T Shirt Quilt Without Interfacing

The interfacing stabilizes the stretchy jersey knit t shirt material without interfacing it is nearly impossible to keep quilt blocks square and straight.

T shirt quilt without interfacing. The amount is tough to judge and depends on the desired finished quilt dimensions so get the widest width you can and i usually start with 10 yards. My brilliant sister natalie was working on a t shirt quilt for our sister and she agreed to let us film her teaching how to do what she does and she does it well. How hard it is to create t shirt quilts really depends on how large the quilt and. T shirt material without interfacing it is nearly impossible to keep quilt blocks.

Doing this makes the grains of the fabrics run in opposite directions. You can make it without the interfacing as the website given by the first answerer does but you d have to quilt the quilt sandwich to keep fabrics like t shirts from stretching in use that company uses a long arm quilting machine though which easily quilts lines fairly close together without stretching and using one of those is a lot eaiser than your quilting it by machine or even by hand. Medium weight iron on interfacing. It gives the quilt square more strength and it will stretch less when sewn the whole point of interfacing.

Next cut the shoulder seam sleeve seams and side seams of each t shirt. To lock the stretch out and make the t shirt stable like any other quilt fabric you need to turn the stretch of the interfacing opposite 90 degree to the stretch of the t shirt cover the whole thing with a damp press cloth to avoid melting the inks or any rubberized parts of the t shirt image. Fusible featherweight to midweight interfacing yardage by pellon sku 911ff. 5 here is how i am able to get away without interfacing.

T shirt quilting made easy. Rotate the top shirt a quarter turn to the left or right and put it back on top of the bottom layer. It s all up to. You will have to sew the shirts on your quilt if using interfacing fabric.

The second type of interfacing that we recommend for t shirt quilts is a woven interfacing. Switch to a ballpoint needle made especially for knits if a standard sewing machine needle snags the t shirt fabric. So you have a lot of t shirts why not make a t shirt quilt. It s woven fabric much like a thin woven cotton fabric and it s got the fusible on the back as well.

Thanks for doing this nat. Since you re attaching it to a knit but it s woven it s going to behave more like a woven cotton fabric like you would typically use for quilting. Press the fusible interfacing onto the back of each piece according to the manufacturer s directions. In this video i show you my favorite stabilizer when making t shirt quilts and how i go about using it to stabilize my t shirt mater.