Photography-themed Tee-shirt Quilt

Fiber & Textile Completed Projects
#1

I’m not sure if this qualifies as a quilt (versus a blanket), but since it has piecework, a backing & batting & binding, and is lightly quilted I’m going to call it a quilt.

LyttleQuilt01
LyttleQuilt01457×576 139 KB

One of my oldest longest (in time and in height) friends is a photojournalist who commissioned me to make a quilt with his old tees a few years ago. Through him, this is my third tee shirt quilt for a photojournalist! :camera_flash: :sewing_needle:

LyttleQuilt02
LyttleQuilt02425×576 142 KB

This is the first one that I have framed the tees. I like the way it turned out, but I don’t know how much I liked the extra thought, math, work. Yes, I do… not much! :face_with_spiral_eyes: Worth it, but this confirms for me again how I don’t think I will be taking up “real” quilting. :grimacing:

LyttleQuilt04
LyttleQuilt04506×576 137 KB

The back is navy/white flannel and the quilting is wavy lines diagonally across all the squares as well and vertically and horizontally along the cotton frames. All the stitching is in grey.

LyttleQuilt05
LyttleQuilt05432×576 163 KB

I feel really good that I have hardly any of the flannel or quilting cotton left over! I’m hoping to get it sent off soon, so she & her wife can see it (they wanted the final look to be a surprise)! Eep!

17 Likes
#2

Very cool; I know they will love it!

#3

I like the way you arranged the colors.

1 Like
#4

Thanks, friends!

#5

Great job! I’m sure your friend will love it.

#6

Super cool!!

#7

This is very cool. Interesting tees! Definitely a quilt!

1 Like
#8

Thanks so much, y’all!

#9

This is a very niche field.

Did you use just a standard machine, or did you get it quilted? I really like the wavy lines. It would make it less stressful to get everything just so.

1 Like
#10

It is niche, isn’t it? It’s probably best for me that it is, because I did indeed quilt it all on a standard machine - a Pfaff that wasn’t even intended for home quilters! So the “bridge” part is pretty short and it’s a big effort to get it all under the needle. It would be even more challenging to go any bigger - especially with a flannel back. The other two I’ve done have had “straight” lines and I can’t believe it took me until this one to realize that wavy was the way for me to go! At one point I had to ask this client, “You know I’m not a real quilter, right?” :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: I don’t think most people realize what a difference there is between different types of machine sewing!

3 Likes
#11

Double applause then, as I always get horrible pin tucks.

Did you use an adhesive? Or just wide open?

1 Like
#12

There are a couple of pin tucks, but she’d seen the others I’d done and they had a couple, too. I did not use adhesive and do not know what “wide open” even means! :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

2 Likes
#13

I don’t think wide open is a quilting term. I was just saying you must have been straight Wild Wild West!

1 Like
#14

OH! Hahahahaaaaa! Well, I felt like I had the h*ck pinned out of it, but yes. I feel like TheMisterT’s quilter aunt - who I have never met, but whom I’ve heard a lot about - would be disgusted and appalled by my approach. :face_with_spiral_eyes:

2 Likes
#15

:fireworks: This photo-tastic project is one of this week’s featured projects! Woot! :fireworks:

1 Like
#16

Awwww, THANK YOU!

1 Like
#17

This is cool and they had some awesome shirts!

1 Like