T-Shirt Quilts
Quilt As You Go
Nonfiction, Home & Garden, Crafts & Hobbies, Needlecrafts & Fabric, Quilts & Quilting
| Author: | Marguerita McManus | ISBN: | 9781936826353 |
| Publisher: | Loose Fibers Media | Publication: | August 18, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Marguerita McManus |
| ISBN: | 9781936826353 |
| Publisher: | Loose Fibers Media |
| Publication: | August 18, 2015 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
Turn your precious T-shirts into quilts with these amazingly simple techniques. Learn several options for stabilizing your knit T-shirts and four setting options for creating your quilt blocks. Use easy machine quilting on each block and then a popular "tired and true" method for joining the blocks into a finished quilt. With all these options you can choose what's best for your quilt. The four options, clearly demonstrated, for making quilt blocks for your t-shirts are:
leave them 'as-is"
add a strip of fabric to each t-shirt to make them bigger and a consistent size
add multiple strips of fabrics to each t-shirt
add several quilt-like borders to your t-shirts
Perfect for beginners and non-quilters as well as for experienced quilters who want to do it all themselves.
The most important part of making a t-shirt quilt is to cut large and stabilize! Several options were tested and all results presented in the book so that you can choose the right one for your t-shirts.
Adding fabrics makes the quilt more "quilt-like" and gives you options for bringing in fabrics that match the theme of your quilt - take a look at the "Las Vegas Quilt" and the "Alaska Quilt" for those options. Check out "Penny's Quilt" for adding multiple borders and for making a wall hanging from just a few t-shirts.
There are 4 videos on YouTube that give you a few of the tips in the book as well as a peek at the quilts and a quirk discovered while testing stabilizers.
Turn your precious T-shirts into quilts with these amazingly simple techniques. Learn several options for stabilizing your knit T-shirts and four setting options for creating your quilt blocks. Use easy machine quilting on each block and then a popular "tired and true" method for joining the blocks into a finished quilt. With all these options you can choose what's best for your quilt. The four options, clearly demonstrated, for making quilt blocks for your t-shirts are:
leave them 'as-is"
add a strip of fabric to each t-shirt to make them bigger and a consistent size
add multiple strips of fabrics to each t-shirt
add several quilt-like borders to your t-shirts
Perfect for beginners and non-quilters as well as for experienced quilters who want to do it all themselves.
The most important part of making a t-shirt quilt is to cut large and stabilize! Several options were tested and all results presented in the book so that you can choose the right one for your t-shirts.
Adding fabrics makes the quilt more "quilt-like" and gives you options for bringing in fabrics that match the theme of your quilt - take a look at the "Las Vegas Quilt" and the "Alaska Quilt" for those options. Check out "Penny's Quilt" for adding multiple borders and for making a wall hanging from just a few t-shirts.
There are 4 videos on YouTube that give you a few of the tips in the book as well as a peek at the quilts and a quirk discovered while testing stabilizers.
