How to make a quilt from T Shirts

 Meri Kay tackled this challenge to make a quilt from her daughter's swimming T Shirts.  Her is how to do it.

 gather the shirts you want to use together of course.

 Choose which parts of them you want to cut out for your quilt.
 Lay them out together and arrange them then you will know just what you need and add strips of contrasting fabric to give them a flow of harmony together.
Now, the trick, before you sew it together. Use this wonderful fusible interfacing pictured below.  It turns the stretchy knit fabric into stable firm fabric just like the woven quilt fabric you will use to piece it all together.

after fusing the pieces then sew them all together as you designed it.  She chose a light weight batting to sandwich in between the top and the back. Then ....

 then pin the front and back together in several places not far apart and quilt by machine or by hand.  You can see that Meri Kay is using a great machine to quilt hers.  She used a wavy design.  Couldn't be more appropriate for a swimmer could ti!

Here is a picture of the finished quilt with the back flipped up so you can see it.  She now has one happy swimmer!