New Skill: Fusible Webbing/T-Shirt Quilt/No binding (sew right sides together and flip right side out)
When you have a basket full of old t-shirts that you want to keep but don’t wear, you make a t-shirt quilt. I had no idea what I was doing, but I was determined to make it work. The only t-shirt quilts I could find online were ones where the t-shirts were cut into square blocks, all the same size, and put together like a block quilt. I didn’t like those because they cut into the shirt design and if keeping the design was the reason for making the quilt in the first place then that wasn’t going to work for me.
I decided to cut around the designs on my shirts and lay them randomly on a large piece of light weight fusible webbing. I ironed them as beset I could to the webbing and then used a zigzag stitch around the edges of each piece. I wish I had known how to do more of an embroidery stitch since that was what I envisioned, but it this worked out because it’s a scrappy/outdoor use quilt anyways. It was strange to work with the t-shirts because they slide everywhere and stretch out of shape easily.
I like how this turned out. It’s a bit of a mess, but it’s nice to have a quilt you don’t feel bad using in front of an outdoor fire while you eat s’mores. I figure, it’s just t-shirts, I should be able to wash it a lot and not feel bad about it.
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