Chip & Pepper T-Shirt Quilt

That's right. Chip & Pepper T-Shirts. Ryan had 6 of them, and I wanted to make a quilt out of them, because (and rightfully so) he wasn't wearing them anymore. He said that I was "destroying his childhood" by cutting up the t-shirts (he did say it, but he didn't mean it) and told me that I couldn't cut up one of them. It happened to be the only one of the 6 that wasn't pink...I'm not sure what kind of phase he went through when he was younger, but it involved a lot of pink and purple...

Anywho...I started cutting the squares out of the t-shirts and finally got them all done last week and by Friday afternoon, I had figured out the pattern that I wanted to put the squares in. I started sewing the squares together on the weekend and finished everything last night. At first, I thought I had made a huge mistake...The cotton from the t-shirts was SOOOO soft that I didn't think that it would sew together properly. After I sewed two rows together, I found that it came together better than I thought it would. It ended up turning out better than I had hoped. I have to figure out how to put a backing on it, and decide what backing I want to use. I'm guessing that something flourescent will be the best match though.

It went from this:


To this: