Amanda's T-Shirt Quilt Complete

The challenge with this quilt was not the quilt itself, it was battling Mr. Weasley while making it. He wanted to be a helper, which he clearly was not. He's still cute though! 

My daughter graduated from high school in 2015 but still had quite a few t-shirts that she wanted to keep. I made her a rag quilt with all of her red and black shirts when she graduated. In this one, there are a few of her college t-shirts along with ones she wore in high school. Hopefully this will bring back some memories for her! It did for me while I was making it. 

I think Mr. Weasley knows he's in trouble!

Different picture, same attitude!

Time to move onto the next project! Hopefully Mr. Weasley will let me.

Happy Quilting!

Oldie But Goodie Quilt

A few months ago my aunt gave me her quilt back to repair. I gave this to her about 33 years ago. I had to have been around 13 years old at the time. I wanted to make quilts but had no one to teach me how. I knew how to hand sew, so that's what I did. Back then, I scrounged up any fabric that I could find. I raided my mom's small stash of scraps. She made curtains, seat cushions and occasionally clothes for us. She didn't quilt though. Repairing this quilt brought back all sorts of memories. There are pieces of clothing from nearly every family member including all sorts of double knit polyester that both of my grandmas wore. I am grateful that my aunt not only still has this quilt and still uses it on her guest bed, I'm grateful that she gave it back to me to repair. Hopefully it will still hold together for another 33 years!

I think this was the third or fourth quilt that I made. This was also the size and pattern that I made for at least 25 years. I finally discovered a quilt guild and you tube videos and really learned a great deal the last few years. These old quilts will always hold a special place in my heart.

When I got this quilt from my aunt, I wasn't quite sure how I was going to repair it. I finally decided to take the back off. When I originally made this quilt, my mom told me to place the two good sides together, sew all the way around it except for a small part to be able to turn it out and sew that part shut. It was loosely tied with thread. There wasn't even batting in it! It was really easy to take apart.

Once I got the back off, I went through it and decided the best way to fix it was to iron on fusible interfacing on the fabrics that were fraying and hand sew the pieces together. There was only one square that I couldn't save. I ended up replacing that square with a piece of my original stash. It blended in very well.

Once everything was fixed, I found an old sheet that was pretty close in color to the original backing. I ended up using that sheet for the backing since it was larger than the original. I ended up putting the quilt on the longarm. My thought was that it should stay together better than a loosely tied quilt. I put batting in it as well. I ended up using the original backing fabric for the binding. I really hope my aunt likes what I have done to her quilt!

I may look at doing the same thing to some of the other original quilt I made since many of those are still in the family.

So many quilts, so little time!

Happy Quilting!