One More Thing....

The last thing I listed at the beginning of the week was on quilting and sewing with floss. I heard that a quick fix if you don't have thread is to sew with floss! Sometimes that is a little more readily accessible when you need to keep a button on your shirt short term.

And quilting...well, this will be a little stalled once again. I am in the process of making a t-shirt quilt. Here is a post on this from a while back. I got a sewing machine from my father-in-law for Christmas and as I was putting all of the pieces together and...I lost a very important screw :(. So I will have to contact the company and get that replaced. So that little story will Be Continued.

My Quilting Experiment

This is a picture of a quilt that my best friend, Kristin, made for me several years ago. I had collected quite a few t-shirts over the years from high school and college and just couldn’t bare to part with them. I didn’t care about wearing them, but each shirt was sort of like a scrapbook of sorts.

So, I hauled all my precious shirts over to Arkansas where Kristin could help me put together this quilt (And when I say ‘help me’, I mean she did most of the work). Well, its now been over 8 years since I have graduated college, 4 or 5 years ago since the quilt was created, and I have now accumulated a few more t-shirts I LOVE and that mean a lot to me. Also, I have gotten married since then, and my husband has a couple of drawers full of t-shirts that mean a lot to him.

I believe that this would be a great way to clean out our closet as well as have something that we can utilize often and pass down as an heirloom.

Now, do I know how to quilt…not really. Mostly no. But there are plenty of websites and library books out there that can assist me in this project. And, if you have any advice or tips for me I would GLADLY accept it! So in about a month, be watching for updates on my quilting adventure!