Too Cool T-shirt Quilt’s, puzzled style layout allows you to use a variety of block sizes. You can have a pillow made from just one T-shirt or from up to 10 T-shirts. We long-arm quilt our T-shirt pillows. This adds texture, stability, and uniqueness to our pillows.
To keep our pillows simple, we avoid zippers. Rather, the pillow has an overlapped opening in the back. This makes it easy to make and to get the pillow form in and out of the pillowcase.
Our pillows are machine washable. We suggest you don’t use these pillows for your sleeping pillow. Over years of use, the T-shirts will wear out. T-shirt pillows are a step-up from a decorative pillow, but not an every-night sleeping pillow.
Below are several possible reasons you might have a T-shirt pillow made rather than a quilt.
Below are several possible reasons you might have a T-shirt pillow made rather than a quilt.
You may want a smaller, more functional quilt made and have too many T-shirts for the size you want. Putting some of these excess T-shirts into a pillow is a perfect solution. You use all the T-shirts and get the quilt the size you would like.
You might just not have enough T-shirts for a quilt. To celebrate the T-shirts you do have, a pillow is the solution.
By removing those odd ball T-shirts from your quilt, you will have a better-looking quilt and an awesome pillow.
The photo here shows a perfect example of when some T-shirts would ruin a quilt.
If we would have added the neon T-shirts into the quilt here, they would have made the quilt look awful.
By separating the neon T-shirts out, we kept the quilt to the traditional Texas colors.
Carefully choose T-shirts to represent the story you want to tell in T-shirts. Avoid duplicate topics if you have way too many T-shirts. Careful planning will help you create a pillow that is as special as a quilt.
T-shirt quilts tell a story. If you add T-shirts into a quilt that don’t relate to the story, it’s odd. Read more about that here.
For example, all the T-shirts in the quilt are about high school. Except four T-shirts from 5K races run in grade school. Those four shirts don’t belong in a high school themed T-shirt quilt. Those T-shirts would be perfect candidates for a pillow.
Read more about single T-shirt pillows here.
Finally, T-shirt pillows are just fun. You might want to consider having a quilt and pillow made for from your T-shirts.
Planning a T-shirt quilt?
Here are step-by-step directions for ordering your Too Cool T-shirt quilt.
If you have one special T-shirt, consider having it transformed into a T-shirt pillow.
There isn't much to planning for a One T-shirt pillow. You simply pick your favorite T-shirt and have it made. Read more about pillows made with just one T-shirt here.
We suggest numbering your T-shirt’s from 1 to 10. As we work with your T-shirts, we will start with number one. We then build the pillow until we run out of room. We will return any unused T-shirts with your pillow.
Don’t let the term “T-shirt pillow” fool you into thinking that you can only use T-shirts. We can use anything that is machine washable in a pillow. This means you can get creative and use what’s important.
But!!!! Remember, your face may be on your pillow at times. So please consider how each item you include feels against your face.
Below are just some of the items have used in a quilt or a pillow.
T-shirt pillows are as much fun and as usable as a T-shirt quilt. Below are some photographs of just a very few of the pillows we have made.
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