Two Christmas quilts....
12-26-2009, 04:56 PM
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Here are the two quilts that I made and (mostly) finished for Christmas this year!
The T-shirt quilt needs to have one binding unsewn and redone and then needs tying, but as I was giving to my DH, I was able to let it slide.
The other, Wacky Winter Fences, was for my SIL....
The T-shirt quilt needs to have one binding unsewn and redone and then needs tying, but as I was giving to my DH, I was able to let it slide.
The other, Wacky Winter Fences, was for my SIL....
Wacky Winter Fence
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I asked my DH to show the back....
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Timmy's T-shirt Quilt
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12-26-2009, 05:02 PM
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Love the tee shirt quilt. Did you do patchwork and then applique the t's on? Also, did you use a stabilizer?
That really came out great! My wonderful son asked me to make him one, and I'm really hesitant to start because I don't know how to do it.
That really came out great! My wonderful son asked me to make him one, and I'm really hesitant to start because I don't know how to do it.
12-26-2009, 05:12 PM
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Thanks!
You know, I read all different directions and looked at all different pictures, then I simply went to town.
I cut out the fronts, then stabilized with woven fusible stabilizer, and then trimmed them into nice rectangles.
The pieces of Tshirt were all so varied in width, so I laid them out on the floor, in columns, till I got a pleasant design.
Making all left edges align, I found the largest width block, and then chose a cotton novelty print to 'fill in' the width of the narrower blocks (note the flames, or batman)
After that, it was a simple assembly by column and then all columns together to make the whole!
Not daunting at all, once I thought it through...
You know, I read all different directions and looked at all different pictures, then I simply went to town.
I cut out the fronts, then stabilized with woven fusible stabilizer, and then trimmed them into nice rectangles.
The pieces of Tshirt were all so varied in width, so I laid them out on the floor, in columns, till I got a pleasant design.
Making all left edges align, I found the largest width block, and then chose a cotton novelty print to 'fill in' the width of the narrower blocks (note the flames, or batman)
After that, it was a simple assembly by column and then all columns together to make the whole!
Not daunting at all, once I thought it through...
12-26-2009, 06:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Busy Bee
I love the wacky winter fences. Gives me lots of ideas.
It was an act of desperation. I realized I needed a quilt for Christmas, to keep family harmony (last year I drew my other SIL's name and gave her a quilt that was almost finished already)
I literally didn't even IRON the fabrics first. I just unfolded to two layers and sliced, somewhere between 1.5 and 4 inch pieces off, not even making the slices even from top to bottom. Then I pieced them, cut into 8.5 inch squares and assembled. (I DID Iron at some point, lol)
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