Thursday, May 23, 2013

Time to try a T-shirt quilt...

One of my sweet SIL's asked if we could put together a T-shirt quilt for their oldest daughter graduating high school soon.....Having never made one, I didn't hesitate to say YES and proceed to look up directions everywhere I could think of!!  ;-)  Feelin' pretty confident now....
                                         She'll be attending this fine university where our oldest son also went. He donated this OLD t-shirt to the cause.
Here's the auditioning of sashing and
arranging...so far I like it. DS's lovely wife helped me pick the patterned fabric. The two smaller squares and an outside border
will be this dark green batik from the stash.
And just because she's so cute--here's a picture of DGD Logan (and her boyfriend Evan) at the ACS Relay for Life this past weekend.
Happy Sewing all!  :-)
 

5 comments:

Shay said...

You'll have to keep a list of tips and no-no's from your personal experience of making this one because I've been collecting T-shirts for months with a view to making one of these for Mr. P.

It takes a lot of T-shirts to make a decent sized quilt.

Barb in Mi said...

You are keeping busy - great t-shirts and love the sashing fabric! If everything fails contact Ruth McC - she knows everything t-shirt quilt related.
What a cute little 'couple'...

Karen said...

Looks great! I have heard of using freezer paper for the t-shirt pieces, did you try that? The squares look perfect!

Allie said...

Have fun making that!!! The biggest thing is to fuse interfacing to the t-shirts before cutting. That way you don't get any stretch. Logan is a little beauty!

Judy in Michigan said...

I'm impressed with your bravery on tackling a T-shirt quilt. They can be buggers. Love the fabrics you and L. picked out. Good tips above!! The picture of the children is just precious - just look at Evan's eyes - LOL