T-shirt Quilts with Borders

Typically 4 to 6 weeks.

Thought, it will depend on the time of year. Around Christmas and during high school graduation season, it may be closer to 6 to 8 weeks. In January and in August it could be closer to 3 weeks. If it will be longer than 6 weeks, we will let you know. 

If you have a specific date that you need to have your quilt returned by, please indicate this on your order form so we can plan accordingly. 

Note: The turn around time clock begins upon your approval of the size of your quilt. We try to email you size and border options within 2-4 days of receiving your box. We do not start counting time until we hear back from you approving your quilts size. The time does not begin when you ship out your T-shirts.  Please note this in your time frame.

If you are planning on adding a border, you will need fewer T-shirts than you would need without a border.  The larger the border, the fewer the number of T-shirts you will need.

• Starting by figuring out how many T-shirt you have. This will depend on your specific T-shirts. The chart here shows the approximate of the number of T-shirts, sweatshirts or other clothing items it may take to make a quilt of that size without a border.
  
  You may need more T-shirts if the designs on your T-shirts are small. Or you may need fewer if the designs on your T-shirts are big. Count each T-shirt you have as one, whether it has a design just on the front or a design on the front and back.
  
  The more T-shirts you have with fronts and backs means you will need to be on the lower end on the approximate number needed. If you have T-shirts with small designs on just one side, you will need more T-shirts.
  
  
• Now, you will need to reduce the number of T-shirts to get to the size quilt you would like with a border.  The larger the border, the more you will need to reduce the number of T-shirts. 

Generally, we take the T-shirts you send us and cut them. Then we determine what size quilt those T-shirts could make.

We will e-mail you and tell you the dimensions of the quilt that these T-shirts can make with and without a border. At this time you can accept the dimensions of the quilt or you can add or remove T-shirts so the quilt is the size you would like. But if you remove T-shirts at this point, they will have already been cut.

Here's an article comparing the same quilts with and without a border. If you are thinking about a border but just aren't sure - this is a great place to begin. 

How to Decided if You Want a Border on Your T-shirt Quilt

If you start with X number of T-shirts. Let’s say those T-shirts will make a quilt that is 60 x 72 which is a multi-use size quilt. Here’s what happens if you add a border:

• A 2” solid border will increase the quilt size to 64 x 76. We added 2” to each side.
  
  
• A 2” solid + 4” pieced + 2” solid border will increase the size to 76 x 88. We added 8” to each side.

A border on a set size quilt means that the inside of your quilt needs to be smaller.

You will need fewer T-shirts to get to the size quilt you want with a border.

If you want a quilt with a final size of 60 x 72 including a border, this will mean that the inside of your quilt has to be smaller. Let’s take the example from the previous question.

• A 2” solid border will decrease the inside of the quilt to 56 x 68. We subtracted 2” from each side.
• A 2” solid + 4” pieced + 2” solid border will decrease the size to 44 x 56. We subtracted 8” from each side.

Yes.  We can help design a special border for your quilt. Please call for pricing.

Here's an article with many unique styles of borders

A Too Cool Style T-shirt Quilt

A spectacular T-shirt quilt made from your T-shirts.  All the blocks will be different sizes and it will be puzzled together. 

Quilt Binding Your Choice of Color

All Too Cool T-shirt Quilts come with a binding. 

The binding is the material that goes around the outside of the quilt. About ¼" of the binding is seen from the top, the side and the back of a quilt. The binding is used to hide the raw edges of the quilt top, batting and backing materials. 

Our Spectacular Individualized Quilting

The quilting designs on the back of a Too Cool T-shirt quilt are not only fun, they are one of the things that set a Too Cool T-shirt quilt apart from other T-shirt quilts. 

Return Shipping

Return shipping is included in the price of a quilt. There are two exceptions... 

1. Additional shipping charges for Alaska, Hawaii and International orders.
2. Return of Scraps or a lot of extra unused T-shirts. 

Yes, we can use sweatshirts. Once they are in your quilt, it's difficult to tell them apart from T-shirts.

We also can use jersey material - the knit material with holes in it that is used in some football and hockey jerseys. 

Read more about what materials you can use

Backing colors - we have over 350 colors to choose from.

If you want something beyond a standard generally accepted colors, please send a swatch. For example navy, hunter green, red, orange, etc. are colors that are what they are.

But a color like teal or sage - there is more than one interpretation to these colors. So if you would send a swatch of color that would be helpful. You can get a swatch from a paint chip, from one of your T-shirts, a color crayon scribble on a piece of white paper or out of a magazine (circle the color).