T-Shirt Quilts For Christmas

 It was a busy three months sewing t-shirt/memory shirt quilts,

but I made the Christmas deadlines and got them all done...whew!

I made six t-shirt quilts for my friend, his wife and three children.

This t-shirt quilt was for my niece

Memory Quilt With Shirts Or T-Shirts

 My nephews wife asked me to make four quilts using her recently passed dad's shirts.

Because the word "no" is apparently not part of my vocabulary, I said, "Yes." 

Memory Quilt, 55" x 55"

With buttons being a hazard for my needles, I did a meandering scribble design for quilting.

There was a scarf among the shirts that was special to the family,

so I made a stuffed heart and added a pocket on the back of the quilt.

I bagged all four up so they were ready for delivery.

Four of the grandsons wore one of their grandpa's shirts to church.

As a special treat for them, I made a pillow for each of them, one for a niece, and an extra one

 that will go to grandpa's brother. A heart made from the scarf went in the center.

Most of the shirts were stretchy, so they needed to be stabilized for easier assembly. I think the best

 way is to use Heat N Bond EZ-Tee Stabilizer or a light weight iron-on interfacing on the back of

 the shirt block. It keeps the t-shirts from stretching out of shape while sewing.

Here are the instructions for this memory quilt (not the pillow) or 

you can download the pattern HERE. If you right click on the pattern

photo below, you can save it to your computer.

If you have any questions, let me know.

Making Old T-Shirts Into A Sweet Memory Quilt

Do you know someone (or maybe it is you) who is holding on to a treasured box of old t-shirts?
Well...it's time to drag them out and make an easy and memorable t-shirt quilt!

With graduations fast approaching, a t-shirt quilt would make a great gift.

I'm over at the ThermOWeb blog today showing you how I made this quilt.
I used Therm O Web's Heat N Bond Fusible Interfacing to stabilize
 those stretchy t-shirts to make it easier to sew them all together.

Sweet Memories T-Shirt Quilt

The finished quilt measures 54" x 68" - finished blocks are 12" x 12"

The PDF instructions are on my Craftsy page HERE.

These t-shirts were my hubby's who had slowly been throwing away his old shirts, but for 

various reasons couldn't part with some of these. He still has enough left to last him a lifetime!

Now he has this treasure and totally loves it!

He's been riding bikes FOREVER and has the scars to prove it.

(Let me just say there was one of the above t-shirts that had to have some major trimming 

done to it to remove the blood stains from one of his overly adventurous bike rides.)

His right arm is even bleeding in the 2015 photo below, but he's still smiling!

Head on over to the Therm O Web blog to check out how to make a t-shirt quilt

and to get other amazing ideas for using their products in your sewing/paper projects.