Teamwork is the Dreamwork

 Hi Readers,  

Had a quick quilt turn around.  About two months ago, my son Will gave me a sack of his bowling team tee shirts.  He said he wanted to make a quilt out of them and he wanted us to do it together.  I glanced at it and realized there were not many shirts in there, so I told him it would be a small quilt but sure I was down for that.  So on closer inspection all the shirts have the same logo, but in different colors and the design was more like a wide stripe rather than a square.  

So when Will came for his birthday celebration weekend, I suggested we work on the quilt.  We already had a number of things scheduled...a family get together with my brother and his wife, church, and a dear friend was coming for Sunday dinner and to hang out in the afternoon.  He also helped me repair a part on my long arm, tighten a fixture on my kitchen sink, cleaned my dryer vent and flushed the water heater.  That last one is so important as our water in Winona has a lot of sediment in it.  So we had finished all our jobs and got the shirts out, we pulled my box of solids out and realized we didn't have large enough pieces in the colors he liked to do the quilt.  So we made a quick run to Main Street Fabrics and checked out their solids.  We found two we liked and purchased them then Will took me to get some ice cream and ran back home. 

We cut the shirts open then stabilized the shirts and we had decided to cut them in equal rectangles of 7 x 14 inches.  We were going to do a shadow look to the quilt.  The ones with dark print were going to get dark blue background and the ones with the light print would be put on a light blue back ground.  So we decided to divide and conquer.  I sewed the light background blocks and Will sewed the dark background blocks.  I did the one at the bottom that was half and half.  Since I sew faster,  I assemble rows while he was finishing up.  Saturday we finished the top about 11.  

The label

 In the morning, we prepped the birthday cake and fruit for the get together with my brother and his wife, and did a little bit of cleaning to get ready for our company.  Then off to their house, church and back home to prep Sunday dinner.  About 6 after our friend left, we put the quilt on the long arm and I quilted it with a very open quilting pattern, that we found on urban element that quilts up very quickly.  While I was doing that, Will ironed the binding and got it prepped to go on the quilt.  I finished the quilting about 10 or 10:30, so we decided it was time to call it a night and start fresh in the morning.  Will was planning to leave at 9 so he said don't worry about putting the binding on before he left.  So the next morning I woke up about 5:30 and couldn't go back to sleep so I got up and put the binding on.  I also pulled some fabrics for a pillow slip.  So after we finished loading his car, we realized I had enough time to make the pillow slip too!  So he was able to take them both home!  

It is going to be a busy week.  So I am headed to bed to start fresh tomorrow.  

Sew on,

Terry