This has been an ongoing project due to its size. When finished it should be about queen size, aprox 90 X 108 inches for. Each block is about 7.5 in. finished and there is a lot of blocks. The whole quilt is made out of old dress shirts. As with all my up-cycle project I cut them apart so they’re easer to work with.
So I started with some sketches, this is the one I’m using for laying out the finished pieces so it is not to fancy, just coloured pens and some highlighters. The pattern drawings have gone miss at the moment. So log cabin I thought would be a good block the use.. a nice manly square right? Any who… I set to work collecting what I’d hoped would be enough shirts to make the entire quilt top. I used about 15 shirts or so and a 1/2 meter piece of red cotton for the centers (could not find and red shirts for the life of me at the time.)
Next I cut out a crap load of 2in. squares out of the red for the centers (there is about 100 finished squares) and I did a few pieces at a time for the strips of each colour and threw them into a bucket I keep beside my desk, the strips are 1 1/4 inches wide, and I left them in long strips instead of trimming them to size. When the bucket was full I would sew some squares.
I left the 1 1/4 in. strips long so I could run them through the machine one after the other in a long chain, and when on ran out I would grab another out of the bucket at random and continue on. Making sure to grab the right colour 2 blue then 2 white ect…
So I did this many many more times. After each row you have to cut apart the chains, I used my handy dandy quilting ruler to make sure I was square as I went. and pressing the seams before attaching the next row. I did 3 rows of each blue and white
Here are a few of the finished blocks all trimmed up and ready to go. In part 2 I’ll show you some of my layout ideas.
Until next time!
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