Last month before heading out on vacation, I did this t-shirt quilt for a client. These are her daughter's t-shirts and sweatshirts from college and her sorority.
The first step is to cut the front and back apart. A couple of her t-shirts, she wanted both the back and front used and some just the back. After cutting apart the shirts, I cut the iron-on interfacing into 15" x 15" pieces. I ironed these to the backs of the shirts and then cut my squares using my 12.5" x 12.5" ruler. I then laid out the squares to get a pleasing layout and sewed them together.
They chose this fun pineapple print fleece for the backing. I pieced it to get a big enough piece for the back. I laid it right side up on the floor and then placed the sewn together t-shirts on top with right side down.
I placed the pins parallel to the edge and trimmed the backing to match the front. I sewed all around with a 1/4" seam allowance and left an opening to turn. After turning it right side out, I topstitched close to the edge, closing up the opening.
To keep the layers together, I stitched in the ditch at the corners of the t-shirts. You can see a little what it looks like on the back (see arrow). From the front you usually don't see the stitches. Next t-shirt quilt will be one for me, I hope.
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