Beyond the Tee-Innovative T-Shirt Quilts: 9 Extraordinary Designs, Tips for Working with Ties & Other Clothing

by Jen Cannizzaro, Mary Cannizzaro

Overview

Expand your idea of what a T-shirt quilt can be! Create nine innovative projects from T-shirts, clothing solids, prints, motifs, onesies, ties—anything goes! Learn how to cut into clothing and maximize your fabric, even altering a design to fit special tees. Solve common challenges like motifs separated by zippers and logos that are too big or too small. With a few T-shirt quilt basics under your belt, you’ll soon become an expert at preserving the past.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781617459078
Publisher:	C & T Publishing
Publication date:	07/25/2020
Pages:	80
Sales rank:	969,512
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Mary Cannizzaro and Jen Cannizzaro are mother and daughter, friends, and business partners in quilting. In 2014, the duo opened Cannizzaro Creations, a quilting studio in Rockland, Massachusetts. They have been commissioned to create dozens of quilts. canquilt.com

Editorial Reviews

05/18/2020

Mary and Jen Cannizzaro, the mother-daughter founders of quilting shop Cannizzaro Creations, offer an exciting intro to the craft of making quilts using fabric from T-shirts. Though T-shirt quilts often consist of little more than T-shirt fronts, typically taken from a keepsake garment, cut into squares, and slapped onto a quilt, the Cannizzaros offer designs of hexagons, diamonds, and ovals. They “fillet” T-shirts (as one would a fish) so as to maximize the fabric available, advising, “Think before you cut!” They address problems, such as a motif being too high, small, or big, and dispense “tips for success” (e.g., “On large quilts, it is helpful to find and pin two additional points on the quilt and border midway between the center and quilt edges for increased accuracy”).Their quilt basics start with the essential stabilizer, such as fusible interfacing—nothing too stiff—and ¼-inch seams. Among the nine projects detailed, the Cannizzaros include a quilt made from T-shirts associated with travel to different places, and another made from an enthusiastic athlete’s different team shirts. For each block, they cover construction, assembly, and suggestions for alternate ideas and labels. This how-to will be a boon to any quilter looking for a new challenge. (July)

Publishers Weekly