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!

#p&gemployee

Kid Sewing

SO vacation is over for me, I have to go to work this afternoon. Sad Face......
But I had t o get some fabric sewed up for the Girlfriend-In-Laws kiddos before summer ends altogether!
 I got this book at the church yard sale back in June and thought I'd give it a whirl for the TMNT dress for Little Jaymie.

 

The book comes with a pattern you just trace off in the size you want and then they suggest all kinds of embellishments and alterations. I just went basic with a good pocket on the front. 

I think she liked it-she wore it to the fair! I pointed out to her that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on this fabric have the words Sewer Surfing on it and that sewer is spelled the same as sew-er! So maybe the TMNT are really sewing not surfing the sewer. 

Then I switched to McCall's 6099
 to make this Pokemon shirt for Young Kevin. he hasn't gotten it yet. I just finished it this morning and I like the way it turned out!

I hadn't made a collar shirt in quite awhile so it took me a little bit to remember the way to do things. But it finished out very nicely!

 Off to pack my lunch...back to work!

Done!

Awhile back...maybe a year, maybe not...my Mom sent me this package. Inside was this note: Bonnie, I am so tired of trying to get this together, so I am sending it to you to see if you can do anything with it. Love Mom.
Well OK then! Inside the package was a white shirt-well parts of a white shirt- with pretty piping . Well it sat on my sewing desk for a long time, and I got to thinking that I should finish all my projects before the new year.

I swear I didn't hack into the placket!!!
Sleeves attached!

Cuffs attached!
Placket sewn!

Buttons & buttonholes done!

Finished! That placket is a little narrower than it should be but there was that hunk hacked out....
I can't wait for Mom to get her shirt since it finished out pretty well!