Brooke's T-Shirt Quilt

Next quilt is for Brooke who just graduated high school and will be heading off to college this fall. These are her t-shirts:



The details:



Will post again when it's done!

Joanna's Wedding Dress Quilt

New quilt: Joanna sent me her wedding gown and the dresses her girls wore at the wedding. It was really difficult to begin, as I always hate to start cutting into something that's already finished - and incredibly beautiful too boot.

As proof, here are the true "before" shots of the dress(es):

The dress, from the bodice down.

The straps, detached from the bodice.

Bridesmaid dress, back.

Bridesmaid dress bottom.

It took a long time to cut them up and design a pattern, but here it is laid out:

Since there was so little pink, I decided to use it sparingly in a pattern of x's and o's.



I didn't want to label each square with tape or a pin because I might have damaged the fabric. Instead, I packaged each "line" in a baggie, sewed each line together and then put them back in the baggie which I then labeled.

Here are the baggies all lined up one through 11 plus the bottom and the top. I need to lay it out again just to make sure I didn't make any mistakes and then I'll sew the lines together.

The Lines:

Here it is, all sewn together. The only thing that remains is to add a line at the top and a line at the bottom. I wasn't originally going to but I have white left and it will frame the pink and add to the overall length of the piece.

Once the top and bottom are done I'll need to figure out what to do about the backing. There's still so much tulle left and the beautiful beaded overskirt, so I'd like to use those in some way. I guess we'll see what happens!

Okay, the top is done:

Close up detail of button and loop from the train:

"X" detail:

Still not sure about that back, but I think I'm going to applique the tops of each bridesmaid dress onto the skirts and then sew them together at the waists so that they fan out top to bottom. I know that probably doesn't make any sense and it'll still leave a few holes, but for now that's the best I got.

Okay, here they are: I've attached each bodice to a skirt and then sewed the skirts together at the waist. Next I'm going to add some tulle and we'll go from there.


The back, more squared off:

I used a couple of the underskirts to square it off and attach it to the face of the quilt.

The straps are not tacked down


Okay, here it is!! The wedding dress quit is DONE. You can see that in each corner I appliqued pieces of the beaded over skirt, and along each edge is tulle taken from the underskirts of the little girls' dresses (there was more of it so I used it instead of the one from the wedding gown).

Corner Detail

Corner Detail

Finished:

All quilts by kate are one-of-a-kind originals. A quilt like this would be priced at $500.00.

Crazy Baby Quilt

The Crazy Baby Quilt is DONE! To see how it all came to be click here (finished 1.19.9).

Helen's Husband's T-Shirt Quilt

Helen is a good friend from work who's husband is a big fan of country music. She gave me sixteen of his t-shirts and I turned them into this quilt.




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Kevin's T-Shirt Quilt

All quilts by kate are one-of-a-kind originals. See right panel for pricing. A quilt like this would be priced at the 16-square rate.

Mary Pat's Mom's T-Shirt Quilts

Because we're still waiting for the twins' names and because the fabric store didn't have the backing I wanted for Rosanne's quilt (it's on order, tho, Rosie!), I got started on the first of two quilts for Mary Pat's mom. Luckily for Mary Pat, who wants this project to be a surprise, her mother doesn't read this blog.

On my last trip up to Ballston Spa Mary Pat handed me a gargantuan bag full of t-shirts. There were so many, and they all had such different sized images on them that the only thing that made sense was to do two quilts.

The first quilt:




2nd quilt face is also now done. Just waiting for the fabric to come in to back it with and we're good to go!



All quilts by kate are one-of-a-kind originals. See right panel for pricing. The top quilt would be priced at the 20-square price of $150.00. The bottom quilt would be priced at $110 because the squares are super-sized.

Rosanne's T-Shirt Quilt

While waiting for the Twins' names, I'm going to put together a T-Shirt Quilt for my friend Rosanne. Here are her shirts, cut up and ready to be sewn together:



Here is the finished face from two different angles. As you can see, it's huge. I had a lot of tees to work with, and a few of them had images that were really big, so I did a super-sized version of the pattern.

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Nathan's Quilt

Is finished!


To see how it came together, click here.

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Twins!

Just as I finish up Nathan's quilt I got an order for two crib quilts for a pair of twins who will be born in October.

Here's the fabric we're using for the Boy Twin:


And here's the fabric we're using for the Girl Twin:

I'm probably going to pair Hello Kitty with some soft white flannel, or perhaps some pink and white gingham. It depends on what the fabric store has, but either way I think these are going to be so cute.

To watch it's progress click here.

Update: Boy twin is Jackson Arthur and Girl twin is Giada Marie. Quilts are signed, sealed, delivered and snuggly.

All quilts by kate are one-of-a-kind originals. See right panel for pricing. A quilt like one of these would be priced at $140 each.

Roxanne's T-Shirt Quilt

Roxanne is the daughter of a good friend and she just graduated high school. Here's a quilt I made for her out of her t-shirts from high school:


Side view one:


Side view 2:

Can you guess what her school colors are?

All quilts by kate are one-of-a-kind originals. A piece like this would be priced as a 16-square t-shirt quilt - see right panel for pricing. Measures 56" x 56".

Dad's Necktie Quilt

Finished Necktie Quilt

All quilts by kate are one-of-a-kind originals. A quilt like this would be priced at $650.00.

To see how it all came together, click here.

Joy's T-Shirt Quilt

This is a T-Shirt Quilt with a very special T-Shirt in the center. It was so special, and so big, that I used it as four squares instead of just one. I did this by first repairing it (it was quite old and rather holey) and then I sewed it onto a piece of white flannel so that it would be big enough.

All quilts by kate are one-of-a-kind originals. A piece like this would be priced as a 16-square quilt - see right panel for pricing. Measures 56" x 56".

Kate's T-Shirt Quilt

This particular quilt has college T-shirts, and trip T-shirts (one is from the National Archives in D.C., one is from Boston, four are from France, two are from Savannah, GA, one is from Michigan, and two are from New York). I loved them, but didn't wear them anymore. They lived in my closet, in a box, on a shelf.

Now, I use this quilt all the time. It's great for a little extra warmth while watching TV, or reading a book, or snuggling with my kitty cat.


All quilts by kate are one-of-a-kind originals. A piece like this would be priced as a 16-square quilt - see right panel for pricing. Measures 56" x 56".