Thread Tales From A Scrappy Quilter

I've been an officer for KO Wrestling Booster club for the past 2 years and another member of our team also serves on the committee responsible for the Senior Prom for this year.  She asked if I would make a tshirt quilt to raffle as a fund raiser.  My son is a junior this year, not a senior but I agreed if it could be small.  My recommendation was a 12 tee quilt.    Cyndi agreed to reimburse for the fabric, the rest was my contribution.  Cyndi chose the style from examples I showed her and also rounded up new tshirts that represent events or activities that occurred during these 4 years.  I took one of the best Tees for school colors with me to shop for fabrics and found the perfect Black and Gold in Kona Cotton and then found a bright, colorful fabric for the backing.      After careful consideration of all the tees she was able to obtain, some were culled because they were prom events that only senior...

Some pretty quilts this past week.   Everything was quilted in an all over design.   This was a queen size quilted in "Clematis" pattern with lots of texture.     Hard to photo the detail but it looks really nice in person.     Customer's Desert Sky.   Allover freehand  open swirl   A cute, large flannel quilt.  Freehand feather flower swirl And a big 100" T-shirt quilt - whew.   This is one that I can have fun with next week!       I almost have my Summer in the Park top finished, setting the rows together.                           

Another T-shirt quilt with a large meander per customer request.  This one is very pretty in person and snuggly too!