Sew with Jo! Quilting with Recycled Shirts: Finding the Straight of the Grain
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- Join me today as I show you how to find the straight of the grain when working with recycled shirts to make quilts.
A viewer and blog reader of mine asked me if I would do a video on this topic. I'm always open to suggestions so feel free to ask for a video.
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I do make mention of my new camera that we used for filming. It was WONDERFUL! I'm so please with it!! Here is a link to the one I purchased: amzn.to/3CrRti0
I keep checking for new videos! 😂 I don't read blogs, but do enjoy your You Tube videos. I especially like to see you using your scraps. Thats what I've been trying to do lately. Keep them coming, please! ❤
Thanks for this video. My Aunt made a quilt years ago from some of my Uncle's shirts after he died, and she found it to be a great comfort to have them become something she could use all the time.
Memory quilts are extra special.
When he passed away last year, I collected many of the shirts my beloved friend wore. I have cut those up and will use them to make a quilt. Just waiting for a pattern to inspire me. I wish now that I had kept ALL the 100% cotton shirts he had.
Great tips about matching stripes or plaids. Thanks for your inspiration and so many tips to make our quilting easier and more productive.
Thanks. I'm sure your memory quilt will be wonderful.
Where is a good place to find a pattern for a memory quilt?
New to your channel and new to shirt quilting. Your first quilt is gorgeous! Looks like a lot of love in that quilt and I'm sure many memories ❤
Totally enjoying your videos! I have one of the Cresto Lady quilts on my longarm now for a local nursing home!
I would like to sew along with the book. I don't see the book link?
Ooops. Here's the link. amzn.to/3JPjVP6
Boy did I get a surprise. I got some quilting magazines at the thrift store and was looking through them. And what to my wondering eyes appeared (in the Feb 22 American Patchwork and Quilting issue), but a quilt by you and Kellie! It was quite the beauty and a great replica of the vintage quilt that you showed with it.
Thanks for sharing great video
Thanks for watching
How come I don’t see your tutorials anymore? The latest is 3 months ago. Are I ok?
I have made one quilt top using men's shirts. In our area the shirts are mostly plaid. My concern was that the 100% cotton seemed much thinner than other fabrics. Your thoughts on this? (My best thrift store find was 4 shirts for $2. And I bought a 5x for little to nothing that has a HUGE amount of fabric to use.)
As I said in the video, I have a 100% cotton shirt quilt that has been with our family for 10 years. It has gotten the worst kind of wear and it's still doing great.
Have yall just quit youtube?
Your quilts out of shirts are a hundred prozent of beauty . Have a nice day Jo
Thanks so much!!
Thank you for the tips working with shirts! Have a great day
You are so welcome!
Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it
Beautiful quilts. If you do your research on quilts you will find all quilts was made from old clothing. No one could afford fabric to make a quilt. I have quilts my grandmother made and they’re over 90 years old and we use a couple of them and I have mend some of them and we still use them . But I have some we have never used and they’re still beautiful. So use shirts aren’t a new thing it’s the older way to make quilts. I’m going to get the book and make some quilts for shirts I use old sheets all the time on the back of my quilts. Thank you for sharing and taking me back to the good old days of making quilts. God bless you and your family I love your videos.
Thanks so much for leaving a comment and sharing.
This was a great help! Thank you!
Glad it helped!
I found a 6X one time for $1.49. I always look thru the racks for the largest cotton shirts.
Great idea.
Thanks for these tips Jo, when I have enough shirts cut up I would like to try and make a Bonnie Hunter quilt too, I have a couple of her books so just need to find more cotton shirts and pick a pattern!
You can do it!
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So beautiful quilts so what do you do as far as sleeves you cut strips and back you cut squares ? Or you do what ever I love the scrappy idea to have them cut to have on hand
I use sleeves for whatever type of piece I need.
Another great video, Jo. Loved seeing how you use shirts in your quilts.
Thanks so much!
Love your videos! In your kitchen, your sewing room, your dining room, with dogs in the background, maybe some grandkids. Looks like real life to me! Your quilts made from shirts are beautiful. To me, the value of a quilt is measured in how much it's used.
Yes! Thank you!
Love all videos. Have not done one with shirts yet. To me they look homie
I love them because they look manly.
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Thanks for stopping by!!
Great video! I am right there with you with the take it easy on yourself with the "perfection" fear. Doing our best is always a win!
Yes! Thank you!