T-shirt quilt – tierneycreates

Hello, here is a quick update to my post Easing Back into Quiltmaking with a T-Shirt Quilt 🙂

I got John’s T-Shirt Quilt assembled and I am shipping it off to the long-arm quilter. Not sure if I’ll have it back for Christmas as she is of course backlogged this time of year!

Just a reminder from my previous post on this quilt – I will have red binding to it to frame it and pull in the scrap red flannel I used in the center to make the center T-Shirt fit with the others.

Oh and here is a photo of the basketball themed flannel (John loves basketball and was even playing in an intramural league where he was the oldest guy and the referee nicknamed him “Old School” – ha!) that will be on the back:

It feels like I floated far away from a regular quiltmaking practice and I’d like to return to it.

I’d like to always have some quilt, whether traditional or art, in progress on my design wall.

So I am easing back in by making a simple T-shirt quilt for John for Christmas (it’s not a surprise as I wanted him of course to have a say in what T-shirts he gave up for the project!);

I took 17 of his old T-shirts and backed them with interfacing and trimmed them to 12.5 inches by 12.5 inches.

The one in the middle, “Beards Turn Laziness Into Awesomeness” is not actually one of his old T-shirts but a joke T-shirt my friend S found for John while she and I were thrifting.

I am setting the interfaced T-shirt squares with a tartan looking flannel I found a couple years ago at a thrift shop.

I will bind the quilt once it is quilted with red flannel binding to “frame” it/coordinated with the scrappy red flannel I put around the center T-shirt to make it large enough to fit into the design.

Happy to have a quilt in progress up on the design wall!