T-Shirt-Quilt in Progress

Who knew t-shirt quilts could be so fun?

This has been really fun to work on this week, and it's for a June 11th college graduation . . . but I have a wedding quilt on the frame to finish for a May 27th wedding first and then back to fun times to get this quilted.

Last week, I cut up all the shirts.  By the 5th or 6th shirt, I was getting a rhythm and it really didn't take too long to go from this...

32 Shirts

to this....

There were even a couple of sweat shirts in the pile.  Here I pieced together the logo from the front and the words from the back.  Then I appliquéd the number from the sleeve and the words from the hood to make one 18 x 16 block.

This shirt was well worn and had a dime sized hole the the right end of the football.  The "1st String" logo was on the back of the shirt and with a little machine appliqué, made the perfect cover-up for the hole.

It was quite a challenge to use all the shirts and keep it from being stadium-cover size.  There were all sizes of shirts: college, high school, jr. high, grade school, and even a few pee-wees from T-Ball and Little league which were child's size 6-8.  To make this all work, I pieced it in vertical rows of 10", 12", 14" and 16-18" adding different sized sashing strips to make them all fit.  

The flimsy is done and ready to be quilted.  For more Friday finishes, head on over to Confessions of a Fabric Addict for her link up to Whoop Whoop Friday!