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A family friend passed away and I was asked to make a quilt out of his old button up shirts as a memory quilt for his wife. ANY ideas of how many shirts I would need and what kind of pattern would be best for the plaid dress shirts? I just was thinking a lap or couch quilt...not too huge.
Send me your ideas please!
-Teri from Minne-sn*w-ta
This one has been on my bucket list for quite some time. You need 7 shirts. I think the trick to success is careful selection and placement of color/value. I've been saving my husband's worn dress shirts, but he seems to wear a lot of blue, so I'm waiting for him to wear out his green one and his purple one.
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Peckish aka Peggi
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this is a great tut/mystery... thanks for posting it, PeckishOriginally Posted by Peckish
This one has been on my bucket list for quite some time. You need 7 shirts. I think the trick to success is careful selection and placement of color/value. I've been saving my husband's worn dress shirts, but he seems to wear a lot of blue, so I'm waiting for him to wear out his green one and his purple one.
http://thethriftyquilter.blogspot.co...e-thrifty.html
Nancy in western NY
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I knew I could count on you guys! I will let the family know that I need at least 7 shirts to make the project; 2 light and 5 dark...maybe I should ask for a few more and then have a choice. What they give will work I'm sure! Thanks again for the help!
-Teri from Minne-sn*w-ta
Ask the family to provide 100% cotton if possible. You can use blends, but they may be a bit more challenging to work with.
I would ask for more shirts if there are more available.
Better to have them and not need them, than to need more and not have them.
Love the 9 patch and snowball combo. My go-to!!This one has been on my bucket list for quite some time. You need 7 shirts. I think the trick to success is careful selection and placement of color/value. I've been saving my husband's worn dress shirts, but he seems to wear a lot of blue, so I'm waiting for him to wear out his green one and his purple one.
http://thethriftyquilter.blogspot.co...e-thrifty.html
Better to do something imperfectly, than nothing perfectly.
Done is better than perfect.
After my father-in-law passed away, I wanted to use his shirts in a quilt for my husband. I didn't have enough to make an entire quilt, so I decided to combine them with other fabrics. Most of the shirts read as "light" at a distance, so I decided to play on that. I tea-dyed the shirts with white background. I bought some civil war reproduction fabrics in the dark, rich colors that my DH likes and made a log cabin top with a backing of 10" squares. It is my favorite quilt. I think it's because the shirting fabrics make lively lights.
I learned from this and started to collect shirts from the Goodwill monthly sales. I try to remember that I need to buy lots of stripes and plaids that read "light".
Last edited by elizajo; 02-23-2015 at 03:34 PM.
Elizabeth
i did one .....just made large blocks from the back of the shirt then did a piano key border
I have seen several of these and some were wonderful. One lady had cut a patch with the pocket on it, and used those in the quilt too. Hope you will share pics.
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