marked square out of the T-shirt. Repeat with as many T-shirts as you want to use. As an optional step, cut plain squares from the backs of the T shirts and alternate them with the printed squares.
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Cut a 12.5-inch-by-12.5-inch square of fusible interfacing for each T-shirt square.
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Lay the T-shirt square right-side down on a padded flat surface. Place the fusible side of the interfacing face down on the T-shirt square, and press with a hot steam iron according to manufacturers directions to fuse it to the T-shirt square. This step is optional, but it makes sewing the knitted fabric easier.
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Lay the squares out in rows and columns. Arrange them in a pleasing design, either using all printed squares or alternating with plain squares cut from the T-shirt backs.
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Sew the squares together using a 1/4-inch seams. Sew the blocks together into rows, and then sew the rows together, carefully lining up the seams in each row.
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Tips & Warnings
Use any size template you want. If all the T-shirts are big you may want to use a larger template, but if you have some small children's sizes the template may need to be smaller. Cut all the squares the same size.
References
- Photo Credit Roger Weber/Digital Vision/Getty Images
