How To Use a Hat in a Memory or T-Shirt Quilt

Using Hats in a T Shirt Quilt 

Wow, you have a favorite hat from your favorite baseball team, favorite hobby or pastime. Hubby has a favorite hat that has an obscure image from  the insert of a 45 record adapter that you use to play on a record player. Whatever your hat represents, you probably want to include it in your t-shirt quilt.  The image represents YOU!

We have had mixed opinions over the years on whether we can include the logos from a hat in a t-shirt quilt.

Steps to use a hat logo in a quilt:

·        Rough cut out the logo/image from the quilt
·        Apply a fusible glue to the backside of image (Heat N Bond)
·        Use special templates to create a pleasing shape, resulting in a 'badge' circle or oval shape.
·        Additional layout, to determine 'where' to add the badge
·        Iron the badge to the quilt top.
·        Stitch around the badge to the quilt top with matching thread color.

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Quilt the quilt top.  usually causing a thickness that may or may not quilt with the quilting machine.  Sometimes, if the thickness is excessive, the computer will stitch 'around' the badge instead of through it.

All of those steps add about 20-30 minutes to the process of prepping your quilt.  We normally charge $7.50  to $10.00 for a standard  "combine".  Including a hat image takes a huge amount of time and will generally add an additional charge.