T-Shirt Quilt

A friend from work asked me if I could make a T-shirt quilt for her from her son's baseball shirts. I decide that I would try it as a quilt-as-you-go by quilting the rows.

After prepping the shirts, I spent some time arranging the shirts for the front of the quilt.

I then prepared the back design for the rows.

I added sashing between the blocks.

I just did straight row quilting on the sandwich back, batting, and front.

To do the quilting, I measured and taped off the distance between the quilted stitching, about 3".

I then pinned and stitched the back sashing and front sashing onto the rows.

I finished off the top sashing with just a straight stitch very close to the edge of the sashing strip.

Once all assembled, I finished off the quilt with the binding, which I just straight stitched finished.

Back of finished quilt.

And the front of the finished quilt.

Finished Flower Garden

I finished the flower garden paper-piecing quilt today!

Moving on to new projects!

Flower Garden

After completing paper-piecing, I added a border...

and started basting the materials together for quilting.

I started quilting the flower pots and then quilted the flowers.  I did use decorative stitches for some of the quilting of the pots.

I'm now working on the borders by quilting them to look like a picture frame.

Spring Splash!

These are the fabrics for the quilt project that I'm working on now.

A coworker asked me if I could make her a quilt that looks similar to this one. She only took a screen shot of the quilt, but didn't link me the website.

I tried googling and searching Pinterest for this image, but I couldn't find it. So, I made up my own paper piecing patterns.

I started with the flower pots since I already had a pattern for flower pots from a previous small quilt. I just enlarged that pattern to make a 10" square.

All squares are done. Now comes the assembling of squares to from columns. I plan to make a border around the large block of flowers by using the blue background fabric and the pink batik fabric that will be used for the back of the quilt.

Ready for Spring!

I didn't plan on finishing this quilt a couple of days before Easter, but I just did. I started this baby quilt in January. The top was completed and quilt basted in the beginning of February; and then, I hit a quilting wall. I didn't know how I wanted to quilt it. So, the project sat beside the sewing machine the rest of February and most of March while I planned and went on camping trips.

Well, a light-bulb moment came to me. Actually, it was an inspiration. My sister informed me of the wonderful news that my niece is expecting her first! That bit of news jolted me back to finishing the quilt. I was so excited for my niece and her husband that I had the quilt finished in a week.

Which happened to be just in time for bunnies, Spring, and Easter. I'm saying good-bye to winter, and hello Spring!

Simple Things Take Time

I have been working on a baby quilt. I'm hoping that this quilt will be a shower gift for my niece. Unless she's having a boy, then I'll be making another quilt since this quilt screams girl.