Thursday, March 1, 2012

Return of the Quilt


There is nothing like watching a few episodes of "Horders" on Netflix Streaming to make you want to throw away everything you own.

I have to admit I harbor some serious hoarding tendencies, for example, I just never throw anything away. My excuse always is something along the lines of "I can't throw away [object] I'm going to use it to make [other object].

However, I currently spend about 0% of my time turning my things into other things. So either the stuff has to go or I had better get cracking.

With this in mind I came up with my T-Shirt Quilt. This one is a funny one, because I already had a t-shirt quilt.


But I still had several bags of ill fitting memory-filled t-shirts piling up in my closet for a potential t-shirt quilt expansion. I had to draw a line in the sand, it was now or never.


So I sorted all of my t-shirts, and took a seam ripper to my old quilt and went looking for pattern inspiration on Pinterest (you may remember my obsession). I found this beautiful pattern "Bizzy Kid" from Cluck Cluck Sew Patterns.


Isn't it fun, bright, interesting and yet very quilt-y?

I went through many different design phases, having a great time with the colored pencils an my ruler. Eventually I came up with this:


The quilt will be one-sided, maybe with a fleece back? I'm planning to use t-shirts to make the whole front, eliminating that in-between purple fabric that I had in my original. Some of the pieces will be solid colors, others will have the patterns of the t-shirts on them.

I've started to dive in, cutting and sewing some of the blocks for the expanded quilt. I'll give you an update as I progress further. Fingers crossed that it turns out well.

~Claire Out