"T-shirts" by Mary Beth

This is a memory quilt for a friend of Mary Beth's who's husband has passed.  So this needed to be done as quickly as possible.

 I love how she incorporated the zipper into the quilt.

A T-shirt quilt made by Jan for a friend

Jan pieced this great quilt top from T-shirts belonging to her friend's late husband.  Clearly the man was very active as all the shirts are from triathalons, runs or bike rides.  Mostly staged in Hawaii, so Jan chose this perfect shell fabric for the border, backing and binding.  Then I quilted it with a shell design to match the theme and a lightweight thread. 

 

Alexis T-shirts

This is going to be a girl to watch.  She's been so active throughout her school years in so many different sports and activities.  Next stop college for Pre-Med.  I don't know her at all, but I can tell that she is amazing just from her shirts!

I love the shirts that have clearly been worn, so I didn't repair the tear on the sweatshirt pocket

My favorite shirt!
 

T-shirts for Rich

This is the first time I've had a color coordinated T-shirt quilt.  You only get one guess to know what Rich in involved in

This block is made up of small chest and sleeve logos that were too small to made an entire block on their own, but worked well as a set

 

T-shirt quilt for Erika's friend's birtday

Erika gets some serious longarmer brownie points.  She brought me the shirts for this quilt in late June, and the friends birthday isn't until Jan.  Yeah!  

Erika said that she had started this quilt during the pandemic, and became overwhelmed.  Boxed it up and put it away for the future.  When we mete, the square were cut mostly to size, and one had been interfaced.  I took them all and finished it up for her, and I think it's darling!

 I have no idea what the significance is of the racoon, but I love his face!

"Dad's Harley Davidson shirts" for Kelsey

Clearly dad was a Harley Fan.  There is also nothing quite so satisfying as hearing your customer quietly say "It's perfect.  It's perfect" when they see their quilt.

Since my longarm machines are "born" in Iowa, of course I had to choose this one!

 

Thanya's 2nd daughter's t-shirts

Another daughter off to college for Thanya and her husband.  This one will attend WOU.

 I love how worn and "loved" this shirt is.  Clearly a favorite.

T-shirt quilt for Carol's friend

This quilt was pieced from the shirts and patches from her friend's husband who has passed away.  He was an EMT, and did a lot of work in Asia to support that.  Hence the center panel below.

But this shirt just makes me happy.

 

T-shirt quilts for Nancy's relations by Michael

Here are 3 t-shirt quilts made by Michael for Nancy's relatives  Not just t-shirts, though, there were flannels, fleece, some metallic knits, you name it.  All quilted free hand to avoid bulky seams, pockets and rhinestones

 

Emily's boyfriend's t-shirts

Thank you for your service to our unnamed firefighter.  Emily reached out to me about making a quilt for her boyfriend from his old T-shirts and uniforms.

All of these patches are stitched to the front of his uniform shirt, and came from the sleeves of other shirts.

 

Shirts for Jasmine's husband

 I've never met Jasmine, she lives in Eugene.  She mailed me the shirts from her husband's runs and then I got to assemble them into a quilt.  I love the cow shirt!

T-shirts for Wendy's daughter

Wendy had planned on making this quilt for her daughter as she heads off to college,
but I think became overwhelmed.  She had cut down and fused many of the shirts, and her mother had chosen the fabrics used in the sashing.  The shirts were cut to many different sizes, so some were built out to size, other rows had large pieces of sashing added to make the entire top square.

 As always, where do these kids find the time?  She plays soccer, LaCrosse, sings in the choir, travels, does student leadership, to name a few.  Well done to the graduate

Shirts for Jaime's mom

 I'm not sure if I've got the relationship correct here, but these shirts belonged to Darrell, Jamie's mom's husband.  Since most of the shirts were button downs, there were pockets that needed to be included.  Then you can't quilt over them, or you won't be able to get into them.  Maybe there is something stored in there.

I'm not making the political statement in the middle block of the quilt.  That was a request from Jaime's mom that that shirt go in the center of the quilt.

Two T-shirt quilts for Lisa's sons

Lisa has (at least) 2 sons, one who will graduate from high school this year, and the other from college.  These are some of their shirts.

I will have to ask Lisa the significance of this shirt since it appears in both quilts.

Her older son, who attended OSU

The stripe is from a pair of pajamas that each son had when they were little boys.
.  How cute to save that and then add them to their quilt.

Being a fellow "band geek" from college, I love this shirt.

 

Abby's daughter's t-shirts

Abby pieced the top for her daughter, who if you could not tell, majored in civil engineering.  Well done to you!

This shirt is my favorite.

 

T-shirts for Norma's grandson

Here's one the Norma pieced for her grandson.

 

"Footbag" banner for Robert

Those of us "not in the know", would refer to this as "hacky sack"

This banner celebrates the group's 10th-20th years.  Sadly, they didn't get to gather during 2020 due to Covid

The two quilts below also include a portion of the back of the shirts that commemorates the loss of a member during that year.

 

T-shirts and dress shirts for Bridget's mom

This is a T-shirt quilt.  Seriously.  Nothing like I've ever worked with before, but boy did I have fun, and learned a LOT.  Bridget took shirts from her mom's late husband's closet and made this stunning quilt for her mom.

Most of the knit shirts were fused with interfacing after having been pieced, but surprisingly, it still worked to stabilize them.  There were a couple that were missed, but thanks to my wonderful APQS machine, it quilted beautifully.

Bridget had asked for a wave design in the predominately blue blocks, and a "topographical" design in the brown ones to represent their time at the beach, camping and hiking.

 She had further requested a feather in the blue portions of the pinwheels, and then a stone/pebble design in the grey/black portions.  Try as I might, I couldn't find a decent pebble design for such a small space, so I ended up finishing the pinwheels and the borders on my Millie machine.  The rest of the quilt was completed on my computerized Lenni.

T-shirts for Nancy's nephew

Much as I would like to claim that I pieced this quilt, no, it was pieced by Nancy.  Since he seems to have graduated in 2009, I think that this nephew is probably a grownup by now. 

I am very curious to know what "Bandancing" is all about

 

Two quilts from dad's flannel shirts for Deborah

This is such a sweet idea and story.  

Deboarh's father has passed away, but they kept the flannel shirts that he wore all the time.  She brought me the shirts with a request to make a throw sized quilt and a twin for her daughters.  After getting a little teary myself, I dove in.  Started by cutting larger squares, but wasn't going to have enough fabric for the first quilt, let alone the second.  So, start cutting again at half the size, and make 4 patch units so go with the larger squares.  Save all the pockets, and no quilting over them, there might be something in there from dad!

I love this label too.  Deborah says that he always wore "The Big shirt".  Bordered and backed with tan because he always wore khaki pants.