Sunday, July 24, 2011

What to do with those beloved T shirts...

My daughter in law wanted a T shirt quilt as she didn't want to toss all her old T shirts and the memories that went with them. I said "of course"! I requested she pick the fabric as this is a really personal type project. She made some very nice choices. I used the Bernina Stitch Regular on my Artista 630E as I'm not too practiced with free form machine quilting. I don't really quilt - only when I need a quilt! This how the front turned out:

Since I used a quilt-as-you-go technique (no way was I forcing the whole quilt under this machine) so the back was pretty interesting too.

I wish this idea was around when I had some well loved T shirts but then quilting would have never occured to me at the time!

3 comments:

  1. What a great idea to make a quilt. And quilt as you go sounds so much less challenging. I like the way it came out.

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  2. Thanks! I asked if she wanted two different backing fabrics and she did so it made it even more interesting in the back.

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  3. Annette, this is one great looking quilt---what a fabulous idea!

    I wish I cold sew.

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