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The backing material is the fabric that you see on the back of a quilt. There are many quality levels available for quilters to choose from.
(Example: Too Cool T-shirt Quilts® uses 100% high quality quilting fabric by Robert Kaufman)
The front of a T-shirt blanket is made up of T-shirt blocks pieced together. But the piecing of the blocks for the blanket does not make it a quilt. A T-shirt blanket is made up of just two layer – the top is the pieced T-shirt blocks and the back is typically a fleece of other heavier fabric. The two layers of a blanket are not typically connected to each other. A quilt differs from a blanket because a quilt has three layers that are all connected with quilting.
A panograph quilting pattern uses the same repeating pattern throughout the quilt. The quilter, standing behind the long-arm machine, uses a laser pointer to follow a line pattern that set in the bed of the quilting machine. The quilter works from left to right and makes one pass at the design. The quilt is then forwarded and the quilter will make a second pass with the same design.
Tech fabric is also known as microtech fabric. These are fabrics that are great at wicking sweat away from your body. Tech fabric is extremely soft and feels great to the touch. Tech fabric can be used in a T-shirt Quilt.
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Theme T-shirt quilts are exactly what they sound like – a quilt made from T-shirts of a specific theme. Themes can range from a favorite sports teams to fictional character, from places to holidays.
(Example: Below is a Too Cool T-shirt Quilts® made completely of dog shirts! To view more photos, click on it.)
Tracing is done with a long-arm machine. The long-arm quilting artist will trace a design on a T-shirt on the front side of the quilt. You can see the tracing on the back of the quilt as a mirror image of the design on the front T-shirt. Tracing a number of items on a quilt makes the back of the quilt look as cool as the front!
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