Tips & Tricks With Memory T-Shirt Quilts - New Series - Part 1 Featuring Elmer's Glue & Baby Shirt

hi guys I am back and I am beginning a new quilt and I am so excited about this quilt it is a collage style memory slash t-shirt loop and there's not a lot of videos out there or at least I can't find them on how to put this quilt together and so I'm going to show you step by step in a sort of little series how I'm going to construct this quilt so if you are planning on a memory quilt a collage style t-shirt quilt stay tuned for future videos because we're going to walk step by step on how I achieved the look of this quilt welcome back you guys it's been a while since my last video we're going to try the phone method because as nice as the videos are that my husband Harlan shoots for me they're time-consuming and we are super busy I have a schedule booked up for a couple months and he is just as busy and active and so that method of shooting videos was way too time-consuming and I want to get this information out to you guys so we're going to try this for a little bit so pardon the noise of the AC pardon my phone video quality but I'm hoping that the information that I give to you would be worth all the little technical difficulties that we might have in shooting a video like this so this is my plan okay I know it probably only makes sense to me however this is going to be a collage style t-shirt quilt and if you're planning on doing a quilt like this grid paper graph paper is my easiest method that I could tell you I use a program called Escape maybe one day I'll show you how I use that video program to move my blocks around until I find a layout fits suiting to what I'm looking for but if you don't use Inkscape and you don't have a program that you familiar with for planning your quilts I suggest grab some graph paper pre measure all of your articles of clothing that you want your quilts and then play around on the graph paper and so you get a layout that you're that you're happy with I have my layout already and we are going to start in this let's see this top block which is a 20 by 20 inches size block this quilt is going to be a wedding gift from a mom and her family to their daughter when she gets married the wedding is coming up this summer and I really want to get this book done before we leave for Vermont so even though it has some baby clothes and some kids clothes in the quilt I really want to give it a more sophisticated look because it's a wedding present and I think it would be really awesome for them to display in their home and just you know something that can be really proud of and it's not sort of like babyish if you know what I mean so that would determine the fabrics that I'm going to use in the quilt the color palette and the the prints of the fabrics have gone all gone into my thinking that I wanted to bring it more on a Cisco sophisticated level versus more baby type of quilt even though you're going to see some articles of baby clothing in it which leads me to this little shirt isn't that so cute you guys look at that now see how little that is let's talk for a second when I usually make most of my t-shirt quilts most of the people want some kind of like block seams quilt or layout or even with different collage style quilts they just want the logo in it okay but we're going to do something fun because she's given me the total artistic liberty is with this quilt which means we're going to learn some fun techniques I'm going to show you guys some things and some tips and tricks on how I achieved this look but if we just cut the logo out of this small little baby shirt you're going to miss when the quilt is all put together how little she was when she warded look loosen for a little so cute so I really want the whole shirt to be in my quilt so that they can look back and say oh look how little she was you know so we're going to actually applique this onto our background fabric but you can see it's kind of a bit sophisticated not babyish at all and so we're elevating this quilt to another level for her because it's it's for an adult it's for a newlywed couple it's for who knows where they're going to put it but they could display this anywhere in their house and it's not going to look so babyish so we're going to do a series of videos and each one is going to be different because I have different ideas for each one of these blocks and you know what I don't I don't see any videos on this stuff maybe I'm searching for the wrong thing maybe maybe they're just that out there maybe just can help you alright so you guys know that working with t-shirt materials is difficult only because it's stretchy a lot more stretchy than your quilters cotton and so to do this I highly suggest that you run out and you grab some come on Apparel interfacing it's the basics it's p44 s usable interfacing rather from jo-ann's because you can use a half-off coupon and save some money we all know clothing is expensive and anywhere we can save money without cutting the quality of our products that's just smart thinking so grab a 50% coupon and grab you some of this interfacing when working with any type of clothing really and quilts anything that's got any type of stretch you really want to stabilize that while you're working with it and what I like about this this looks how light it is it doesn't really add a lot of weight to the quilt when you're finished so I'm just going to cut me off a piece and I'm going to show you guys sorry you can't see very well we're going to go ahead and stabilize the whole back of this shirt now I've already cut apart the shirt again keeping weight and consideration of the overall quilt I didn't want to use the whole shirt okay so I cut along the seam right down the side and right through the armpit and right across the shoulders and that gives me the whole look of a shirt without two layers of fabric okay so we're going to put the right side facing down you're going to want to try and get this shirt situated without any wrinkles or tucks just the way if you want it to appear in your quilt okay without stretching it out too much you're going to want to use a dry iron at least for the first part of this read the instructions I think people use a wet cloth over top of this I use my dry iron to tack it down and then I come back with steam to really secure the fusible interfacing to the back of the shirt just check to see what works best for you all right we're going to cover the shirt you can sort of see through that now make sure one side of the bumpy side and one side is a smooth side make sure the bumpy side is facing your shirt not up so that will fit to your iron alright guys and we are just pressing and securing the stabilizer so that it stays in place and we're not going back and forth back and forth while pressing we are the up and down motion [Music] I've been really excited about this quote for some time mom who ordered this quilt came by with her mom a couple weeks ago and we went over the details and kind of really excited about what this quote is going to look like I have a picture in my mind and sometimes that's hard to try to express or to tell someone your ideas maybe I'm just not expressive like that but in my mind I have a vision for this quilt and I'm thinking it could be really awesome she has a cheerleading outfit in there just two of them and one of them I'm going to applique the whole outfit onto the quilt so stay tuned for another video on how we're going to do that all right now everything is tacked down so that the interfacing is not going on anywhere I'm going to do this up to about a five and I'm going to turn on the steam and we're just going to really adhere the adhesive to the back of this shirt okay guys now we are cutting this outlines out one more time okay but you see that's not going anywhere and now you can work with this shirt and it's not going to stretchy everything is going to maintain its shape this gonna take me just a minute so bear with me I really want to show you how I put it on to the fabric block that's going to be in the clothes see I apologize we haven't been real busy on YouTube because I love showing the tutorials I love doing the videos but they're so time-consuming especially the way we were doing it we would set up light and start and stop certain stop and and then my husband Harlan he would spend a day editing the video and it just got to be where there isn't enough time especially going into the summer you know you have all these functions plans you're going here you're going there and the meantime I've been working this whole time and all these different things I could have shown tutorials on but having him here you know he works full-time it's just it was all it was to the point where it's almost impossible to do it that way so when I started planning this close and I was looking for different ideas and brainstorming online and I wasn't finding anything I had really decided then that I wanted to show how I was going to do this and we just cannot could coordinate a time to do that how we're going to use the phone and if that worked then all the better all right I don't know if any of you guys have watched any of my blue basting videos on Facebook or the glue basting with the applique video I have here on YouTube if you have it you might want to check that out because we are going to be using the Elmer's glue to secure this shirt and please while we do the we're going to do a zig-zag stitch to keep this down okay I do want to be a little bit precise with this because it is a customer's clue and I try to do a really nice job so alright that's taking me a minute however I just couldn't pass up the opportunity to start bringing you guys some of these videos right now some of that stabilizer is going to get tucked under when we do the applique now the reason I'm going to use the Elmer's glue like these scissors the reason why we're going to use the Elmer's glue guys is because you know the clothing books tend to get heavier and so I'm going to try and eliminate as much weight as I can anywhere that I can so when you wash the quilt with the glue everything washes out there are going to be some blocks and this quilt that I do use like a heat and bond light so we're going to do some applique uh some applique on the embroidery machine and I had this really cool idea for a frame around one of the shirts and with that frame I'm going to use the heat and bond light and kind of expected I had a straight frame in mind for this block so last night I was studying I was looking over the design and an idea came to me for like a scalloped edge so stay tuned for that video because I think it's going to be something that really adds a lot of character to this quilt and since she's given me the freedom to do different designs I'm doing and in my mind it looks fantastic so stay tuned alright now you guys can see we have cut out the t-shirts all of the interfacing is trimmed away and we have the cute list soldier now don't throw away your big scraps like this I keep them in a box because I use them for types of stuff when you're doing applique project with little pieces all kinds of stuff I'm going to set that aside I have already pressed and pre cut my fabric block and so it's ready to go what I do want to do is find out the center lines of this block and so we're just going to fold it one put a press in there and I want to see aligned going this way - all right sometimes it's hard for me to think and to talk and concentrate on what I'm doing here with me fine alright now I can get an idea of where we are because the whole block is larger than my pressing surface so with this t-shirt we are going to caddy corner this shirt not just straight up at home I don't know how I do kind of like it straight up and down II I like it like that too all right let me look at it on my surface where I can see the whole block and this is the art process guys this is quilting style and ear you know what I I hear a lot of people talking about rule then you have to do it this way you have to do it that way but it's your quilt and I say you do it the way that makes you happy and if that breaks some people's rules the overall result is a quote that you love so keep that in mind and focus when you are designing and making your quilt okay you know what I do like it kind of caddy corner so like that all right that's what we're going to go with now also keep in mind that I have cut my blog half an inch bigger to allow for the seam allowances you kind of want to press finger press out that crease that we made to find Center alright hey you guys again revisit my applique do using the Elmer's school glue this is what it looks like in the store and it washes out of your quilt now what we're going to do is we're going to run some glue along the edge of the outline of the shirt and we're going to press that with a dry iron so go ahead and take the steam off and I just do mine little bit at a time so I run some glue right along that theme and we are keep setting the flu and the glue is when I Drive pretty quickly with a hot iron so once you get the whole shirt secured you can move it to the machine you can do your stitching and everything is going to stay in place however just using the glue and not using like a heat and bond the whole block is going to have a lot more flow to it whenever you're doing something with this bigger in size I kind of like to use the glue so that it's not so stiff you know if it's a smaller piece that heat and bond for me heat in one light I do like something that's larger I just like to use this glue it doesn't take a lot to swampy right across and all this going so cute you guys and we're not pressing for very long okay just long enough to set that glue to dry the glue yes that's not going anywhere lose one little piece down at least like that perfect all right now when we take this to the Machine there are several different stitches that you could use to secure the shirt on to your fabric block my favorite for something like this would be a zig zag stitch and so you're going to want to make sure that you remove your quarter-inch presser foot and put on a presser foot that allows your needle to go from side to side to do this exact stitch and because of the nature of the shirt and the fabric and the foot that this is going into I want to use a pretty wide that zig-zag stitch so I've already threaded my machine and got everything set up we're going to do a zig-zag stitch width the length is set at about 1.3 and the width I have used a 5 and that's going to come over and grab the shirt and secure this shirt really well to this fabric and once we're done this shirts not going anywhere okay when we're done with all the quilting and securing everything in place she's going to be able to wash this quote in the washer dryer going to be able to use this quilt and nothing's going to fall off okay I'm going to show you what that looks like okay so good all right it's not focusing focusing on me anyway you kind of get an idea now I'm going to try and there's a camera over to my machine so I get close-ups of my face pardon me I apologize now okay we're all learning together but I do want to let you guys see the process and I don't want to turn off the video until the block is done and up on the wall okay shrink down some more and you see that all right we are using oversee machine now and it should not take that long like I said I've already put on my foot it allows the needle to go from side to side I've already tested out my stitch and I know it's exactly what I want to use on the block oh boy it's hot y'all I'm burning up today new double chin alright here we go here you guys we're going to get started do that look just one more time and you can see better this way yes if it goes out of focus I apologize alright we're going to bring the needle to the right side of the shirt and if your machine has a needle down position you're going to want to go ahead and turn that on so that you can turn and pivot at your corners and turn and we're going to get started you don't have to go fast coming up to a corner again always stopping to the right of the shirt into your background fabric not your shirt fabric so keep that in mind it's going to make your stitches in your turn look way more intentional and a lot more neat and my terms I like to do one stitch then stopping a background before turning and if your machine does not have a needle down position make sure to rotate your wheel so that your needle is in the fabric before you turn it you [Music] little flares are going to turn a little bit like that [Music] I always slow down a little bit as I'm coming up to a turn just like to be in control of my fabric and what's going on because you are the boss not fabric [Music] where I would like one day is a ceasing machine that has a hover foot so that when you stop this little foot sorta just comes up just enough to pivot however I cannot complain about my machine this is a singer patchwork machine and it's a beast okay this machine us pieced together a lot of quilts and most of them memory style quilts with like sinem four pieces of blanket right now you want to mess up blanket and denim give me a second guys ah I know what it is there like turning right there or t-shirt quilts guys this machine has pieced together right when I was dragging on this machine goes in something funky if that happens what I like to do is just secure where I stop and just do a back stitch over where I stopped and where I'm starting now and your stitches are secure we're just going to do that when I'm dragging on this machine maybe it's just mad because I stood up when a machine this has a buffer foot so myself all right we're almost done you guys we were just coming around neck area let's just have a sticker scene so I'm going to go con it slow on that just to make sure my stitches stay nice and free

Channel: Lisa Capen Quilts

Views: 64,485

Keywords: Lisa Capen Quilts, Memory Quilts, T-shirt Quilt, Elmer's Glue, Quilting, Glue Basting, Applique, Quilt Series, raw edge applique, zig zag stitch, sewing, quilt, heirloom quilt, quilting for beginners, quilting tutoral, quilting video

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Length: 33min 11sec (1991 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 30 2017