Well, here I am....a year later. haha perhaps I will keep this up a little better.....or not.
My cousin is a hard rock fan.....she surely didn't get that from me. haha Her favorite is KISS. bleck..
Anyway, she saved all her concert tshirts for years and recently asked me if i could make her a quilt with them. what's a girl to do...I said sure. haha
She wanted it to cover her couch so she could see it every day. It is 81" wide and 69" high.
I had heard of most of these bands...except for a couple.
I used gray thread because i would not be able to see black thread on black shirts. in some places it sunk into the tshirt and where i added black fabric, it shows up.
I put interfacing on all shirts, so the seams were a tad thicker than usual. I did a wavy line across all the seams to hold everything together better.
Some of the stuff on tshirts is not conducive to sewing through, so i went around things the best i could and filled in larger spaces with swirls or lines or whatever.
There is no 'theme' to the quilting...it is a mish-mash of shapes. haha
This....ugh!! it will be the first block to disintegrate. parts of the red are already starting to come apart.
Most of these shirts are many years old.......from the 80s and 90s.
She wanted me to use the backs of the tshirts for the back of the quilt. I wasn't sure how it might work, but it went surprisingly well. I put interfacing on them, too.
Some of the shirts had a plain back, so I embroidered some rock sayings.
When I needed to fill in a space, I used a part of a shirt and embroidered on it.
This is one heavy quilt.
She chose the sayings to use after i gave her a list of them.
She had enough tshirts so I could make a quilt for her best friend also. That is next on the agenda. sigh!!
The things we do for those we love. haha
