The Final T-Shirt Quilt

I finished the last of four t-shirt quilts that I have been making for a friend of a friend. I am the most proud of this one.

I practiced some different quilting styles on a baby quilt I did before it, and then did fan quilting in a couple of the rows of shirts, swirls in another, meander in another, and then all the sashing was done to look kind of like bark.

What was super disappointing and a little heart-attack-inducing was that after I washed it, I was showing it off to some girlfriends and noticed that the red shirt you see in the picture of the whole thing above had bled through all of the holes that the quilting thread left over its surface. OMG. I flipped out and took it to Mom's and we soaked the back where it had bled in Chlorox 2 and then washed it.  Luckily, it was mostly okay after it came out of the wash.

These quilts became such a burden to me. I allowed their creation to drag on for literally years, which is why. The woman who received them probably has a really good cross-section of how my quilting skills have progressed over the years.

Here are the others I made for her:

first

third

back of second

 

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