Update on T-Shirts
Here is the skinny on t-shirts: they could pass for oil cloth tablecloths. None of the 16 shirts I had to work with were plain soft cotton t-shirts. The rubberized vinyls have taken over. This may be the last of projects such as this for me. A stabilizer needs to be put on the back of the shirts so they become a square that is able to be worked with in organizing and stitching the quilt top. All of these shirts had to have a pressing cloth laid on top of them to allow the heat of my iron to adhere the stabilizer on the back of them. When quilting the top of the quilt, I needed to stitch through newspaper on each block as I didn’t have the special presser foot that rolls over the vinyl. The newspaper then needed to be removed via the perforations that the stitching did. Bummer to the nth degree. Tomorrow I will dig through my stashes to find something to use as the binding. No . . . the back of this quilt has not been photographed. I was not going to purchase any new yardage for this project and it got pieced and pieced and pieced. Sew be it.
I will say that the morning right up until twelve noon was spent outside on the patio visiting with neighbors. The air was nice with a bit of a breeze and no biting bugs. The wonderful morning enjoying coffee and chit chat started the day off great. I knew what I had been battling these last few day with this quilt and there was no point of putting it off. As I have said there may not be any more of these quilting bartering projects. I would sooner offer . . . not putting myself in a bartering situation to begin with, especially when it involves family.