I like my letters to be a bit wonky, so I like to start out with a slant. You in no way have to do that. You can begin your t with three rectangles - the middle one is the letter fabric.

 

 This is what it looks like when I lay them right sides together. Notice how the letter fabric bumps up a bit. You need that, or again the letter will turn out shorter than expected. My seam allowance is going to go right thru where the two angles meet, if you see what I mean. I never get this exact, so don't worry much about it.

 

 I opened this up and trimmed straight across the top and bottom. Now I could join the bits together as they are...

... but I decided I wanted the t to taper a bit towards the top. [This is a completely unnecessary step - feel free to skip.]

So I overlapped these two pieces by about a quarter inch and then made another slice. Then I sewed the side piece on (you'll again need to bump up the more angular side). The taper is practically unnoticeable in the final t, but it's there.

 

 Now whether you started with a slant or not, the next step is the same for everybody: slice across the unit. You can make this at a slant or not. The slice should be towards the top (keeping in mind you'll be losing a half inch in seam allowances) unless you want a more radical letter.

 And then a strip is inserted, and all the sections rejoined to make your t. Here are some that I made for my bed quilt and didn't end up using. They've all been cut down, added to, or left alone where necessary so that they are all 4.25" high.

 The f needs that extra bar across the top, but otherwise it's very similar in construction to the t. I've sewn a background rectangle to a letter fabric rectangle. Meanwhile I've sewn a much smaller rectangle across the top of a letter strip. Sew those together and trim even.

     

 And now you're ready to make it just like the t.

Lower-Case a, e & g!
 

Now we have lower-case a, e, and g. Little e is the exact same as little a, so to simplify the instructions, I'm going to just make two a's. These can be a bit confusing, but they're not actually that hard. Here we go.

 Make three little c's. Hmm, this seems familiar. This is a basic starting point for lots of these little letters.
 

  Now you're going to add some background fabric - I use a fairly narrow strip here. The background goes on top of little a and below little g.

   

 [Note that on the first a I had a slant going, but I straightened up the top of the background, rather than having that slant as well.] Next step is to add letter fabric along that length of background. This will determine the maximum height of your letter.

 And the final step is to add that long bit of letter fabric along the right-hand side (the side that both background bits touch).

Lower-Case r & n

Now we're nearing the end of the tutorial. Last up are lower-case r, n, m, and w. These are letters that you can make really easily or else throw in some slants. It's completely up to you.

A simple r could look like this:

 A simple n would just have a strip of letter fabric down that right-hand side (an upside-down u). An m and w would be an upper-case E knocked over. I made Star Light with letters this way. Oh, and you can make m and w just like you made the upper-case ones.

I like angles, so I make my letters like this:

 Now you could say "Tonya, why don't you do your u's with slants too?" And the answer to that is, I don't know why I just don't.

Start with a rectangle of background fabric and slice across it somewhere in the upper region. Kinda goes up and over to the right.
 

 Insert a strip. On my r, I made it tapered, just like I did the t. After you've inserted the strip and trimmed up, add the letter fabric on the left-hand side.

 

After you've added the strip on the right side for the n, it looks a bit bizarre. You'll lose that weird spot once you lose that top seam allowance, like the example on the right.'

Lower-Case m & w!

And here's m and w made exactly the same way. Little w is just an m upside-down.


 You'll need two long rectangles of background with slices inserted the same as in the r. This will make ONE m or ONE w.

 Just to give you an idea of how I sew these. If this confuses you, then ignore it. I line up the bottom part of the background at the END of a letter strip.

 

 Flip them over right-sides together and sew. Notice that I have a quarter inch of the letter strip sticking down at the bottom. Ya gotta have that whenever you work with angles.

 Fold it back out and THEN cut straight along the background.

 Add the bit of background to the top and then sew fabric along the right side of both pieces. You can sew these together now or...
 

 ... make the middle leg shorter by adding background across the bottom of it. You may need to shorten it before you do that. Feel free to skip this step.

Join those together and then sew a letter strip along the left-hand side and voila, an m or w.