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.
