Tee shit Quilt 1

  So I have started another tee-shirt quilt.  This one is for my father in law.  He used to help out at a Drama Camp each summer, so most of these shirts are from that.

I decided I would try a new to me technique, and make a shadow on each block.  I have seen it done, but not tried it yet.  I chose to use strips that were 1.5".  The only "struggle" I really had is that most of the blocks were different sizes, so I had to do a lot of measuring to make sure the black was the right size. 

Next time all the blocks will be the same width & length. 

I LOVE my design wall.  And it helped me so much when making this quilt.  I was able to put the blocks up as I worked on them, but also be able to rearrange them so they were in a design pattern that I liked. 

Bow ties

Here is an updated picture of the bow tie blocks.  Laid out a little differently than before.  

There are currently 113 of them!

Spools

Wowowowow!  These are my spools currently.

I am using these as leader & enders.  I put them on up on the design wall by color before, but seeing them like this just blows me away.  I love how it looks!

It will be real interesting sewing this together!  Since it will be on point (I like how it looks better on point than just up and down.) 

But it's not something I will have to worry about for a while! I have slowed down a little bit on using these as my leader and enders, because I need to cut more of the grey background fabric.

Scrappy trips finished

I have TWO finished scrappy trip quilts. I don't know exactly when these were started, I know sometime BEFORE 2015. 

I had done some exchanges, so there is a lot of variety in my blocks.  

One of these I actually quilted last summer. I just hadn't had the chance to get the second one done.

I did a scrappy back for both of them, using up some left extra blocks I had.

This backing was actually part of the left over from the first quilt!  For the binding for both quilts I used purple scraps, AND I got to break in my new die from Accuquilt.  

I bought a 2.25" strip cutter, because that is the size I make my bindings.  It was SO nice, I got so many strips cut and so easily. 

Quartered star Quilt finished!

I started this quilt in the summer of 2019.  I had actually started it as a light/darks quilt. But I wasn't happy with the way it was looking for my nephew, so I thought I would try the blues.  

I really like how it turned out.  I still have some of the test blocks from when I did it as lights and darks, so I can definitely say that will be a quilt in my future.

I was originally going to go 100% scrappy for the back, but I found a piece of blue that was almost large enough.  I had thought about making a few more star blocks and putting them on the back, but I wanted something a little easier, so I just used 5" square (many of which are the same as the front).

For the binding I used random blue fabrics, including some from the backing.

Alphabet Quilt finished!

I got the quilt top done!  And it's on the long arm.  I thought I had thread that was black, white and grey, but I couldn't find any.  So I just used grey.  I think it worked well.  I just did a meander.  I also wrote their last name in it.

Here is the top all finished, quilted and bound. I just used solid black for the binding.

And then the back.  When I found the box that housed this WIP (work in progress) it was heavier than I thought it would have been for having a few quilt blocks in it. That was because I had put some fabric with it I wanted to use!

I had just enough to do the backing for the quilt.  The main piece of the back has music terms on it, and then middle line has piano keys and then some instruments

Alphabet quilt

I did not have enough of the fabric that I used as background to do sashing, so I have some of fabric that is similar, I know it's hard to see in the picture, but the background is black with grey music notes.  The sashing is black with white music notes.

I decided to just do a 2.5" sashing, since that is what many of the blocks used.  

It actually came together really fast.  I am mad at myself for not doing this sooner!

Alphabet quilt

It's spring break! which means lots of time for sewing! I have been going through some of my WIPs (works in progress) and I found this one!  

I realized I never shared any pictures of it!  I shared a few on my instagram, but never all of them.

Here are all the blocks finished and on my design wall.

I started this quilt in 2016! When we were first moved into our new house.  

They are spell it with moda alphabet blocks.  I used a different fabric for each letter.

I started this for a friend that had twins, but the twins are 4, so I think they each need their own! (I'll share those in a bit).

These blocks were found on Moda's website.

I enjoyed making the blocks, they were straight forward.  I would love to use them again to spell something out, but I also like just making it as an alphabet quilt.