T Shirt Quilt Different Size Blocks

10 examples of t shirt quilts made with different size blocks all white t shirt quilt.
T shirt quilt different size blocks. In many of them i can see they added to the main pieces until they actually did have even rows or columns or built them into sub blocks that would fit together. They choose only to include their white t shirts. 64 x 76 this travel t shirt quilt chronicles our customer s adventures around the. I placed the t shirts where i thought they would look balanced then i filled in spaces with sashing and with small blocks pinwheels flying geese four patch etc.
Today i m going to show you how i use graph paper to design my quilt layouts and reduce the cost of in. Child or teen sized shirts will naturally yield smaller blocks. What i did was to put different size widths of sashings to bring them up to a certain size. The pieces from each of the shirts are all different sizes so it won t work to have traditional rows and columns.
Make a log cabin type border addition. This allows adjusting the size of any tee shirt image area to match other blocks and is handy if you have a big variation of tee shirt sizes. I have done a t shirt quilt that had blocks of different sizes. I ve looked on line and seen tons of these kind of quilts.
That s what i did too. Use a log cabin type of method to add borders to the tee shirt center. Unless your shirts are very small plan on cutting out 10 12 squares. Here s what this block might look like.
Choose a block size that relates to the size of your shirt pieces if you are working with adult men s t shirts you can make your blocks up to 16 square.