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myurbandreama bit more research about quilts...
from http://interiordec.about.com/od/beds/a/bedsizes.htm -
Comforter Sizes
* Twin--68 x 86 inches (or 173 x 218 cm)
* Full/Queen--86 x 86 inches (or 218 x 218 cm)
* King/California King--100 x 90 inches (or 254 x 229 cm)
so i think what i'm going for is a double aka 'full' bed quilt.
the tile jenni gave me is for a 13"x13" square of tshirt, which fits all but one of the designs i want to keep thus far. if i'm going for a double then i need 6 or 7 rows and columns of shirts. 7x7=49, and 7 units of 13" each would be 91 inches before the border (i've definitely decided not to do sashing, after seeing how well jenni's tshirt quilt looks without it). so a 7x7 at 13" gives me a 91"x91" quilt, plus a few more inches on each side for the border.
so. 49 tiles in a 7x7 square. round to 50 and half that is 25 tshirts that i'll need, minimum, assuming i use the front AND the back of all but one of said tshirts. right now i have 14 that i've picked out, with another two or three i'd be fine to give to the quilt, but that still leaves a good 8 shirts that i'm missing. and that assumes that i use both sides of every shirt, including the blank sides, of which i have about five right now.
however, one of my tshirts has a design that is longer than 13", which i want to keep whole in the quilt, so that one can take up two tiles, with either a smaller design or a blank piece to make up the difference of the second tile. if i do a smaller design, then i'm still using two designs in two tiles, just spaced differently. if i do a blank piece then i'll have 48 designs instead of 49, since that design will take up two tiles. i think i'll still need 25 shirts, though, because i'll have 48 designs in 49 tiles.... right?
on top of that, there are two or three designs that i actively don't want to keep in the quilt, so that loses me a few tiles of the tshirts i have set aside already. so, let's assume i don't include the blanks and i don't include those undesirable designs. of the 14 shirts i have set aside so far... there are two designs i don't want to keep, and four shirts that have one side blank. that knocks out six pieces. so of 14 shirts (28 sides) i actually have 22 pieces for the quilt. but one of those is the double-length, so if i do a blank piece to make up the length, then i actually have 23 pieces. so: 49-23=26. so i need at least 26 more pieces, maybe 27 - that's about 13 more shirts. if i include blanks then that number goes down.
here's a thought: if i use a 14" tile, then... a 6x6 @ 14" would be 6x14"=84" to a side, plus say a 3" border on each side, then that comes to 90"x90" at the end. that could work - it's about 7" smaller than a 7x7 @13", but it's still bigger than the size listed on that website. and then i only need 36 pieces, too: 36-22=14 pieces, or 7 more shirts. i still have the problem of that one design being too long - it's something like 16" i think - but i can solve it in the same way as in a 13" tile.
i like this much better.
from http://interiordec.about.com/od/beds/a/bedsizes.htm -
Comforter Sizes
* Twin--68 x 86 inches (or 173 x 218 cm)
* Full/Queen--86 x 86 inches (or 218 x 218 cm)
* King/California King--100 x 90 inches (or 254 x 229 cm)
so i think what i'm going for is a double aka 'full' bed quilt.
the tile jenni gave me is for a 13"x13" square of tshirt, which fits all but one of the designs i want to keep thus far. if i'm going for a double then i need 6 or 7 rows and columns of shirts. 7x7=49, and 7 units of 13" each would be 91 inches before the border (i've definitely decided not to do sashing, after seeing how well jenni's tshirt quilt looks without it). so a 7x7 at 13" gives me a 91"x91" quilt, plus a few more inches on each side for the border.
so. 49 tiles in a 7x7 square. round to 50 and half that is 25 tshirts that i'll need, minimum, assuming i use the front AND the back of all but one of said tshirts. right now i have 14 that i've picked out, with another two or three i'd be fine to give to the quilt, but that still leaves a good 8 shirts that i'm missing. and that assumes that i use both sides of every shirt, including the blank sides, of which i have about five right now.
however, one of my tshirts has a design that is longer than 13", which i want to keep whole in the quilt, so that one can take up two tiles, with either a smaller design or a blank piece to make up the difference of the second tile. if i do a smaller design, then i'm still using two designs in two tiles, just spaced differently. if i do a blank piece then i'll have 48 designs instead of 49, since that design will take up two tiles. i think i'll still need 25 shirts, though, because i'll have 48 designs in 49 tiles.... right?
on top of that, there are two or three designs that i actively don't want to keep in the quilt, so that loses me a few tiles of the tshirts i have set aside already. so, let's assume i don't include the blanks and i don't include those undesirable designs. of the 14 shirts i have set aside so far... there are two designs i don't want to keep, and four shirts that have one side blank. that knocks out six pieces. so of 14 shirts (28 sides) i actually have 22 pieces for the quilt. but one of those is the double-length, so if i do a blank piece to make up the length, then i actually have 23 pieces. so: 49-23=26. so i need at least 26 more pieces, maybe 27 - that's about 13 more shirts. if i include blanks then that number goes down.
here's a thought: if i use a 14" tile, then... a 6x6 @ 14" would be 6x14"=84" to a side, plus say a 3" border on each side, then that comes to 90"x90" at the end. that could work - it's about 7" smaller than a 7x7 @13", but it's still bigger than the size listed on that website. and then i only need 36 pieces, too: 36-22=14 pieces, or 7 more shirts. i still have the problem of that one design being too long - it's something like 16" i think - but i can solve it in the same way as in a 13" tile.
i like this much better.
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Date: 2010-05-25 12:17 am (UTC)right now i am still in the planning stages, obviously - i haven't even decided where each design is going to go, yet - but when it comes time to start cutting things and putting them together, i am so there! it's mainly the putting things together stage that i'll need help with, 'cause how hard is cutting up a tshirt, really? but i do NOT want to sew all of this together by hand. so.... sewing machine?
oh, and - what's jersey?