Thank you!! I’m so excited to see the end next week and how you put everything together!! You’re great Angel!! Have a beautiful and blessed hump day!!🤗❤️🤗
Just found your videos, great tutorials, you explai things very well. My question is in stead of doing a back stitch, what are your thoughts on a lock stitch?
Hi Angel, Thank you for the videos, I am starting a t-shirt quilt/blanket, I live in the south, so could I leave out the flannel? so I would only have 2 pieces. Thank you
I have never tried it, but I wouldn't be afraid to do it. Two things...1st, the T-shirts will tend to roll on you and possibly pucker without something to stick to (the shirts tend to stick to the flannel). You could use a light weight stabilizer that is smaller than the T-shirt (so that the stabilizer isn't in the ragged seam), or you could use a fabric glue to help it from rolling. 2nd...with your scraps of T-shirts that you will not use in your quilt top, you could experiment how they will go together and how they will feel by stitching them together. Besides the flannel being a great stabilizer, it also just adds another color to the rag. Also, if the T-shirts are made of various kinds of fabric, stabilizing would be the better method. But, like I said, experiment with those scraps! Even with the flannel, the quilt does feel lighter than the traditional method. Let me know whatcha' end up doing!!! Thank you for asking!
Lol, boy, have I learned a lot, and I just started this last night. After I cut up all my shirts, I realized.. Nope, my idea was NOT GOOD. I found a heavy/thick sheet (like they used to make, I think it was my GMoms still in perfect shape). It even matches my colors. Win-Win. Cut it up, Ironed it,and now I'm pinning. Clips didn't work for me either. Wow, yes, the shirts roll and have a mind of their own. I hope it will work, I'm going to sew one and see. If not, I will go pick up some flannel. Thank you so much for responding and for sharing your knowledge! Before I do anything else. I am rewatching the videos. I will let you know how my maiden voyage with this goes. Thank you again 💓
@@joallison1034, you got this!! Part of our quilting journey is to ask ourselves, "What if?" And we learn something new every time we do...good for you! Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on your experiment!
Absolutely!!! It is your quilt, and you are the boss! Just be careful not to stretch it too much. And depending on how much quilting you do, you may want to leave enough room for the larger seam that you will do for the rag. If it is quilted to the edges and you go to snip the rag, you may have a metric ton of threads in the way and dangling in the seam. Just thoughts I would share with you. I have personally did some different type of quilting on a T-shirt Rag Quilt myself. It does work :) Happy Quilting to you!
Oh...forgot to mention that your T-Shirts have been washed a zillion times. Therefore, no matter how much or little the flannel shrinks, quilters will wash it when using with a T-Shirt Rag Quilt. However, again, I do not. I just want to be sure you understood the why behind why quilters do. Happy Quilting!
Is it difficult to use tech shirt material in your quilt? I am thinking the tech material t-shirts will be hard to sew I would Love your thoughts. Thank you
That is a great question. Due to tech tee shirt being made of a giving stretchy polyester we are not sure that it would be better unless of course you add stabilizer in the back. We hope you share your project if you try it. Please stop by again.
I want to add that I am going to try it in the rag style. In a traditional t-shirt quilt, I use stabilizer on every shirt. But, as you see in this video, no stabilizer in the rag...Let's see if I have an unused tech material shirt, and we can give it a whirl! Thanks for the question!
Thank you!! I’m so excited to see the end next week and how you put everything together!! You’re great Angel!! Have a beautiful and blessed hump day!!🤗❤️🤗
I am excited to see it too!!! LOL You, my friend, are more than wonderful!!! I hope your Hump Day was a blessed one also!!!
I find that folding over the end of the tape at an angle helps keep them from tangling and sticking together.
Brilliant as always!!!
Just found your videos, great tutorials, you explai things very well. My question is in stead of doing a back stitch, what are your thoughts on a lock stitch?
Great thought. Either way would be good. Thank you for stopping by.
Loved your video… may i ask what machine youre using…its pleasant sounding!
Thank you for stopping by. The sewing machine used is a Singer Quantum Stylist
Hi Angel,
Thank you for the videos, I am starting a t-shirt quilt/blanket, I live in the south, so could I leave out the flannel? so I would only have 2 pieces. Thank you
I have never tried it, but I wouldn't be afraid to do it. Two things...1st, the T-shirts will tend to roll on you and possibly pucker without something to stick to (the shirts tend to stick to the flannel). You could use a light weight stabilizer that is smaller than the T-shirt (so that the stabilizer isn't in the ragged seam), or you could use a fabric glue to help it from rolling. 2nd...with your scraps of T-shirts that you will not use in your quilt top, you could experiment how they will go together and how they will feel by stitching them together. Besides the flannel being a great stabilizer, it also just adds another color to the rag. Also, if the T-shirts are made of various kinds of fabric, stabilizing would be the better method. But, like I said, experiment with those scraps! Even with the flannel, the quilt does feel lighter than the traditional method. Let me know whatcha' end up doing!!! Thank you for asking!
Lol, boy, have I learned a lot, and I just started this last night. After I cut up all my shirts, I realized.. Nope, my idea was NOT GOOD. I found a heavy/thick sheet (like they used to make, I think it was my GMoms still in perfect shape). It even matches my colors. Win-Win. Cut it up, Ironed it,and now I'm pinning. Clips didn't work for me either.
Wow, yes, the shirts roll and have a mind of their own.
I hope it will work, I'm going to sew one and see.
If not, I will go pick up some flannel.
Thank you so much for responding and for sharing your knowledge! Before I do anything else. I am rewatching the videos.
I will let you know how my maiden voyage with this goes.
Thank you again 💓
@@joallison1034, you got this!! Part of our quilting journey is to ask ourselves, "What if?" And we learn something new every time we do...good for you! Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on your experiment!
@@HALO_Inspirations Thank you so much
Can you do more quilting on each block?
Absolutely!!! It is your quilt, and you are the boss! Just be careful not to stretch it too much. And depending on how much quilting you do, you may want to leave enough room for the larger seam that you will do for the rag. If it is quilted to the edges and you go to snip the rag, you may have a metric ton of threads in the way and dangling in the seam. Just thoughts I would share with you. I have personally did some different type of quilting on a T-shirt Rag Quilt myself. It does work :) Happy Quilting to you!
I have a question.... DO YOU PREWASH YOUR FLANNEL??????? thanks I'm about to start a T-Shirt quilt using your method, and I didn't catch if you did?
I do not. However, many quilters do as some flannel can shrink more than cotton. Great question!
Oh...forgot to mention that your T-Shirts have been washed a zillion times. Therefore, no matter how much or little the flannel shrinks, quilters will wash it when using with a T-Shirt Rag Quilt. However, again, I do not. I just want to be sure you understood the why behind why quilters do. Happy Quilting!
Is it difficult to use tech shirt material in your quilt? I am thinking the tech material t-shirts will be hard to sew I would
Love your thoughts. Thank you
That is a great question. Due to tech tee shirt being made of a giving stretchy polyester we are not sure that it would be better unless of course you add stabilizer in the back. We hope you share your project if you try it. Please stop by again.
I want to add that I am going to try it in the rag style. In a traditional t-shirt quilt, I use stabilizer on every shirt. But, as you see in this video, no stabilizer in the rag...Let's see if I have an unused tech material shirt, and we can give it a whirl! Thanks for the question!