Let me cut that up!!!
#31
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Michigan
Posts: 864
Recently I was at a farmer's meeting with my husband. I couldn't help but notice all the nice shirts the guys were wearing and was envisioning several quilts out of them. I did notice a few 3X sized men, and thought about all the fabric I could get out of their shirts. Then, instead of taking notes and listening to the speaker, I was sketching designs and doodling quilt patterns.
#32
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 7,312
I got on a Hawaiian shirt kick for awhile and noticed them everywhere. Found a bunch at thrift stores that really worked well for a quilt.
I love we get our fabrics and inspirations from the world around us!
I love we get our fabrics and inspirations from the world around us!
#33
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Tippy-top of a ridge in WV
Posts: 6,355
This very day, I had a scrubs top folded up on the back of the couch to show my 16yr. old GD who is going off to college in August. They are busily trying to "wardrobe" her. I only wore it two times and now have outgrown it, ( nicely put), and I told myself, I know she won't want it, really, and when she refuses it, I am going to cut it up as it was a really neat blotched pattern of mostly blue with bits of gold and red in it . Wouldn't you know, she tried it on and said, "I'll take it". Oh, well, I have way too much fabric as it is...but, it would have been neat in a small quilt.
#37
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Round Rock,Texas
Posts: 6,135
There's a song that Cathy Miller, the singing quilter, sings on one of her albums about the DH who's reduced to boxers and a shirt and no sheets on the bed because his wife has cut them all up for quilts.
Sharon
#39
My daughter works for a vet, therefore our house is full of used scrubs. I took them, cut them up, and made a cute quilt entirely out of her scrubs. I even made the backing for it from the scrubs. She loves it. The patterns were all so cute and this has a lot of memories for her to keep.
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