Remember the Scrappy Shirt Quilt Top? I put a border on it, I pieced a back for it, and I've started quilting it!
Here's a glimpse of the light blue border that goes all the way around.
For the back, I pieced a lot of 10-inch squares that were cut from shirts ... blues and grays ... along with a blue & white floral ...
Actually, I sewed the blue floral "inside out" ... for a couple reasons: The more muted blue of the back of the fabric blended better with my shirt fabrics. And ... using the fabric this way reminds me of the Hawaiian-style shirts the waiters wore at my dad's restaurant a long, long time ago. When I was little, I was intrigued (and slightly disturbed) that those Hawaiian shirts were sewn "inside out" - with the bright side of the fabric on the inside, and the muted pastel look on the outside.
So ... I've started quilting ...
... and quilting ...
... and quilting ...
... and quilting.
Lots of straight(ish) lines.
Next up: loopy, wavy lines in the open spaces.
More quilting to come. More pictures to come.
For now, this quilt is rolled up, looking cute ...
What a neat note about your dad. I've used fabric inside out before, I seem to recall a border I put into one of DD's quilts had some garish print on it, but went reversed it just looked like puzzle pieces on a bluish purple - what we around here call blur-ple.
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