Make your old t-shirts into a deconstructed t-shirt quilt.

Well, I took the plunge, folks.  I officially quilted a full-size quilt.

I took photos of the process. One thing I learned — I desperately need a walking foot. I couldn’t find one for my machine (they were sold out in two places, so I gave up since this was just a practice quilt anyway). Also, quilting on t-shirts is difficult when you come across larger patches of screenprinting, especially when it’s a newer shirt.

Here’s what I did:

1. I got some backing and batting and made a quilt sandwich.
2. I basted it with large safety pins.
3. I took tape (artists tape would work the best but I only had athletic tape at home, so that worked) and created uniform lines to follow with my stitching….and I was off.  
4. I trimmed it and sewed the binding on (backwards I believe).
5. And since I’m really lazy, I zig-zag stitched the binding to finish it.

I only had to reload the bobbin once, which was awesome because I hate doing that (I’m lazy. if I had a self-loading bobbin or never-ending bobbin that would rule. also — self threading needle).  

Here are photos of the process.