I have been making a queen-size t-shirt quilt for a friend’s daughter and son-in-law.  Queen-size as in it covers a queen-size bed and has about a 10″ drop all the way around it.  It’s not only the largest quilt I’ve ever made, it is extremely heavy!  My longarm quilter, Meloney, did an amazing job of quilting it with small-ish curlycues – which is where the extra weight, compared to a larger longarm quilted pattern, comes from.

Unfortunately, she encountered an issue that I have to correct – *none* of which is her fault.  A few of the t-shirts are very saturated with screen printing.  So much so that she couldn’t even consider quilting on those shirts without causing damage to her longarm.

She made a suggestion as to how to correct the issue and I asked another respected quilter what her suggestion would be – and both agreed with each other so that’s what I’ll do.  You can see the issues below.  The white is the backing on the quilt and then the t-shirt photos follow the white quilted fabric photos.

The correction will be done using a simple needle and thread and just tacking the t-shirts down (and hiding the thread in the batting), in as many places as necessary to keep the three quilt layers together for the long haul.  I love it that the fix is simple and love it even more when I can correct an issue without compromising the design of the quilt!