Another Finish

 

So my past employer has a fundraising silent auction for the local United Way. When I retired, I kept my uniform shirts with the plan to make a quilt for the silent auction. 

And so here it is!

Simple Irish Chain design. I didn't have a pattern, I just winged it!

I'll never see work uniform shirts again! YAY!!!!

Scrappy blue colors and scrappy whites too!

I just need to go and drop it off in the next few weeks. And I also finished this little table runner that I got on the Illinois Shop Hop. 

The kit came with a light blue fabric for the inner border, but I didn't think it went very well.

So I just used more of the dark red that came in the kit. 

I backed it with some heart fabric, so now it's good for January and February too!

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!