How To Make A Tshirt Quilt With Batting

Secure all three layers together using straight pins and pinmoors as you see in the right photo.

How to make a tshirt quilt with batting. Wash and dry the t shirts. The batting will make the quilt fluffier and will insulate it. Use your 6 x 24 ruler and a rotary cutter to square up the quilt along the top bottom and both sides. Pin your layers in place then stitch a straight stitch all around the perimeter leaving an opening to turn the quilt right side out.

Cut below the neck banding too and remove any hemmed area along the bottom of the shirt. Quilting a t shirt quilt. The final step to finishing these blocks is to quilt them. Lay the batting and t shirt top face up on the backing.

Cover with your layer of quilt batting then top with the pieced t shirt block right side up. Place the t shirt piece image side down on your ironing board and top with the interfacing with the adhesive side down. Measure the height of each design only in the strip total and write down. Then put the t shirt top on the batting so the images are facing up.

These pins and anchors are much easier to insert and remove while quilting. Cut off the sleeves and connecting seams. Use a pair of sharp scissors to remove the front panel cutting near the side seams in order to leave as much fabric as possibleyoull trim back later. For each t shirt cut a piece of fusible interfacing that is larger than your chosen block size.

Finally machine quilt with your desired design. Calculate the same minimum height. Layer batting between the quilt top and backing. Center the interfacing behind the image or position it as desired.

Add 1 inch 12 inch seam allowance at top and bottom of block per of blocks in the strip and add to the. Next pin or baste layers together. Lay out your quilt top with the batting stitched to it on the floor again with the right side facing up.