So here it is, hurrah! All my favourite t-shirts of yore, carefully stowed for years and finally brought out to shine all together.
You might notice that I've arranged the blocks in a sort of checker(draughts)board between white/light and black/deep coloured tees. I think it came out subtly enough, anyways I am pleased with the arrangement.
I knew I was either going to use fleece as the sole backing or the batting, as my quilt would be tied every 16 inches - I don't think any normal batting would stand up to that! Of course, I forgot to actually measure said quilt and said fleece, so it wasn't *quite* as wide as the quilt. Nevermind, I sorted it out with the binding.
All in all, it's lovely and cozy and exactly the size of the top of a UK King/US Queen size bed, pretty impressive! The sashing fabric is shot cotton from the Rowan Kaffe Fassett line, and the binding is something random which was cheaper and happened to match. ;) If you'd like to know the meaning behind all the tees, click on this picture to take you to the flickr page, with notes!
5 comments:
it's fantastic! maybe it will inspire me to get to work on mine. maybe. :)
It looks fabulous Ellen! Hurrah for finishing it!
You know how much I love this project.
I love the methodical way that you have gone about it, the attention to detail, the care at each stage.
The finished article is just gorgeous. I hope you are really proud of it! What a lovely, personally historic thing to have made and I like how you tagged all the t-shirts in flickr too!
Great idea, I've been meaning to do that myself.
I stumbled across your page while searching for "Frog Princess" graphics. The quilt is a brilliant idea! It looks great, too. I'm inspired to bring the idea to my craft bee when I move home in the fall.
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