I have been working on this t-shirt quilt for my SIL this week. I got the t-shirts when I was out there last summer....yes, I am slow...so wanted to get it finished for his birthday next week. If you are reading this Angie, don't tell, I want him to be surprised when it comes. He has probably forgotten that I took them, it has been so long! He loves music so we decided to use some music prints and picked out a beautiful fabric with gold instruments on it for the border. I am off to sew these blocks together now and maybe get it finished today so I can quilt it.
Friday, June 19, 2009
T-shirt quilt
I have been working on this t-shirt quilt for my SIL this week. I got the t-shirts when I was out there last summer....yes, I am slow...so wanted to get it finished for his birthday next week. If you are reading this Angie, don't tell, I want him to be surprised when it comes. He has probably forgotten that I took them, it has been so long! He loves music so we decided to use some music prints and picked out a beautiful fabric with gold instruments on it for the border. I am off to sew these blocks together now and maybe get it finished today so I can quilt it.
Very nice! That is one type of quilt that I have never made.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful job Jean!!! Love all the music fabrics ... perfect touch. Good luck w/putting it together and getting it quilted and Happy Father's Day to the Dad's in your world :)
ReplyDeleteThat is really nice, he will love it
ReplyDeleteThis will be a memorable quilt. I like your fabric choices. One of these is on my lengthy list of things to do.
ReplyDeletevery nice Jean. I just recently saw a tutorial for this on Fons and Porter.
ReplyDeleteIt's looking great! You reminded me that I am supposed to be making one of these also...for my nephew. I've had the shirts for years!!!
ReplyDeletethat's cool . . . what happened to the green pants? If you didn't use them, please send them back. Those are very special to me.
ReplyDeleteI decided to post the meanings behind all the shirts:
ReplyDelete1.) Bumbershoot t-shirt (a music/arts fest in Seattle)
2.) a shirt from a marketing project Colin worked on in school
3.) Black Cat, Salem MA
4.) a Celtic shirt I bought Colin right after we met and I traveled to Boston
5.) Late Night - Letterman
6.) Chinatown shirt one of my sisters gave him
7.) front shirt from #2 and #3
8.) Bumbershoot the first year we lived in Seattle
9.) Slam Omaha with the Buzz
10.) shirt from a conference he went to in school
11.) The Edge, an old radio station in omaha
12.) the shirt I was wearing the first time Colin saw me