Making a T-Shirt Quilt Tutorial, Part 1
Making a T-Shirt Quilt Tutorial, Part 2
Making a T-Shirt Quilt Tutorial, Part 3
Making a T-Shirt Quilt Tutorial, Part 4
Making a T-Shirt Quilt Tutorial, Part 5
Making a T-Shirt Quilt Tutorial, Part 7
The last thing I needed to do before shipping the quilt to Utah to be quilted was to make the back. Now, I have always looked at the back of a quilt as a whole second project. You can make it as simple or as complicated as you want. It can be one solid color or you can piece the back and make it just as beautiful as the front. The only rule with making the back is that it needs to be 4″ larger on each side than the front. That means since I the front of this quilt measured 96″ X 96″, the back needs to be 104″ X 104″. This gives you enough room to secure the back in place when you make your quilt sandwich with the batting, the front, and the back. I send my quilts out to someone with a long arm quilting machine to be quilted, so I won’t be showing you that part of the process. This is just my preference, because I like the professional was the finished quilts look when they are quilted that way.
Judy had requested that I use the T-shirts that I wasn’t able to use on the front somehow on the back. She wanted to be able to see those shirts when she turned the bed down at night. Here is how it turned out:
Keep in mind that what you are looking at is the wrong side of the fabric except for the part at the top that is turned down as it would be when the bed is being readied for the night. This will make a lot more sense when we get the completed quilt back from the quilter.
It really is going to look better when the quilting is completed. I’ll be mailing the quilt to Jorja in Utah in the morning. She does her artwork with a longarm quilting machine, and will have it ready for me to pick up after April 26. The next time you see this quilt, it will be ready for me to send to Judy, where ever she may be at that time.
Judy Bell says
Cool beans! 🙂
business says
.Quilt backing fabrics come in widths up to 120 inches which can eliminate having to seam the backings. However the choices are limited for extra wide fabrics…If the backing needs to be pieced it is preferable to have two seams on either side of the center as shown in the first image below…This image is a full size quilt 80-inches by 95-inches which will require you to place a full length strip of 42-inch wide fabric down the middle and split another like length strip for the sides…The second image shows how a queen or king size quilt backing can be pieced. …..The third image shows how to piece the quilt backing if you plan to have your quilt quilted on a long arm quilting machine…It is best to have only one seam to contend with and that seam will follow the take-up roller.