Finished a t-shirt quilt this week. And a few pillows. The pillows are super cute, to be honest. Simple, effective, and a great way to use t-shirts that don’t (ahem) fit into the quilt top. Or were forgotten from the quilt top.
Tag Archives: t-shirt quilt
Graduation Quilt
Quilted. Bound. Labeled. Hope the graduate likes it!
Bias Binding
My back has been out for two days. I’m taking advantage of being in bed. Bias binding and Chris Hemsworth.
I Love Making Quilts
I love making quilts. I recently made a t-shirt quilt as a surprise from a mother to her son. Her son is eleven and the family moved rather unexpectedly. Rory has played a lot of youth baseball and Donna kept his jerseys through the years. I added a few details from the shirts on theContinue reading “I Love Making Quilts”
Beautiful words
Last fall a lovely woman asked me to make a quilt for her daughter for Christmas. Her daughter had recently gone off to college and she wanted to make her high school t shirts into a quilt. I was happy to make it for her, and I love making t shirt quilts. She picked upContinue reading “Beautiful words”
Two for the Road
Yeah, yeah. Not talking about alcohol, but the two quilts I made for Mrs. T. Over the years she kept all her sons’ soccer and basketball jerseys. I’ve assembled them into quilts for them for Christmas. I finished sewing borders on the quilts today. You can barely see it, but in the corners of theContinue reading “Two for the Road”
Doing the things
Even during the holiday insanity I somehow managed to find time to quilt. I am teaching a new class at the shop this quarter. Quilting 102. Basically the class will teach beginning quilters how to sew triangles and get perfect points, flying geese and a few new quilting techniques. I hope the class is aContinue reading “Doing the things”
Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Thanksgiving is over and Christmas will be here soon. I finished this commissioned piece. I’m really proud of it and think it turned out really well! I have the body of B’s two quilts assembled. Here’s a close up of one. I am hoping to get borders on this week. Yeah! Oh, what a reliefContinue reading “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”