Quilt Designing and Sizing

is THE process that brings the 
quilt blocks together

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Here are the article sequence, please follow it accordingly to get the most from them. 

  1. See how I made T-Shirt Quilts in 7 days!
  2. Stabilizing the material is key for t-shirt quilts
  3. Designing and Sizing is THE process that the makes a tshirt quilt
  4. Sashing and Borders brings your tee-shirt Quilt together
  5. Quilting and Binding the last steps to t shirt quilt completion
  6. Complete T-Shirt Quilt made in seven days

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December 20th.....

How to design the blocks for quilting
designing the blocks for quilting

Rough cut the logos and put them up on the design wall to get a "feel" for them and how they may be arranged.

quilt design and sizing

Designing and sizing refers to the size of the blocks and how to arrange them.

I do this by rough cutting the logos and putting them up on my design wall to get a "feel" for them and how I may want to arrange them. 

These blocks are still in the rough cut format.

I tried moving them around to see if I could get a balanced feel as far as colors go.

Once I'm happy with the layout, then I check the sizes.

The large graphics are 14 1/2 inches wide by 16 1/2 inches long.

Therefore, I need to make the smaller logo blocks larger.

Recommended Sewing Machine:

  1. Brother CS6000i Feature-Rich Sewing Machine
  2. SINGER 4411 Heavy Duty Sewing Machine
  3. Laura Ashley Limited Edition CX155LA Computerized Sewing & Quilting Machine

If the width of the smaller block is 14 1/2", then I can just add strips of fabric to the top and bottom of the logo piece, to get 16 1/2 inches in length.

If my t-shirt logo is narrower and shorter than my block size, then I have to add fabric strips to the sides as well as the top and bottom.

You can see on the bottom left, that I have four small logos which I want to make into one block.

That can be done in a number of ways.

The one I chose was to frame the opposing corners (the black and the gray) with black strips, while adding only one black&white check strip to the other two corners.

I think this adds some interest by not having the logos perfectly centered in this block.

The process is shown below.

sashing
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with sashing
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sashing strips
sashings

Below you will see how I added a checkerboard strip to the top and bottom of the I Love New York logo.

I cut the strip the same width as the t-shirt material, keeping it all square.

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pieced sashing
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2 quilting design for sashing
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Essential Sewing Tools for Quilters

Brother CS6000i Feature-Rich Sewing MachineBrother Sewing Machine
Self Healing Cutting MatSelf Healing Cutting Mat
Fabric QuiltingFabric Quilting
CGR Creative Grids 6.5Creative Grids Quilting Ruler
Rotary CutterRotary Cutter
Simthread 63 Brother Colors Polyester 120d/2 40 Weight Embroidery Machine Thread for Brother Machine63 Colors Polyester Thread

This is a continuation of a Six (6) series quilting articles on:

How to Make T-Shirt Quilts

Here are the article sequence, please follow it accordingly to get the most from them. 

  1. See how I made T-Shirt Quilts in 7 days!
  2. Stabilizing the material is key for t-shirt quilts
  3. Designing and Sizing is THE process that the makes a tshirt quilt
  4. Sashing and Borders brings your tee-shirt Quilt together
  5. Quilting and Binding the last steps to t shirt quilt completion
  6. Complete T-Shirt Quilt made in seven days

Please, leave me your comments in the box below.

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