When you have a lot of T-shirts and only want a small quilt, you will need to make some choices.

1. Make the quilt larger

2. Remove some pieces

If you know ahead of time that you might have too many T-shirts for the size quilt you are looking for, you can do a few things.

1. Pack your T-shirts into sets. The first set would be the T-shirts that must go into the quilt. The second grouping would be T-shirts that we can cut from if we need to make your quilt larger.

2. Keep a list of the T-shirts you send so if necessary, you can tell us what to remove.

Do you need to make your T-shirts go further? You have a few options.

1. We can cut your T-shirts “big”. This means that there is more space around the design than we would normally cut. If you think that we need to cut your T-shirts big, let us know before we begin cutting.

2. We can also make your quilt larger by adding squares of bright colored T-shirt material. In the two quilts below, we were short on T-shirts to make the quilt the right size. So we extended each T-shirt quilt with colored squares of T-shirt material.

3. A border can be added around the quilt to make the quilt larger. If the border is simple, we do not charge extra for the work. If the border is complex, we will make an additional charge. Note, the border and the binding need to be different colors because we cannot match T-shirt material with the cotton we use for the border. The two fabrics reflect light differently and just don’t look right together.

4. A border and extra block combination is also possible.