T-Shirt Quilt Ideas
The T-shirt has become a ubiquitous item of clothing. We use them to show support for teams, as holiday souvenirs, to share jokes or to show what bands we like. Making T-shirt quilts is a great way to recycle T-shirts. The quilts are functional, stylish and lasting keepsakes.
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Thematic
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Use T-shirts that have something in common to create a themed T-shirt quilt. This could be made from shirts featuring a favorite musical group, a sports team or particular sport, or shirts that all come from a certain past era in a life. Campus T-shirts, with the logos of different groups, sports teams and college logos are a good example of grouping shirts thematically. You could also make a quilt from a collection of shirts with joke logos and text.
Memory Quilts
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Memory quilts make great gifts and keepsakes. If you save your children's old favorite T-shirts, providing they are not too worn out, you can recycle their past into a quilt. Keep T-shirts with images of their favorite TV shows and bands on them, too. These quilts can be further personalized by using photos printed onto iron-on transfer paper and transferred to the white backs of T-shirts to recall events from the past.
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Travels
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T-shirts make a cost effective and practical souvenir when traveling, and many people pick one up when they visit a new town or country. Often these shirts are put away and seldom worn. Making a T-shirt quilt from these souvenirs means that the memories of your travels are kept fresh, and the pile of unworn T-shirts goes down.
Not Just Slogans and Logos
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While most T-shirt quilts are made from large squares cut from the printed fronts of T-shirts that are sewn together to make a larger quilt, they don't have to be. Quilt blocks, the pieces of materials that make up a quilt, can be any shape and any size. A T-shirt quilt can be made by mixing and matching shapes and colors, printed designs and patterns to create a unique quilt out of the discarded cloth.
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