Here's the latest finished T-shirt quilt!

Here's the latest T-shirt quilt I pulled off the frame and delivered.  

My client loved it and said it was going to be incredibly difficult to keep it a secret until the big presentation moment.  The shirts are from all the teams her daughter was a member of over the course of her school years.  

I had so much fun making this memory for my client!

Quilt Rescue

This double wedding ring quilt top is in pretty bad shape.  

It belongs to my cousin and you can see how frayed the edges are.  

I've stay stitched the edges to stabilize the top so that I could wash it.  

I was hoping some of the stains would also come out but they are set in.  I've done a lot of repair work to the seams that had come apart.  It is always so interesting to see the types of fabrics used in an old top like this.  

There is a WIDE variety of fabrics and some of the weaves are very loose.  The one that really made me do a double take was the dish rag scrap.  Really, it is a dish rag.  I wish I knew more about who made this and what the significance is of the fabrics selected.  

But, yep, dish rag scraps is a first for me!

Portrait Block

This is the centerpiece of the T-shirt quilt I'm fabricating this week.  The quilt is a graduation present and the center block is this photo transfer specialty block.

It showcases her daughter's senior photo with some photos of her as a little girl.  

Isn't that a great idea?  This will be a treasured memento for years to come.  

I used the Heirloom Treasures photo paper in my HP printer with Activa ink.  It looks great!

Stitched Memories

I'm working on a T-shirt quilt right now.  My client brought me 23 shirts to use as blocks.  I've prepared those and I'm piecing those rows together today.  It is going to look GREAT.

The quilt itself will be a 25 block quilt, of which two are specialty blocks.  The center block will be a photo composition highlighting her daughter's graduation photo with one of her as a 5 year old. It will be the perfect centerpiece.  I'll post a photo of it when I get it finished.  

But the specialty block I worked on over the weekend was a custom Girl Scout block.  I took my client's Brownie badges off her old uniform and sewed them onto this custom block.  Isn't it great! 

 I was a Brownie a long time ago and I was suprised at how many memories I had of my Girl Scout adventures while sewing.  

This T-shirt quilt is going to be be a wonderful way for her daughter to have her childhood memories stitched together with love!  

Sleepy field of flowers

This quilt is from a new client and it reminds me of a sleepy field of flowers.  It's watercolor palate is very calming, isn't it?

My client is a relatively new quilter who has a friend that owns a quilt shop.  

Her friend's quilt shop is a few states away but she sends little quilty boxes of fun to entice my client every now and again.  

This is the product of one of those quilty care packages.  

Wouldn't you love to have a quilt fairy like that??? (can you see me turning green with envy yet?)

Blue double wedding ring

The latest quilt on the frame is this beautiful blue scrappy double wedding ring.  

The woman who pieced this quilt unfortunately passed away unexpectedly.  Her family is getting this top quilted and it is humbling to complete her beautiful quilt.  

She had already marked it for quilting but was going to do it by hand and had marked it with quilt stencils that are difficult to do by machine.  

I've put more machine friendly designs on the top and it is going to be beautiful!

Stained Glass Rose

This quilt was also made by my client who did the baby fish quilt.  This stained glass quilt is her original design.  It is a wedding gift and the couple who open this gem will have a lovely wall hanging to commemorate their big day.  

She specifically asked me to treat her creation as a regular quilt and not as faux stained glass.  

I put a peacock filler behind the rose and used McTavishing in on the rose petals.  I outlined the leaves and added ribbons along the outside borders.  The hearts have ribbons on the outside heart and nested hearts on the lighter pink heart.

Pretty!