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| There's more than one way to make a quilt |
Making a tee-shirt quilt, (I have to admit, something I never wanted to do) requires some thinking about just how you want to go about it! Using the whole front of the shirt in the top, including the sleeves for a layered look or just squares the image on the front, a sort of 'meme quilt'? Individual squares fluffed up with batting? Individual block quilted or whole quilt quilted, as well as the usual 'where will this be used? Does it require batting or just a layer of cotton sheeting?
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| Use the whole front, layered? |
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| Just use a portion to make 'meme's'? |
Which ever way you choose, to keep the tee shirt portion from stretching, you will need to back them, perhaps with a muslin like fabric. Another option is that you could use an iron on interfacing, but consider how that leaves the fabric feeling a bit stiff, and determine for yourself whether, once completed, that might effect how your quilt will lay and feel. Neither option are right or wrong, just different.
I think that I would be using a fabric, were I to make one, so that I can 'stuff' area's of the image with a high loft batting or even a little bit of pillow stuffing. For instance, in the image above, I might outline the cat using a black thread and straight stitch along the outside and along the white lines, and 'stuff' the cat before closing the last line, making it 'stand-out' from the rest of the image.
