How to Prepare T-Shirts To Make A Quilt

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By Amy Laine
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Recycle old t-shirts to make one of a kind quilts with a personal touch. T-shirt quilts can be designed in a thousand ways as long as the t-shirts used are prepared right. Learn how to prepare t-shirts to be used as quilt blocks.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

Old t-shirts.
Interfacing material for quilts.

Step 1

Wash t-shirts before starting the quilt. This will prevent shirt that never been worn from bleeding and clean up dust on old shirts that may prevent the shirt from sticking to backing. Shirts may need to be ironed to easier to work with.
Step 2

Separate the front and back of the t-shirts by cutting down the seams. Cut carefully around logos or other areas of a shirt you wish to feature on the quilt.
Step 3

Cut the t-shirts to the block shapes you are wanting. The shapes should be larger then needed to account for shrinkage.
Step 4

Use interfacing materiel found a craft and quilt stores to make the t-shirt material more usable. Cut the interfacing material to the shapes of you t-shirt blocks.
Step 5

Place quilt blocks wrong side up. Place the matching interfacing shape on top and continue fusing them in place by following manufacturer's instruction.
Step 6

Let the quilt blocks before assembling.

Comments

MeganK said

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on 1/9/2009 Thanks for the helpful info!

AllFYB said

on 12/31/2008 Great Tips for making T-Shirts a better quilting material. Thanks

valarie7979 said

on 12/19/2008 Great idea, especially for those who have teenagers that are constantly getting new TShirts. (Oh Mom, it's too cute to throw it away, but I don't want to wear it anymore!) Thanks.