Erica's T-shirt Quilt #2

Finished General Mills Quilt

      This is the other t-shirt quilt I made for my friend's daughter.  She worked for General Mills and accumulated a lot of t-shirts and other things from working there.  She sent me t-shirts, lanyards, bandannas, a hat and even a rain coat.  The only thing I didn't use was the raincoat.

Layout idea

Fabric idea

     I did a general layout first to get an idea of size.  Then I found a fabric in my stash that I had bought to be part of a black and white quilt for myself.  It was a larger piece and I thought it would make great sashing, not fighting with all the colors but also not boring.  Erica approved and then it was time to get to work.

Pieced block and lanyard in sashing

Lanyard in pieced block

Hat piece topstitched in place

     I played around with the t-shirts, combining some into one block, even turning them sideways to fit better.  I add the lanyard in a couple of different places, once between two t-shirts that were combined to make a block and once in the middle of a sashing piece.  I wanted to use both the crown and the brim of the hat on the quilt, but I couldn't get it to lay flat enough so I opted to use only the crown as  the brim was fairly thick.  I did have to undo my sewing to place the hat piece into the seam between the pieced block and the sashing strip.

Pieced backing

     I found a good deal at Missouri Star online for three yard cuts of black batik for the backing.  Unfortunately it wasn't quite enough.  Fortunately I had enough of the sashing fabric that I could make a big enough back and still have enough to do the binding.

Sewing on the binding

     After getting it back from the quilter, Chris J, I added the binding to the back, brought it around to the front and stitched it in place.

Back corner detail

Front corner detail

     Another fun project but I did have to use my brain a bit more to make sure all the columns were the same length.