T-shirt Quilt #4

 Dear Readers,

The year is off to a great start quilting wise.  Hope your 2021 is going well.  I finished my second quilt this year.  It was a t-shirt quilt that I had started almost 2 years ago.  Taylor sent me a big box of T-shirts with ribbons tying certain ones together.  I did the other 3 quilts pretty quick, but then I kind of hit a block and could not seem to make myself do this last quilt.  I wasn't liking the quilt, as the fabric the client wanted me to use seemed too dark for the shirts to me.  Finally I got past it and completed this quilt.  

I hope Taylor likes it.  Once I added the quilting to it I liked it a lot better.  Celeste kept telling me you don't always like what a client likes, and that is OK.  

Close up of some of the quilting...I did echoed hearts on this shirt.

I found a piece of fabric at Cotton Blossom in Ridgeland that had little pine trees on it. Since Taylor lives in Colorado and wants this for their camp house I thought it was fitting, especially since black is her favorite color.  Let me tell you sewing that black binding down with black thread was very hard on old eyes.  

I haven't talked about this yet, but I have been making a pillow case to go with each quilt, as it is a good way to store quilts in a fabric that won't get hurt.  I put the extra fabric from the binding and the backing on the edge of it.  

Keep making everyday count.  Two months down and two quilts completed!!

Luminous

 Dear Readers,

I have my first finish of 2021!  It is another eye-spy quilt.  I know those are fairly simple, but I like how you get a different look depending on the theme and the setting color.  This one was for the a coworker at Winona High School who is about to have a baby.  I talked the her mother, and she said they like Alabama, Delta State, all sports, dogs and domesticated animals. Her husband is an Army vet and a police officer.   I also know that she likes flowers as those are the prints she has hung in her office.   Well, no one makes Delta State fabric, but I think I did incorporate lots of things that they love.

I picked a medium soft yellow for the border and the setting triangles.  I also found some Scrabble tile fabric and worked out how to put in her name.  With the yellow background I was trying to find a way to work in light or Sunshine into the name.  Will came up with Luminous.  

And as a stash buster, I am getting older prints and putting them together for backs.

We are in the middle of a winter storm here in Mississippi.  We are out of school but working from home for the day....and I would not be surprised if it was for the next few days.  I know a lot of the country is going through the same weather system. Stay safe out there.  

Sew on,

Terry