It's A Plan

It's good to have a plan, right?

SO I wanted to make another work shirt quilt. Every year during the United Way Campaign at work they have a silent auction. I made a shirt quilt a couple of years ago, and thought I'd do another one.

We got new uniform shirts at work, we're not champions of change anymore.

SO I used light interfacing and cut the embroidered motifs off of all 10 of my shirts.

I had 5 black and 5 hi visibility yellow.

Here it is on the garage door being spray basted.

It was a very sunny afternoon.

I should have made shadow pictures.....

I'm not sure I'm in love with this quilt. But I like it well enough.

I did a big meander job on this one because I used minky for the back. I've noticed people really like the soft stuff on the backs.

The fabric is kind of fun. It's from a couple of years ago-the all Iowa Shop Hop, and it has all the counties in Iowa printed on it.

I really came out good. Not exactly stylish or anything, but very cozy!

I hope it will bring a good price for the United Way!

CofC Shirts

 So where I work, we have uniform shirts. They're pretty nice, you can choose a cotton pique fabric or the Dri-knit poly fabric, but they all have Champions of Change embroidered on the chest. Sometimes we get a pile of used shirts that people have returned when they left employment or they changed sizes.  I saw a pretty big pile of them the other day and got to thinking about a quilt.

 I got a pass out slip to take some home. And then I went ahead and put fusible on the back of the embroidered area. I could only manage to get a 4" square out of them, because most of the shirts were ladies size small and I couldn't get more space between the CofC and the placket front of the shirt.

 I'm just winging it here, I thought I might like this awesome gold fabric, but it seemed so dark.

 Or maybe no blocks in between, but that was pretty small only about 30"X40"ish. I settled on a nice gray solid-Kona from JoAnn's. I made the 9 patch blocks and  added a 6" border along with the last little bits of the black print and the yellow paisley print made it pretty good size about 46"X62"ish. 

 I took it out to the garage door to spray baste it in the morning so it was still shady-it's been sooo hot here!

 I don't know if I'm crazy about the gray borders, but it's done now!

 I used all of my batting scraps to put together the warm and natural cotton batting and I used Minky from Hobby Lobby for the back.

 Here it is after a wash and dry in the dryer. This minky is really low pile, but has a deep nap, some of the stitches really pulled the fibers.

 I just did a fast meander-my favorite-to quilt the whole thing. Those are some pretty good looking corners don't you think!

 I used a black and white and gray variegated thread from Coats & Clark.

 See how that nap looks when you pet ti the wrong way? It is really soft though.

 Well this idea went from my head to done in about a week. I just made it up as I went along and it came out pretty good for a rookie!

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