QUILTING
Thank you for stopping by and checking out NeedleOnFull! T-shirt quilts are great keepsakes and my hope is to keep your treasured memories alive with many of your shirts, jerseys, jackets, pajamas, or really anything I can get my needle through. So clean out those drawers of T-shirts and other fabric mementos and let's get started on a one-of-a-kind quilt that you or your loved one will love to cuddle up with on the sofa!
Services
A one-stop-shop for your drawer full of T-shirts!
Design
Planning and designing quilt layouts, block structures, textures, and color palettes.
Fabric
Fine fabrics hand-selected and sourced from both local and national producers.
Equipment
Tabletop and Avante Long-Arm machines allowing for maximum detail and scaling.
Batting
The middle layer of the quilt for ultimate comfort, softness, and warmth.
Binding
Carefully selected fabric to frame the edge of the quilt for a beautiful and durable finish.
Quilting
A creative eye and skilled hands to thread everything together into your treasured keepsake.
Quilt Care — When T-shirt quilts or other quilts are completed, I provide a copy of Quilt Care 101 (credit Christen Phillips, iseestarsquilting.com), which includes instructions for both hand or machine washing almost any quilt. Download a copy here.
What Clients are Saying
Testimonial Spotlight
“They” say we need to feed and update our website regularly, if we have one. I do. I’m not doing a very good job of adding new stuff, but I need to. When I completed a quilt for a young man in Maryland in the summer of 2025, I asked him if he wouldn’t mind writing a testimonial. Trey, my customer, wrote one up the next day and sent it to me right quick. I was not only thankful, but gobsmacked by his writing!
Here is what Trey wrote:
“I cannot say enough about the amazing quilt Mrs. Tomoff created for me. She took a collection of my old shirts—each holding special memories—and transformed them into a beautiful, double-sided quilt. The craftsmanship is outstanding: the stitching is clean, the layout is thoughtful, and the fabric border ties everything together perfectly.
What really stands out is how much care and detail went into every square on both the front and the back. This isn’t just a quilt—it’s a memory piece. Every time I look at it, I see moments from my past preserved in a way that’s both personal and practical.
Mrs. Tomoff has a true gift, not just for quilting, but for transforming sentimental items into something you can keep and use for years to come. I’ll cherish this blanket forever, and I’d recommend her work to anyone who wants to preserve their memories in such a meaningful way.”
—Trey Bailey
My Quilting Journey
As most people know, I LOVE to quilt and sew. When I was a new bride living in North Olmsted, Ohio, in 1987, I found a local family-owned quilt shop less than a mile away. I had wanted to learn how to quilt since I was 14 years old. The timing was prime 11 years later for me to take my first beginner class at a shop called “Hoops & Hollars.” Years later, when I cleaned out my mom’s house, I found a quilt book and some fabric in the basement that my mom must have purchased when I was first interested—the bicentennial year of 1976! And then it hit me; my mom was afraid of math and fractions that were in the book. So, instead, she taught me how to crochet. I still have my crocheted Betsy Ross 13 Colony Flag I created in the 8th grade.
Fast forward to 1996 when my family picked up our Ohio stakes and settled in Crofton, Maryland. My husband’s job in the sports and entertainment industry led him to his job in Washington, DC. I quilted and sewed as much as time allowed while working and raising a family. When my son got sick (leukemia) in the fall of 1996, creating and sewing kept me balanced. I brought hand-work to the hospital, and even brought my featherweight and an iron to work on several projects.
After about a year or so living in Maryland, I met a military family with three boys (one the same age as my son) and became fast friends with the mom. She was a quilter and invited me to a quilt guild meeting in the next town over (Bowie, MD). Since I was available during one of the meeting times, I tagged along. It was the best decision of my life! I met a whole slew of kindred spirits who loved quilting and sewing as much as I did!
I had just met my tribe. I reached out and attended meetings when I could and became friends with many women from all walks of life—our common denominator—the creative art of quilting.
The guild, and eventually the bees I joined, gave me confidence in my skills and more. Plus, I was learning everything I could from the others through guild-offered classes and retreats. Not long after our arrival in Maryland, a very close friend of ours was having a milestone birthday. I wanted to do something special for him, a quilt, and emptied our drawers of many special track meet T-shirts to make my first T-shirt quilt (the guy I made it for was the connector to meeting my husband at the track meet—as timer officials,not participants). The T-shirt quilt was so well received I did a couple of more for friends and family, and then it grew over the next 15 years.
Since the longest part of a project was the quilting (I used to hand-quilt for years), I broke down and bought a used long-arm (primitive setup) to help with all the quilting of T-shirt quilts and traditional quilts too.
Today, I’m on my third pre-owned long-arm (Handi Quilter Aventé) with a thriving T-shirt quilt business. I am truly grateful for each day. My clients find me mostly by word of mouth and the internet, and to date I’ve created hundreds of quilts for people in over 10 states.
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