![]() ![]() Learn how to make a t-shirt quilt with one of the unique and budget-friendly quilting patterns in this brand new eBook, How to Make a T-Shirt Quilt: 11 T-Shirt Quilts. Never miss a post from The Quilting Room sign up now to get new posts delivered to your inbox each morning! You can also find me on Facebook, Facebook Group, Twitter, G+, YouTube, Instagram, Craftsy and Amazon.How to Make a T-Shirt Quilt: 11 T-Shirt Quilts free eBook Learn how to quilt with old t-shirts with these free t-shirt quilt patterns and projects! It’s too small for my future project so I didn’t show it here but don’t toss it! That’s a good hunk of fabric for another project. The yoke, the odd part on the back where the collar attaches, is usually double thickness and it can be a nice piece of fabric. When you are done you end up with a lot of fabric. The last step is to just off all the hems. Once you cut up one side you have to do the other side. That means you have to cut on both sides of the seam to get it out. Others, like the one I’m working here, have flat seams. Some shirts have seams much like we make when we sew a quilt together. The placket is the part that the buttons or buttonholes are on. I keep the one with the buttons and toss the one with the buttonholes. The next thing I do is take the plackets off the front of the shirt. The only part of the collar I keep is the button. Since I’m not a hand quilter I use TV time to expand my fabric stash. The seams are the bones are we are getting rid of those. The technical term for breaking down a shirt is debone. Either a pattern or a color to balance out a project. I usually use the thrift stores to pick up specific shirts. ![]() This is when you can really stock up on shirts. Around here they run a few days and on the last day they do bag sales. If you can’t find enough shirts from the guys you know it’s time to move on to garage sales. Even if they have a stain or something you can work around that. That’s right clean out their closest for those shirts that they don’t wear anymore. It’s just easier to work with 100% cotton since it doesn’t have the stretch and you can iron it. In reality you could make a whole quilt out of blended fabrics but they are more difficult to work with. For whatever reason men’s shirts tend to be all cotton while women’s shirts tend to be a blend. The other reason we use men’s shirts you are going to have an easier time finding 100% cotton shirts. The larger the size the shirt is the bigger the pieces are and that means more usable fabric. Men’s shirts are usually made with big pieces of fabric, two for the front and one for the back. Women’s shirts are usually tailored to fit the female form so there are darts or lots of little pieces seamed together. This is really simple, there’s more fabric. Purchasing items from the links cost you nothing more and adds a few pennies to the fabric budget. If anyone says anything to you about not buying your fabric at the quilt shop you can say, “I’m doing green quilting. You’ll be able to make all kinds of scrappy quilts. Once you know how to break down or debone a shirt for quilting you’ll have more fabric in your stash than you know what to do with. This is a great way to quilt on a budget even if you don’t have a supply of them you can always pick up men’s cotton shirts at garage sales and thrift stores. A man’s shirt has a lot more fabric per shirt than a woman’s shirt does. Men’s cotton shirts are the easiest to upcycle for quilting. There’s no reason why you can’t do the same. They used the good fabric out of clothing they no longer wore. ![]() Our grandmothers and great grandmothers didn’t just run down to the fabric shop when they needed a new quilt. ![]()
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