Alex&#39;s T-Shirt Quilt 1st Official

This past June of 2014 I started on my first t-shirt quilt. It took about 6 months to finish but it sat for many days and sometimes weeks. I was either not motivated to work on it or got stuck on how to piece it together. Also for my first quilt it was a king size quilt. I'll have to see if I can find my progress pictures to post here. My son was extremely happy to see its completion. My very first quilt ever was made with my grandmother Ercilia Garcia née Simpson. It was just some threadbare sheets and blankets that we stitched together by hand with a straight basting stitch. I don't think we did any binding to the edge just a basting stitch.

So I used a cotton batting and found a quilters shop that has long arm quilting. I then set the completed quilt with the batting and backing and pinned them together with quilting pins. I probably could have used another package but it worked okay. Next I stitched in the ditch to sew them together. Once finished I went to pick up some blanket satin binding and then hand stitched the edge.

The fabric on back has one spot that kind of gathered and pinched in a weird way. I felt like I wanted to go back and un-stitch that spot then re-sew it smoothly but Alex didn't care. There is a spot that I wanted to find a school photo from college and print on a fabric then hand embroider to the 'photo spot' but I'll have to do that later. There's also a couple of areas that embellishing with an embroidered edge would be nice. So this could be a work in progress for a few years! Lol. Nah it'll probably stay right how it is! Done!!

Border strips.

Our Irish Terrier loved sitting and laying on the t-shirts. Here she is getting ready to lay on them again. Now I just have to add the borders and binding.