Comments on: How to Stabilize T-Shirts for T-Shirt Quilting

By: Christine Mann

Christine Mann — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 16:12:44 +0000

In reply to Linda Donnelly. If I understand you correctly, you could either put a single large piece of stabilizer behind the whole top, or individually put separate pieces of stabilizer behind each section of top, blocks and sashes. One major purpose of the stabilizer is to keep the pieces of top from puckering or getting pulled out of shape while you stitch the top together, so I would lean in the direction of stabilizing each piece of top separately, including putting a piece of stabilizer behind each section of sashing. The thinner and stretchier your top pieces are, the more helpful I think it will be to stabilize each one separately. Hope that helps!

By: Linda Donnelly

Linda Donnelly — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 22:22:49 +0000

I am making a T Shirt quilt for my son-in-law out of baseball Uniforms shirts. Almost every one of them are jersey material, with the tiny breathing holes, so I am using light weight stabilizer. My question is I’m planning on putting sashing between each square, both horizontally and vertically. What would be your suggestion for stabilizing the sashes and boarder material, the fabric is a cotton blend. I can’t decide whether to just run a long strip of stabilizer on each sash or cover the entire back of the front with a strip covering the blocks and the sashes. I’ve heard it can be done either way. I’m not trying to be fancy, as this only my 3rd quilt.

Thank you for your advice!

By: ceg

ceg — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 01:23:24 +0000

In reply to kathy allison. when I have something that won't feed along I put a piece of paper under seems to work ok just have to be careful removing the paper