T Shirt Quilt Interfacing

I cant imagine trying to work with the shirts without some sort of stabilizer.

T shirt quilt interfacing. You can purchase it in packages or by the yard. Once a T-shirt is in your quilt its not coming out. Most of our sizes use a 15 square but depending on the design of the t-shirt we sometimes use a 125 square.

For the batting cut 20 115 squares using needle-punched. T-Shirt Quilt Instructions Interfacing. The Gal at joanns helped me pick out the very lightest one.

Overlap the pressing areas to make sure you cover all parts of the image. If you find a different brand at your fabric store just make sure it is light weight and wont stretch out of shape and youll be good to go. Please keep in mind that I am by no means a sewing expert and thats why I also did not make a real quilt.

A couple of my local quilt shops carry a 100 cotton woven fusible interfacing that they swear is the best thing for constructing t-shirt quilts. My newest quilt finished in 2014 for the Harley Davidson lover in my familyThis collection of T-shirts was soooo large I decided to make a two-sided quilt. Heres what the stabilized t-shirt looks like with the interfacing fused to its back side.

At that time the Internet was not what it is today. When making t-shirt quilts I usually add sashing strips between all of my t-shirt blocks and do most of my heavier quilting there to ensure the quilt layers stay together. I didnt save them all but tried to save the ones that had special significance.

This gave me two 125 squares from each t-shirt. I made my first T-shirt quilt in 1992. A t-shirt quilt can preserve fun memories that you dont want to let go of even once youre done wearing the shirt for good.