I'm almost done with a commissioned t-shirt quilt - this guy rocks! Lol! Look how many concerts he's been to! So many memories in this quilt! He wanted as many shirts in there as he could get, so we settled on a collage style design. I also put some of the shirts on the back - those were the ones that were not cooperating, cutting-wise. Sometimes the graphic goes so far up into the neckline, that you can't get a full block out of the shirt. Very frustrating! But it's still a memory, and needed to go into the quilt! Putting in on the back was the perfect solution! (Pic of the back coming soon! I love a pieced back! I chose to use a bunch of patriotic fabrics that I had in my stash - stars, stripes, red, white, and blue!)

I bound it in royal blue from Kona. Love me some Kona cotton! I was going to bind it in Kona black, but that felt too boring. I wanted a splash of color to make it pop. I love the color - it frames the quilt nicely! I free-motion quilted on my midarm in an all over large meander. It's hard to quilt through fusible interfacing (used for stabilizing the shirts), so a lot of us do straight stitching along borders and/sashing. I elected to use a thinner poly blend thread in a neutral darker tan color so that the stitches would blend in more.

That's my husband holding the quilt up on a step stool! The quilt is 86" long and 76" wide - quite a stretch, even for him!

If you need me to make a t-shirt quilt for you for a graduating student, I suggest you start gathering those t-shirts as soon as possible! The busy season will hit before we know it!