A few people have commented on my tee-shirt quilt, asking how I made it. There's plenty of crafty sites online that describe the process, but I thought I'd supplement them with the design I used.
I used a 14"x14" cardboard square as my base unit because I noticed that most of my full-front shirt designs fit into this size. I used a half-size 7"x14" rectangle shirts that only had print across the top (for example, "Staff" or "Scuba Michigan"). Finally I made a quarter-sized 7"x7" square to be used on shirt with only an emblem or logo in the top corner.
The blanket is composed of five vertical strips that were each 14" wide and 14"*5... umm.. 70" long. As you can see, I offset the bigger 14"x14" blocks with the smaller sized pieces. The other side of the blanket is a solid piece of dark blue flannel (because I love soft things) and one of my mom's old sheets is sewn into the middle of the blanket for added warmth. It's amazing how many memories you can fit into a few feet of fabric.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
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