Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Are you ready to rock???

 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.

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I had heard of most of these bands...except for a couple.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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There is no 'theme' to the quilting...it is a mish-mash of shapes. haha

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This....ugh!!   it will be the first block to disintegrate. parts of the red are already starting to come apart. 

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Most of these shirts are many years old.......from the 80s and 90s. 

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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.

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Some of the shirts had a plain back, so I embroidered some rock sayings.

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When I needed to fill in a space, I used a part of a shirt and embroidered on it.

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This is one heavy quilt.

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She chose the sayings to use after i gave her a list of them.

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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

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