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T-Shirt Quilting: Warm Up With Your Life Story

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Overview


Are the t-shirts you saved for their sentimental value starting to pile up? Making them into a t-shirt quilt is an incredible way to preserve memories of the marathons you’ve run, family reunions you’ve attended, theater productions you’ve appeared in and more. Join Diane Gilleland and learn about the coziest way to share your life story.

This course will cover everything you need to know to create a t-shirt quilt from start to finish. You'll learn three methods of simple quilting: tie quilting by hand, machine ties, and simple straight line quilting. You'll learn two methods of finishing the quilt: a sewn edge and a binding. You’ll explore the tools professional quilters use, but also learn how to incorporate the sewing materials you already have into your quilting. You’ll make accurate cuts using a ruler and a rotary cutter and construct a simple patchwork. You’ll also learn best practices for sewing straight seams and working with knits.

No matter how many t-shirts you have saved up or how much sewing experience you have you’ll leave this course with the skills you need to create a lifelong keepsake.

Syllabus

  • Turning T-Shirts into Usable Fabric
  • Organizing and Measuring Your Patterns
  • Building Your Quilt Skeleton
  • Stabilizing Your T-Shirts
  • Creating Quilt Blocks
  • Quilt Design Process
  • Sizing and Layout of Your Quilt
  • Sewing Machine Basics
  • Sewing Odd-Shaped Blocks
  • Sewing Your Columns Together
  • Cutting Your Sashing Strips
  • Planning Your Backing Piece
  • Cutting and Sewing Your Backing Piece
  • Making Your Quilt Sandwich, Part 1
  • Making Your Quilt Sandwich, Part 2
  • Tacking and Tying
  • Seam Quilting
  • Creating Your Binding Strips
  • Attaching Your Binding Strips to Your Quilt
  • Finishing Your Quilt
  • Hand-sewing the Opening Closed

Taught by

Diane Gilleland

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