Make my T-shirt quilt

now i’m just waiting for my friend’s mom to sew them together.
then i have to buy some sort of background fabric, sew that.
this is very time consuming ha.
but it will be awesome.

the weekend with a friend and we saw some amazing quilts. My friend used to make quilts to order for people and has offered to help me make a quilt. I told her about my goal to make a t-shirt quilt and she wants to make one as well for her husband. She has a bunch of his old concert t-shirts from the 70’s that he was just going to throw out and she held onto them. This be alot of fun. I’m very much looking forward to this.

quilt show with a friend in a couple weeks. Hopefully I can get some ideas so I can get started with this one.

I finished up the final seam tonight while watching Garden State. It feels good to be done, finally!

Got me about halfway to where I need to be. The seam isn’t perfect, but it seems sturdy. I no longer feel the need to put on a label; I can do that much later and it is not critical to calling the project finished.

Putting the quilt on the bed has not helped my motivation to finish it. It works already, it looks nice, it keeps me warm, I can’t see the unfinished seam if I tuck it under the mattress. So why finish it?

Because I said so, that’s why! Tonight, really.

I haven’t closed up the final seam just yet, but I’m hoping to get to it by the end of the year. It just seems appropriate, since I started it in early January of this year.

The fact that it’s not quite finished has not kept me from using it on my bed. It works quite nicely (keeps me warm!) but the cats keep peeing on it! I am not sure what to do about this – it’s not good for the quilt to be washed very often, it’ll wear it out more quickly – but I don’t really want to display it anywhere else than on the bed. I’m wondering if there’s some sort of treatment I can apply to it to deter the kitties from peeing on it without deterring them from snuggling with me at night….

But I put the quilt on the bed anyway. I’m hoping that seeing it all the time will motivate me just to finish it off.

so my consequence is to get rid of all the t-shirts I’ve been saving for a second t-shirt quilt. I will put them into my donations bag tonight.

It’s kind of silly that I haven’t finished; for three weeks all I’ve had left to do is sew up the final side. I’d like to make a label at some point, but it wasn’t part of my criteria for finishing.

Also, it’s kind of sad that there’s no notification whatsoever when you’ve failed a challenge. It doesn’t put the consequence you’ve chosen onto your 43T list or anything.

I did finish the knotting yesterday, after all. What’s left is to close up the bottom seam, at which point I can start using the quilt. Then I need to make and sew on a label, and I’ll be done.