Unlike a standard tshirt quilt, Bianca's quilt back is made up of additional tshirts! It's basically two quilt tops instead of a top and a back.
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Between running out of interfacing, finishing up previous orders and family/holiday travel, I didn't get much time in December to work on Bianca's quilt top. Last time I posted, I was ironing on all the interfacing. Since then, I was able to finish the interfacing and piece/sew together all the shirts in the quilt top!
Right around thanksgiving time, I was sitting on the couch and I heard this "cha-ching" noise that came from my phone. What was that?? I forgot that I had downloaded the Etsy app for my phone and I had no idea that when you got an order, it made a cash register noise! Anyways, Jennifer sent me a bundle of clothes that she wanted made into a quilt for her twins Haden & Kate to share. First thing I did was unpack all the clothes to see what she had sent and if anything specific was marked.
If you saw the last post about this quilt, I got the top done and was ready to quilt it up.
Once I got all those star centers and star surrounds done, it was time to put together the final blocks and pieced the top.
Once all the star centers were complete, it was time to use up all those flying geese and the rest of my cut pieces to make the surrounds for the stars.
After I finally finished trimming all of those flying geese, the next step was to assemble the star centers (although it's kind of funny since you don't need the flying geese for this step). Remember all the Half Square Triangles I made? It's time to turn those into the star centers!
After I worked on the Half Square Triangles last week, it was time to use some of the other cut pieces to make a bunch of flying geese. How many geese will be in my flock? 192!! Holy moly. This week's work is based on the following link from the official Quilt Along (it's over but i'm still trucking along): http://happyquiltingmelissa.blogspot.com/2013/08/star-surround-quilt-long-flying-geese.html
After I got all the shirts cut, I was ready to start interfacing the shirts. For anyone that hasn't used interfacing - it's just a thin layer that gets ironed on to keep the shirts from stretching. I used that table I made that shows all the cut sizes of the shirts and cut squares of interfacing to match.
The previous Chapter Advisor for Alpha Phi (and my friend) Bianca, recently asked me if I could make her a tshirt quilt. She said she had a TON of shirts but I didn't believe her. When she finally brought them over, they were in a big suitcase and she wasn't kidding - there were a ton. First thing I did was to make a rough layout so I could quote her based on the finished size. There were so many shirts, the only way I could do it was to make it double sided.
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