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Hey CD,
I made the quilt that got auctioned off at iri, and am looking for a new project.

Before you get too excited, here is more information:
I want to make an experimental tee shirt quilt that would be unlike current quilts I make. Some who attended iri and looked at the quilt may have noticed hexagon pieces on the sides. I would like to make a tee shirt quilt composed entirely of hexagon cut outs.

Why am I telling you?
I don't have the shirts to try out on. Once I made my personal quilt I was done collecting shirts (aside from some oddballs). I need roughly 16-20 shirts to make a size-a-ble quilt, but I could probably make do with less (I do have leftover scraps from the iri quilt).

What do I want?
If anyone is willing to risk their shirt collection for their own personalized quilt, you should let me know. I will do some proof of concept testing before I start working on the quilt to make sure the quilt is doable and within stretching distance of my current quilting skills.

What does it cost?
Relatively little for a quilt. You'd have to cover shipping expenses and some base materials costs (interfacing, batting, backing fabric, spool of thread) but I try to be frugal with those things and do to the nature of the experimental quilt it won't require as much fabric which drives costs down to about ~50 usd (compared to the ~100 I put into the iri quilt). Any tips after that are up to you, however if I get multiple volunteers I may take potential income into account (poor college kid and all)..

How long would it take?
It's hard to say because I will be back in university and school always comes first. But I would make it a priority to have it completed by Christmas time.

Other quilts I've made
This doesn't prove anything other than I've spent a lot of time quilting (although I'm not nearly as intense as some quilters out there), but here are pictures of other quilts I made:
Quilt for a friend and and 2014 IRI Quilt. You can't see the hexagons very well in the photo of the IRI quilt. Because of my binding choices (binding: attaching front of quilt to back of quilt), the hexagons didn't come out super crisp on the IRI quilt. This is something I plan to change with my next quilt (namely by practicing on scrap first).
Thread from my personal tee shirt quilt.

I have some left-over fabric from both robotic quilts (there is one featuring mostly non-robotics shirts), so you may be in for a treat with some hexagons from other shirts (ie I have some hawiaan shirt material left, and some of the soft nursery fabric I used as borders/backing, among other tidbits). This quilt has potential to be very colorful, but if there are colors that you absolutely detest, I can do my best to make sure they don't make it in (but if you send me a black shirt and say you don't want black, I will be very confused).

So if you are interested or know someone who would be interested, let me know. I love quilting and would be excited to make a neat quilt for someone who always wanted a tee shirt quilt but couldn't afford/make one.

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Re: Need volunteer to want tee shirt quilt

Katie, I would be more than interested.
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Re: Need volunteer to want tee shirt quilt

Just wanted to tell you that I was lucky enough to see both this and last year's quilts at the IRI. You are very talented. Thank you for your efforts.
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Re: Need volunteer to want tee shirt quilt

I'd be willing to donate my sizable t-shirt collection (and cash for you to make it). I could also lend you use of my Brother PRW-6800 Embroidery Machine if it would help.

I have probably close to 100 t-shirts between Robotics and Cheer.

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I've gotten three volunteers and will be pulling a name out a hat sometime soon. Stay tuned and thanks
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Re: Need volunteer to want tee shirt quilt

I just cleaned out a stash of event volunteer shirts going back a decade, including many from the championships.
More than 20. Ideas?
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Re: Need volunteer to want tee shirt quilt

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I just cleaned out a stash of event volunteer shirts going back a decade, including many from the championships.
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Donate them to event fundraising auctions.
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I just cleaned out a stash of event volunteer shirts going back a decade, including many from the championships.
More than 20. Ideas?
Have them turned into a quilt. We used these people to do my new nap blanket. http://www.projectrepat.com/ Very nice. Contact me I get 25% off deals all the time.

A super volunteer of the year award, but be careful, you might get it back
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Re: Need volunteer to want tee shirt quilt

These shirts are well, ahem, loved. Faded, most are white (the championship didn't start with the snazzy colors until 3? years ago.)

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Re: Need volunteer to want tee shirt quilt

Those would make a super nifty quilt! I would not be able to get myself to cut them up for this project (each hexagon is about 6-8 inches across)(I don't know the size off the top of my head). But keep in touch and that would be a fun and historical project.
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I think I will look into having them made into a quilt. Thanks for all the input!
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Re: Need volunteer to want tee shirt quilt

Proof of concept has been completed:

http://i.imgur.com/LljjrRp.jpg?2

Hexagons are 6" across (after accounting for seam tolerance). The quilt would look better with contrasting colors, but I just used left over hexagons from the IRI quilt which were mostly black.
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