wildyard

My 20 yr. old DGD just requested a quilt made in all plaids, so I hit the thrift store on 50 cent day and got a herd of mens shirts in all shapes and sizes of plaids. It's a real challenge to come up with a pattern that will showcase them without giving one a headache when looking at it. LOL

sharin'Sharon

Recently, on this site, I saw where someone had used the button plackets of shirts as inner narrow borders and looked very nice. Good luck with your quilt. I have my mother's clothes to do something with someday.

SandyinZ4

I hope you post pics as you go along. I would love to see the progress and this sounds very interesting.

Lavada

I have western shirts of my deceased beloved husband and just now deciding what to do with them i made a pin whl quilt from my 11 year old son s pj's after he passed away

butterflies5518

I love buttons - what a cool upcycle way to get more quilting fabric!

gramquilter2

What an interesting project. I love the pint of buttons.

hopetoquilt

I saw the quilt with the button plackets and loved it. however, when I started to cut them, I wasn't happy with how mine cut and looked. It is difficult fabric to work with. That is why I plan to use a cotton quilting fabric as the main fabric and use the cotton shirts as the corners for the floating stars.

What do you all think of using PINK as the main fabric. Any other colors that you think will go nicely?

Andii

I like the idea of pink, with the shirt colors it would have a shabby chic kind of feel to it.

I have my dad's shirts which I am cutting up and I am saving the button plackets to braid together to make a rag rug. I like them because they have finished edges. I'm always reading pioneer books and the ladies tore their rags into strips for braiding.

Good luck.

Poodles

How do you start cuttin up a shirt to use. Is there a lot of waste to cutting up a shirt. I have a ton but no sure how to start cutting them up.

LadyElisabeth

I look forward to seeing the finished quilt, and hope you finad a way to add a few buttons