And so it began on Sunday - the T-shirt quilt experiment. I am not quite sure how to capture this adventure through an actual story, so I have decided to just write the steps down that we went through. Jamie purchased the book from the Too Cool T-Shirt Quilt website, which happened to be quite the live-saver! Who in the world could come up with a system like this, seriously - pure genius! Here we go:
1. Gather t-shirts you want to make up your quilt - they will be cut up, so don't plan on wearing them again....
2. Find the right size template (directions on what sizes and how to make included in the book!) and cut out the design w/ rotary cutter.
3. Organize your piles by sizes of cut out blocks.
4. Figure out how many square inches of pieces you have.
5. Using addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and SQUARE ROOTS....figure out the #/sizes of additional filler pieces you will need.
6. Cut out little pieces of graph paper to scale, to represent each piece size you have and arrange these to make your quilt map. This is like a puzzle, it could really take some time to get the pattern just right. You don't want to have any 4 corners connecting.
7. Divide quilt into sections for sewing.
8. Figure out what colors will go where, so you don't have pieces that are the same colors next to each other.
9. Figure out where your half seams will be...yes, half seams...
10. Using a lot of brain power, sew quilt sections individually and then sew the sections together.
11. Your top piece is done! Yay! (5 hours later, and forgot to take a picture of the final top quilt!) Uuuugh, use your imagination for now I suppose. Will have to post later.
Overall, it was super fun and I can't wait to make many many more of them! I just have to make smaller plexiglass templates so I can do one of Evelyn's baby things...I don't think she has many outfits that are 16 x 16.......yet......
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