How to Make a Harley T-Shirt Quilt

You may have collected a lot of Harley Davidson Motorcycle T-shirts over the years from going to all the rallies. Don’t sell them at a garage sale or throw them away. Instead, make a quilt out of them. Your memories will be preserved and this will be a conversation piece in your home.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Harley T-shirts, enough to make a good sized quilt
• Rotary cutter
• Ruler
• Fusible stabilizer (optional)
• Batting, a little larger than finished quilt top
• Fabric for quilt back and binding
• Sewing machine
• Matching thread
• Quilting pins
• Quilting Thread or yarn

1. Figure out which design on your t-shirts is the largest. Cut around the design leaving about 1 to 2 inches on the outside of the design. This is the size you will use for cutting out all the designs.

2. Iron on fusible stabilizer to the back of the designs. This will help prevent rolling of edges but is not required. Sew together all the cut out designs in a pattern you like.

3. Cut out back of quilt from chosen fabric. Cut it about 2 inches bigger than the finished top, all the way around.

4. Layer top of quilt, batting and backing together and pin.

5. Quilt all layers on a sewing machine, or tie layers together in intervals using yarn. You can even take it to someone who has a quilting machine or to a quilt shop and they can quilt it for you.

6. Trim backing and batting to size of quilt top and add binding.

Tips & Warnings

• Have fun with your quilt and don't try to be a perfectionist.
• Use cotton fabric for the backing and binding.
• Use a thin batting.
• You can add borders to the top if you wish, before putting the layers together.
• Add a fabric label to your quilt back if you want to keep a record of information about the quilt.
• If someone quilts it for you they will not trim it and add the binding.
• Don't make the quilt too large as this quilt will be heavy because of the T-shirt material used.