T-shirt quilts

 I don't know if I posted before about making the t-shirt quilts from my late husband's t-shirts (99! of them), but that's what I'm doing with the intention that there will be one each for several of our grandkids.  Not ALL of the grandkids will get one, mainly because they weren't all that close to him. I'm planning on making eight at this point; I may be able to make more depending on how many shirts I use for each quilt.

I'm making them to be approximately 60" x 60" and this first one will be made up of nine 19" blocks - 3 x 3.  I'm debating on making the ninth/center block from something other than a t-shirt front; I've been considering several possibilities such as printing a photo of Grandpa or maybe just his name onto a cotton square and then adding strips around the block until it's the size I need.  Or, I could use one of his bandana handkerchiefs... or even work something out around one of his white handkerchiefs that has his initial on it.... Decisions, decisions.

Ok, anyway, here's some photos of yesterday's work.... I was trying to make 'shadow' blocks from memory..

Obviously, my memory wasn't working all that great.  I know there was a quilt I saw where the squares looked like they were floating and the piecer joined the two strips end to end like in the first photo, but I couldn't find it when I went looking for the photo.. so on to attempt #2... Nope, still not quite right....

Finally, got it... found a photo of a string quilt that I made for charity where I had a 'shadow' for each block and realized what I needed to do.

The next two went a lot easier and faster....

The gray that I'm using is a light medium shade ( which means it's darker than it shows in the pic).  I knew that since most of his shirts are either black or dark/navy blue, using black for the shadow wasn't going to work.

The weather here is predicted to be bitter cold over the next few days so I went and got groceries last night so that I can hunker down and just sew ( as long as we have power- KNOCK ON WOOD).  My only reason to go outside is to walk Buddy and I have a feeling he's not going to want to be out any longer than absolutely necessary - and I completely understand.

take care....

STAY WARM/SAFE...

ttyl......