So, this is the T-Shirt Memory Quilt that i have been working on, that i mentioned once before, when i was first getting into it. You can see that post by clicking, Preserving Memories.
I’ll tell you a little about what you are seeing in this picture here…
So, I decided that i didn’t want to do an everyday T Shirt Quilt like all the other ones that i had seen. I did a little research and i found one that was rarely pictured, had only a few tutorials that you could follow (i only skimmed lightly while researching so this could be really popular on the outskirts of my search community and I just don’t know.), I really enjoy the eye-catching pattern (3D) , and it is still relatively simple to do.
Well, speaking of easy.. I’m at a point in the quilt where I know that it is going to start to get a little more difficult with way more ways to mess it the “F” up.
You see, when my father in law first gave me all the T-shirts for this quilt, I originally had 15 shirts picked out of a bunch of “like” event shirts of a particular town. This was the first original brainstorm layout for those first 15.
Now, I was super excited about making this particular quilt before i even had a chance to look at the shirts because of the history behind it and that hasn’t changed but i remember feeling a little bummed when i was piecing these first 15 blocks together to try to come up with a complimentary layout for the colors and design of each shirt.
But that was my real problem, there was practically no color in this design. I mean, every shirt has some kind of color in it yes, but for me to have to piece together 5 different shades of white squares together knowing that these shirts weren’t complimenting each other by themselves really sucked.
Well, John came to the rescue and gave me 5 more of his shirts, specifically selected to give me the color i desperately needed and would inevitably give him the bigger quilt he was wanting. ( Which, as you can see{from the first picture}, we definitely achieved the size. I was wanting to add a contrasting border to the sashing (the red plaid fabric) after i was able to finish the main pieces of the quilt top but from this layed out outline of our beast, it doesn’t look like that will be possible, or a good idea.
I’m already going to have a rough time piecing this whole thing together with my simple everyday sewing machine. I am not at all a 100% sure that ill be able to do the quilting of it at all on my machine. (I will figure it out.)
Alright, well, I’ll keep you posted on how it coming along. Hopefully, I will be able to get a lot of the piecing done tomorrow but we will see.
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