Quiltathon Weekend

  I decided to use this time to really try and get one of the 2 t-shirt quilts I'm making for my twin nieces for graduation.

 I've been working since 11:30am (1 hour break for lunch, coffee and to watch a little of the olympics).  I did sew one of my block a day blocks first (but forgot to take a picture of it). I sewed that up as it was laid out and ready to go and I didn't want to have to re-arrange it later.  It was an easy block so after it was done, (drum roll, please) ...

I got out the T-shirts and started----woohoo! 

 Here's a picture of the wall after about 2 hours. 

It doesn't look like a lot of progress but if you can click on the photo and get a closer look, you'll see that the center section has a lot of t-shirts that I sewed in randomly (sorta like making a crumb block!)--who knew learning how to do crumbs a few weeks ago would come in handy with this project.

Here is my faithful helper Annie.  She can not be comfortable sleeping on the ironing board leg---but she was there for at least an hour!

Here is where I left the wall for tonight.  I have the vertical rows sewn together.  It's measuring 81" long. I'm pretty sure it's going to be about 70-72" wide.  I think that's ok.   I hope it doesn't pull my flannel wall down tonight. It's quite heavy with that interfacing on it and the blocks won't stay up by themselves to I have to pin them...which is a pain. 

This is all the leftover t-shirts.  I'm thinking after I sew the top together I should be able to add then across the bottom to increase the length to maybe 86-88".

 I'm so happy with the progress so far. Part of my hesitation in starting these, (besides the fact that I am a procrastinator) was that I've never made a t-shirt quilt before.  It's been a learning experience that's for sure and that's a good thing.