I finally got back to a t-shirt quilt that has been patiently waiting for me for a few months.  Luckily, the recipients are patient, too :-).  If you recall, I began this journey by laying out the shirts to make sure they which ones the client wanted in her quilt.  You can read about that here.  That was t-shirt quilting lesson 101.

For quilting session 102, I cut out all of the t-shirts and then pressed them to a stabilizer:

Following that step, I then cut the t-shirts apart as I pressed them in huge rows based on the stabilizer bolts I had to work with.  Once I had them cut apart, I sorted them into piles based on the size of the t-shirt emblem:

Finally, I cut out the squares in as uniform shapes as possible and laid them out so the recipient can see all of them and make any changes she wanted to:

I have just heard back from the recipient and we are going to cull some of the t-shirts because this quilt is going to be HUGE (king-size) if we don’t get rid of a few shirts.  I will await her approval of the ones she asked me to remove and go from there!