HOT T Shirt Quilt

So, my cousin Kathy, in Florida, sent me a box of T shirts from her Dad, who passed away in 2018. They are very stylish shirts with most of them having designs by Guy Harvey. I had to google him. He's an artist, scientist and environmentalist who supports care of marine habitats. So a good guy.

SO I go the shirts ready to go while I was thinking about what pattern to go with. It takes a long time/lot of work to de-bone shirts and get them fused to lightweight interfacing. Iris helped. 

She was helping flatten them out.....anyways, I got some really nice interfacing off Amazon, here.

It is the perfect weight, and adheres really well. 

I got them all trimmed to 19" square. Most of them are in good shape, but I had one that needed some work, so I mended that one and moved on. 

Iris likes the pattern I chose-a shadow box design. I had a nice day shop hopping with my other cousin, Robin, we got all the fabrics I needed for this project and another project that is coming along too. 

I got it loaded on Freddie, that pretty blue backing was so smooth and nice to load. 

And I chose this design that looks kind of ocean-ie to me anyways. It's actually tribal something or other, but by the time I got done playing around it's more ocean then anything I think!

I struggled with Freddie a little bit, but changed the needle to a bigger one and gave it a tiny turn to the left and it looks pretty good. 

I keep seeing this little thread pull at the points of the design, but I hope it will relax after a nice washing.

All done! Off we go for a trim and binding.

The back is pretty!

And the front is pretty too!

I like the shadow box effect. THe dark fabric is Licorice from Confetti Cottons. The blue map-like print is from Riley Blake's line called National Parks-topographic blue.

On the porch it does look good! It's around 90degrees today, so the sun was going down and it was cooling a tiny bit. 

I love the way it came out, I hope Kathy loves it. 

ANd with the pockets, I put together this pillow, and the back is the one duplicate t shirt she sent, I didn't want to use it in the quilt, because it's the same picture. 

And lookie at those points after a quick wash-almost perfect! Just as I hoped! 

I always learn a few new things with every quilt I make, and this one was a good learning-it's been awhile since I made a t shirt quilt. And this was a first for Freddie. I gotta remember that bigger needle helped a lot to eliminate the broken threads issue I was having.

Fourth of july Weekend

Started the day with a good antique show at the fairgrounds with DD and D. He loved these garden bell chimes. They were beautiful!

And there's always a lot to see. We bought some glass milk bottles for DD to use for her Lego Flowers.

 

I bought a coffee cake-it's delicous! 

Then it was parade time in the afternoon.

D had the hang of collecting candy pretty well this year.

Our little town parade is always a lot of fun.

And we also visited the folks too. 

 

June is Almost GONE!

 So, It's been a little busy, I had a yard Sale on Saturday. It's a lot of work to move junk...I mean merchandise, from one place to another. 

I piled it all in the garage to get it ready for Saturday.

I also sold some quilts at the bargain price of $50each. I sold 4!!!

By the afternoon we were down to this much stuff! We did really well! Kids clothes sold well! 

Dad was hospitalized up in Waterloo, he went to his local hospital complaining of chest pains, and they sent hijmm on to the cardiac unit in Waterloo. He spent 4 days there, they inserted a new stent, and he seems as good as new now. 

And Hubs was in the hospital, at the VA to get some blood transfusions, he was a little low. No one knows why, but this happens once in awhile. He's as good as new again too!

This guy was very helpful. 

Well, that's enough of hospitals for this year I hope!!

And we worked in a trip to the drive in too!. 

Busy Times

 SO I got the burn pile under control! The first burn took us down pretty well, but look here!

We're down to the ground! No more brush pile here!

There was a small mishap with the lawn mower....my hose is now about 3' shorter now than it was before. 

When I went to Albion, I stopped at the Presbyterian Church. They are now closed. They were having a yard sale. It's a sad thing, but is getting to be a common occurance. This was my childhood church, and I loved the windows.

And the big organ-it never was used as I remeber it, but I heard that it does operate. 

This stereo set up was used to play carrilion music-from LP records- through speakers in the church steeple. It was only on a few special occasions, like Christmas, but the music sounded so cool as I remember it anyways!

It's a really beautiful sanctuary, I hope it gets sold to someone for a venue or somehintg.  The curved pews are so pretty. 

They have pew cusions now! That's an improvment-you'd think that would get some folks into the seats!

The small office rooms all have stained glass windows too. This was a Sunday Schol classroom for awhile when I was a kid. 

And here's the problem...

With only a dozen or so people in church any given Sunday, you can't even pay the electric bill with that attendance, let alone pay a pastor.  It's a big loss for the community-there is no church now and no school. That's a death toll for the town I think, lucky they are not a bad location for commuting for work in bigger towns. 

ANd this guy was being helpful and using the magnet roller to pick up nails from the brush pile ashes. He's pretty good help. 

And very busy help too!

The water is always a favorite-it was crazy hot the last few days.

Time to upgrade from the triccyle-he calls it his e bike-I've got a new bike ordered for him!