Thank you all for all the great tips. Your quilts are pretty, hope mine turns out as nicely as yours have. I really do appreciate all your help. I made 4 "Emigrant Quilts" combining my hobbies of genealogy and quilting. I love quilting. Making a baby quilt now for my 2nd great grand child (a girl to go with her brother).

I have Terrific Tees book and it says to use non-woven interface . press and cut tees 2 Inches larger than finished block. follow interface directions, then trim tee finished size plus 5/8 inches. It allows for curling of the edges. then your ready to piece your quilt.

Make sure you use a pressing sheet to avoid interface from gunking up your iron. Good luck.. Cheryl

I made one t-shirt quilt (in my profile). Used a fusible tricot to stabilize the t-shirts, which worked well. The thing I would never do again for a similar quilt would be using the wonky (ie bias-edged) settings. What a pain! It is a very heavy quilt; I was very relieved to hand it over to the long arm quilter to quilt it for me! DS#2 loves it! Nancy

Yes, I used light weight interfacing on mine. And then hand quilted.

AudreyJNB wrote:
Be careful! The website does not share the part of their process that they use to stabilize the t-shirts without using stabilizer. As you know, t-shirt fabric is very stretchy. Most techniques use some sort of stabilizer. I have not read this book yet, but I'd guess that they heavily starch the t-shirt squares or something like that.

Thanks Lynn, for your input. One of my daughters is named Lynn, the other, Gail. I did my "homework" and found out so much about T-Shirt Quilts. Good forum, good information. The Too Cool T-Shirt site was very good, pictures and all the how-to-details. Now I'm ready to tackle the project. I'll be careful about the weight of the finished quilt.

Do a search for that in the forum. It's been discussed before I know. I made one you can see in my profile! It's very unusual....I love it!

Good Luck!

Lynn

I have been asked by a friend to make a quilt for her out of her T-shirt collection. What are the "tricks of the trade" for stabilizing, stiching the shirts together with or perhaps without sashing? All info gladly accepted! I've never made a T-shirt anything in my life.
Thanks. Audrey