The T-Shirt Quilt

It took awhile, but the quilt is finally finished.

I worked on it off and on for close to a year.

It was made using 30 of my oldest son's race shirts.

David is a runner, marathoner and ironman.

Each shirt was washed and cut apart dividing them into fronts & backs.

I rough cut the fronts to around 15"x15" then ironed a lightweight fusible stabilizer (Pellon) to the backsides.

All the shirts were then cut to 14"x14".

The blue sashings were cut to 2 1/2" and I stitched 6 rows of 5 blocks each.

I had a local lady quilt it on a longarm machine.

She did a wonderful job on it.

I cut a continuous strip of binding 2 1/2" wide and machine stitched it around the quilt. I had to stitch it at the kitchen table to support the quilt.

The finished quilt measures approximately 80" wide x 95" long.

My son loved it.

I've very proud of all of his accomplishments!