What happens to your T-shirts at Too Cool T-shirt Quilts...
| 1. Your T-shirts arrive at Too
Cool T-shirt Quilts. You can ship your T-shirts UPS, FedEx Ground or via the US Post office. Generally the Post Office is more expensive. |
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| 2. We set up to cut your
T-shirts. During this process we create a label with your name on it and
put the label on a clear plastic box. In this box we keep all the cut
blocks and paper work.
We try to cut your box of T-shirts within 48 hours of arriving at our door. Our goal is to get your t-shirt in a plastic box as soon as possible. |
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| 3. Your T-shirts are cut. In
the background of this photograph you can see the "Queue Rack". This
storage rack holds all the boxes of cut |
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| 4. We count how many bocks of
each size you have. 5. All the bock are put into your box and we calculate the size of the quilt and then either e-mail or call you with the size. Anytime your box is not being worked on, it is stored in the queue rack. After the shirts are cut, your box will wait in line behind quilts that have arrived before yours. We will only open one box at a time. |
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| 6. Upon your approval of the quilt size, a map of your quilt is drawn with the aid of a computer drafting program. |
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| 8. Next, each of your blocks is assigned a spot on the map. |
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| 9. Then we sew the quilt top. |
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| 10. Long arm machine quilting of your quilt. An i-pod is a must for this step. |
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| Each block on your quilt gets
it's own special quilting design. The designs are either doodles or
tracings.
The block with Pooh and Tigger is quilted from the front and the quilting shows up on the back of the quilt in reverse. Without the image on the front, I would not be able to quilt (draw) this design. This means that without something to trace, I cannot free hand designs. I am just not that good. I try to trace at least one design on each quilt. |
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| 11. The quilt is bound. The binding is a strip of fabric that runs around the edge of the quilt that finished the raw edge of the top, batting and backing material. |
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| 12. Cleaning all the strings off the quilt. |
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| 13. Signing the quilt. |
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| 14. Packaging up the quilt.
Most of the time we return ship your T-shirt Quilt via UPS. |
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