Basting & Quilting a T-shirt Quilt 

I worked on wildfires for over 30 years and have many, many, many fire t-shirts.

Thank you for explaining EVERYTHING! I am so tired of experts glossing over the critical details in their tutorials. The whole reason people come to watch tutorials is because they don’t know what to do.

Sew happy I discovered your videos. You packed so much info into this video and addressed many of the questions I had re t-shirt quilting.

I was going to suggest that you just quilt without worrying about commenting--and you did! It is so mesmerizing to just watch the free motion, and honestly, I could watch an hour of just that! Fun quilt!

Great advice. Thanks for sharing!

Thank you for this tutorial, I think I will give this a try! You made it look easy!

Great video rob. Love the vibe of the show

Looks great!

Happy Birthday for the other day Rob hope you had a good day.

Thanks Rob.

Thank you!

I just finished a couple of T-shirt quilts. I washed the cotton fabric that I used for the borders and backing, used a poly-cotton blend batting (which said it would have 2-3% shrinkage), and I used cotton thread for sewing and quilting. When I washed the quilts, they puckered up; not sure if it was because of the thread or the batting. Lots of things to consider when planning a T-shirt quilt and I'm learning with each one. Some day, I'll get it all right! I didn't really mind the shrinkage because it made them look cozier, and the recipients were happy with them.

Would love to see the finished product!

Another GREAT tute. Love to watch your free-motion quilt designs as you sew them. Question: why don’t you use temporary spray adhesive to baste your quilt sandwiches? Much less time involved and likely would reduce incidence of rippling...?

Thanks for the video, Rob. Appreciate all your tutorials. What kind of needle are you using for quilting on t-shirts? Thanks again.

Alot of concerns covered & addressed...Great vid!

You mentioned holes if quilting over the logo. What if you are doing an all over quilt design?

Wished I had this tutorial sooner. I am nearly fimished wth my tshirt quilt and it has really been a challenge. I completed 2 others and didn't have near the problems. Thank you though for this it was very informative..

Getting prepared to make my first t-shirt quilt. Can I quilt 3 or 4 squares prior to putting on flannel backing?Love the look of free quilting and would like to give a little more interest to the quilt.

You’re great i like your channel I wanna buy my first sewing machine what do you recommend

Thanks,Rob. Q: I have 'mixed' fabric types - aloha shirts, T-shirt, pique cotton. Anything jump out at you as being a problem w/ that? Thanks for all you do!

Hi Rob, Really like your videos....I'm making a memory quilt from tee shirts...I need to know what size/type needle to use...I have the tee shirts as top, I have batting and cotton material for the back...I am wanting to free motion quilt it and I'm having issues with my bobbin thread coming through to the top. Can you please advice me on how to correct this problem. I don't have the issues with other quilting.Thanks, Lisha

I am making one now. This is a oversized queen. It is made of t-shirts from duty ports my son and his family lived at during their time in the Navy. They are from all over the world ranging from Hawaii to Italy. I have finished the piecing. Since it is so big I am thinking I should stitch in the ditch. My question is since I used a 1.8 stitch length will the stitches I am sewing in the seams (I pressed all the seams open) cause the seams to come apart? Also, what size thread did you use?

What size blocks do you usually go with?

Would that slip mat be helpful for straight line walking foot quilting too?

Great tutorial Rob, very helpful. Any suggestions on what to do with the leftover t-shirt fabric?

I use fleece for backing any suggestions

What if the logo takes up the whole square? I’m making a T-shirt quilt for someone and a lot of their shirts have the ink part covering the whole center of the rectangle. They are pretty big too, 17.5 x 17.5 so I don’t want to just quilt around the whole thing. What do you think?

I wish he was the home ec teacher back in highschool haha

How do you feel about basting sprays? Do you suggest using it with a tee shirt quilt?

Do you leave the stabiliser in situ or remove before quilting? Could you use water soluble stabiliser?

My local quilt shop's long arm quilter says that t-shirts dull the needle very quickly, and that doesn't include the iron on stuff. Have you (or anyone else) noticed that? Ron what do you think of quilting in the areas of the iron ons that have no rubbery stuff...like the words MAN SEWING in the first logo you quilted? Would that work? I think I would want at least some of the decal sewn down so it wouldn't separate. Or am I just overthinking things. That's hard for me to do. I'm a blonde! Haha! Love your stuff Rob!

What kind of machine do you use? I need one to freehand quilt. I’m learning so much from your videos ❤️

Got a T-shirt quilt to make never made one. It's a little intimidating!

I am really confused about the batting. I hear no batting, flannel in a single layer for batting ,80/20 batting, polyester batting? . They live in LA so it doesn't need to be a heavey quilt . Its a memory quilt for a dear friend who lost her husband who was also a dear friend for more than 60yrs so I want this to be right. One video showed quilt as you go with just verticle or horixontal line through the designs. I got the impression that you don't like going through the designs but around them? They were big travelers and he was a car guy so I have an amazing array of T shirts to use. She doesn't want a specific car or travel quilt but a mixture of logos. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks! I am new to your channel and you do a really nice job describing and showing how each step is done. Thank you!

If I use other cotton fabric to frame the t-shirts do I need to wash that fabric? I have unfortunately all ready cut all the fabric and t-shirts and I am starting to put together before I saw this video. Did I just make a horrible mistake?

Rob, will you do a photo quilt?

Ummm ... where do i get that t-shirt?!

May I ask what the gloves are for? I've never seen anyone wear gloves to sew before