How it works
Five steps.
From the shirts in your closet to the keepsake on your bed. The only fiddly part is deciding which shirts to send.
Design it online
Quilt, blanket or mosaic, the size — one of ours or your own dimensions — and the backing. You'll see the price of the quilt as you go, though nothing is settled until we have your shirts in front of us.
Start with $200
A $200 deposit holds your place in the queue. It comes off the price of the quilt — you settle the rest later, once it's laid out and you've seen it.
Mark it finished
Photograph your shirts, arrange them, and when it looks right, mark the quilt finished. Or ask us to do the arranging — mark it finished anyway, and we'll lay it out once your shirts arrive. This is the step that tells us you're ready.
Wash and post them
Wash and dry the shirts as you normally would — no ironing — or add cleaning for $20 and send them as they are. Ask for your prepaid label from your account whenever you're ready, print it, and tape it to any box. No cutting, no folding, no prep.
It comes back finished
We check every shirt against your layout before anything is cut, fuse a backing to each one so the knit behaves, sew the blocks together, quilt it, bind the edge, and post it back to you ready to give.
Quilt, blanket, or mosaic?
The first thing the order form asks. It takes about thirty seconds to know which one you want.
There are really only two decisions here. Quilt or blanket is about how it’s made. Mosaic is about how it’s laid out — a Mosaic is a quilt too, just not in an even grid.
T-Shirt Quilt
Three layers: your shirts on the front, soft batting in the middle, fabric on the back. Stitched all the way across to hold the layers together.
Feels like: Warm and substantial, like a proper bed quilt.
Choose it if: You want the thing that gets kept, used and handed on.
T-Shirt Blanket
Two layers: your shirts and a soft backing, joined around the edge. No batting in between and no stitching across the middle.
Feels like: Light and drapey, more like a throw over the back of a sofa.
Choose it if: You want something to actually use every day, for less.
Mosaic Quilt
A T-Shirt Quilt — same three layers — but the blocks are different sizes fitted together instead of one even grid. You arrange it yourself in the Design Studio.
Feels like: The same as the quilt. It's the front that's different, not the build.
Choose it if: Your shirts are all different sizes, or you want a layout nobody else has.
Not sure? Take the T-Shirt Quilt. It’s what most people mean when they picture this, and you can still change your mind before you send anything. The longer comparison is here.
Step one also asks how you want it laid out
Same shirts, same sizes, same everything else — just a different arrangement of the blocks.
A grid — every block the same
Even rows and columns, 12″ or 15″ blocks, in one of our sizes or dimensions you choose yourself. The classic T-shirt quilt, and the one to pick if you have a stack of ordinary tees and want them to look orderly. A single block can be divided in two — side by side or one above the other — and either half divided again, so a small pocket logo doesn't have to sit alone in a 15-inch block.
Lay it out yourself, or leave it to us.
A Mosaic — blocks of any size
You set every block's width and height, down to a single inch. A jersey number can run thirty inches wide with a race bib as a small square beside it, and plain one-inch patches of colour filling in around them — nothing gets trimmed to fit a grid it was never going to suit.
Blocks of any size, arranged around your shirts. Lay it out yourself, or leave it to us. Quilts only, not blankets.
You choose on the order form, and you can change your mind up until you check out.
The paper is a ruler inside your photo.
Same shirt. A camera can't tell size.
phone held close
phone held far
One shirt, two photos. Closer looks bigger, farther looks smaller — the photo alone has no idea how big it really is.
Add the paper — it's always 8.5 × 11.
paper beside the shirt
it shrinks with the shirt
The paper shrinks and grows in the photo exactly like the shirt does. Since a sheet is always 8.5 × 11 inches, both photos now measure true.
The same 12″ block, in both photos.
Because the paper tells us the scale, a 12 × 12 inch block lands on the same spot at the same real size — no matter how close or far the photo was taken.
The paper is only ever in the photograph. It never touches the quilt.
It takes about ten seconds a shirt, once, and it is what lets the Design Studio show every shirt at its real size against a real block — so you know what each square will show before anything is cut.
What works
Almost any shirt.
Cotton tees, jerseys, polos, long-sleeves, hoodies, sweatshirts — even shirts with pockets, embroidery, or sequins. We fuse a light woven backing onto every square before it's cut, which turns a stretchy knit into a stable piece of cloth that won't pull out of shape.
- College & university
- Sports & jerseys
- Greek life
- Band & music
- Military service
- Race & event tees
- Memorial keepsakes
- Kids' outgrown
Shipping, both ways
Free both ways on quilts over $300 — there and back, nothing to pay. Under that it's $20 a quilt, charged with the balance rather than the deposit. While we're still waiting for your shirts you can ask for your prepaid label from your account whenever you're ready, and it's emailed to you — one label per order, and if you need another just reply to your order email. If you've asked us to photograph or lay out your quilt we send one straight away, because we can't work with shirts we don't have.
Turnaround
Typically four to six weeks from the day your shirts arrive, though it moves with demand. We work through quilts in the order they reach us — no queue-jumping, whoever asks loudest.
Got a date?
Tell us when you order, or email any time after. A graduation, a birthday, an anniversary of a loss — we will always do our best to work around it, and we'd far rather know early than be told the week before.
Made to be used
Machine wash cold, tumble dry low. It's a keepsake, but it isn't a museum piece — the whole point is that it ends up on a bed rather than in a box.