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3 Responses to “How may t-shirts do you need to make a t-shirt quilt?”
it depends how big the cuts your gonna be using are. and how big you want you project to be!! but i would say about 20. you should put that cotton type thing Between the front and back of the quilt so its thicker and warmer .
Depends on how big a quilt you want.
First, check what the biggest square is that you can cut from each of your t-shirts – somewhere between 12″ and 17″ is common. Say you can get 12″ squares from all your shirts, and you do 2″ sashing (no additional borders), you could get a quilt about 44″x60″ (a decent lap size) from 12 shirts. If you want a bigger quilt, you’ll need to either make bigger squares or have more shirts. If you don’t mind a smaller quilt, 9 shirts could be enough.
Good luck.
Most instructions are for larger blocks, but you could add borders to the t-shirt square to equal the size of the block in the instructions, or lay them out and do the math.
Here are some suggested sizes and # of shirts needed –
January 27th, 2009 at 9:08 am
elomcc
it depends how big the cuts your gonna be using are. and how big you want you project to be!! but i would say about 20. you should put that cotton type thing Between the front and back of the quilt so its thicker and warmer .
January 29th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
adrfra
Depends on how big a quilt you want.
First, check what the biggest square is that you can cut from each of your t-shirts – somewhere between 12″ and 17″ is common. Say you can get 12″ squares from all your shirts, and you do 2″ sashing (no additional borders), you could get a quilt about 44″x60″ (a decent lap size) from 12 shirts. If you want a bigger quilt, you’ll need to either make bigger squares or have more shirts. If you don’t mind a smaller quilt, 9 shirts could be enough.
Good luck.
January 30th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
marcie
Your choice.
Most instructions are for larger blocks, but you could add borders to the t-shirt square to equal the size of the block in the instructions, or lay them out and do the math.
Here are some suggested sizes and # of shirts needed –
Here is a tutorial -