Sew Freak

that is cool!!!

justflyingin

Fabric stores for the most part, sell dress fabrics like rayons and polyesters and very dressy fabrics. The local fabric shop that sells cottons has about 10 different fabrics--some solids and a couple/few prints.

Iraxy

Interesting how no matter where you are in the world, you find things made somewhere else. We are truly becoming one world whether we like it or not.

solstice3

Awesome idea

AlvaStitcher

I love your quilt! I have used shirt fabric in some of the quilts I have made but not for the entire quilt. I keep my eye out for shirts when I visit thrift stores. Great source of cotton at really reasonable prices. Just takes a few minutes to cut the shirt up for usable fabric. Using the labels is very creative. I have a box full of mens' ties that I have taken apart but I kept the labels from them to do just this whenever I make up a quilt with the tie fabric.

sewbizgirl

Great quilt top and don't you feel thrifty?

Got Quilts

Very nice. Makes me want to cut up my husbands shirts.

matraina

What a neat idea, and how pretty!!!

My time

What's old is new again!! This is so cool thanks for sharing your project with us. I have also made 3 quilts out of clothing and it's a lot of work. Washing removing buttons, taking apart seams, removing hems, pockets collars etc. then you have to subcut!! Phew tired just talking about it. But with the way cotton prices are rising I can see more of us following your path. This is so well done. Congratulations!

justflyingin

Yes it is a lot of work, but I don't take apart seams. I cut them apart. Taking apart at the seam would would take a long time!

It takes me about 7 min. to take apart a shirt. But yes, if you have 10 shirts, that's 70 min that I can't spend sewing.

That isn't taking the buttons off. I have a whole bunch of cuffs and front plackets that I am saving in a tub for when I have to go somewhere and hubby gets to drive. Then I can take off buttons.