Sunday Funday

A couple of days ago I woke up with this idea to

make  up a quilt sample out of all of those little

t-shirt emblems that are about 6 inches square.

I'm going to be teaching a t-shirt class at a local quilt shop and I needed to have a sample to hang. 

So I got up and sorted thru all those squares and came up with this little quilt.

I did sashing and a border on this one.

Oh and this one too....

and this one I just butted the squares together without using sashing.

I pieced the quilts pretty quickly on Friday morning

and this morning I got them both quilted and ready to hand sew the binding down.  This was a really fun little project!

When mia was born my sweet friend Jo gave me a baggie full of barrettes that her daughters had worn when they were little. 

As you can see in the photo Mia's hair is really long in the front and

requires something to pull it back out of her face. 

She loved looking thru all the barrettes and picking out just the right one.

When she gets a little older I think that this bag of barrettes will

be a really fun matching game!

Blackberries are on sale at Sprouts this week so Mia and I made up a blackberry cobbler today.

In this picture I had Mia practicing her mixing skills.

She thought that was pretty fun, but really wanted something in the

bowl to mix!

She enjoyed tasting as each ingrediant went in!

Flour was pretty interesting.

Mia also did a little quilting today on the longarm.

Pictures of that to come!

God Bless,

tammy

T-Shirt Quilt Tutorial 3

So far in this t-shirt quilt journey we have

been dealing with t-shirts that have an emblem that is the same size.

What do you do with those t-shirts that are much smaller than the others?

There are numerous way to use these shirts........

I'll be showing you one method that I use.

Three of the 50+ shirts I have for this quilt

are smaller than a 15" square

I also had a big stack of those little emblems

that you find on the front of a shirt.

So here is one of the ways I use these smaller emblems

and bring them up to a 15" size:

Remember the stack of unused shirt backs?

I take and stabalize them with interfacing

and cut them into 15" squares.

I then stabalize the smaller emblems

and cut them into a smaller square or other shape

and place them onto the stabalized 15" square.

You may be tempted to skip stabalizing the

smaller shapes but DON'T DO IT!

You will have a hard time when you applique those

shapes onto the 15" square.

I place the shapes that will be appliqued onto the 15" square

and use a water soluable glue to keep the

shapes in place

while I am sewing them down.

Hint: place a SMALL amount of glue

on the back of the shape,

(thin line or small dots in corners)

press by hand in place and

then quickly press with an iron to meld.

You could use a fusible web, but I find that these

squares are already pretty heavy from the

weight of the shirt plus the stabalizer so

why add more?

If you have one of those machines that have a variety of applique stitches

then you have alot of choices to pick from.

I used a simple zig zag stitch on some of these shapes,

but my favorite is the blanket stitch which

was used on most of them.

Now these squares are ready to be placed in the body of the quilt.

Check back next time when we will be designing the quilt top

and sewing it all together.

tammy