Wordless Wednesday 298 ~ Indiana Sunset Shots by My Sweet Cousin

Quilt Shot Block 118 ~ Arrowhead

Arrowhead Block

9 inches

I'm just now discovering this method for making this block.

Place fabric right sides together.

Cut two 8 inch squares.

Two inch wide sticky note sheets make a great 2 inch marker.

The sticky note idea came from Anita Solomon.

Please find her quilt block and quilting pattern idea

@

Quilting Daily

where she has a pdf you can download.

Do not stitch 2 inches on 2 opposite corners as shown above.

Cut through the stitched corners.

Keeping right sides up,

rotate 1 over the other

stacking the unstitched areas on top of each other. (as shown above.)

Cut 2 inch strips as shown above.

Press pieces and layout as shown above.

Edges WILL NOT meet.

Trim to 9 inches.

Note the seams will end at the corners.

Quilt Shot 117 ~ Lydia's Tshirt Quilt

Lydia's Tshirt Quilt for Graduation

I said I'd never make another Tshirt quilt after my first

  which was my last.

It was so heavy with a layer of batting and backing,

thus so hard for me to manipulate.

Too much time and money was spent on using

light weight interfacing

only to have it give me tremendous fits

breaking my thread when I quilted it.

After some thought, FB quilt group discussion & a few You Tube Videos,

I decided to save a bunch of time using my serger,

no batting and no cotton backing.

After sorting through and choosing 20 Tshirts,

I divided them into shirts with nothing written on the back

and those that did have something.

Using my 12½ inch ruler,

I quickly cut straight through both layers to the back

on the plain back shirts.

The front would be used for the front of the quilt,

and the back for the back of the quilt.

If something was written on the back

and didn't line up with the front,

then I cut up the side to cut

front and back separately.

The front and backs were laid out together.

So what you see here is actually the front and back of the quilt.

Since no interfacing, spray starch or any sizing of any kinds were used,

I decided on the serger which I used in making knit garments years ago.

The serger differential feed was set on 1.50

A 4 thread 3.0 stitch was set.

(I used scrap tshirt fabric for testing the stitch.)

I'm not a pinner, but I used a ton for this project

just to make sure I didn't stretch the fabric.

I stitched along the edge for a 1/4 inch seam.

At this point, I made adjustments to make sure the edge came together

which didn't happen in the picture above

so it was my last chance to get it even.

I did use an extra pin at intersections

making sure it wasn't in the path of the needle

and especially the blade.

The front and back were worked on simultaneously.

The right sides of the front and back were placed together

and serged around the edge, again using a ton of pins.

About a 10 inch opening was left in the middle of the bottom gray square

in which the quilt was turned inside out.

Then using my sewing machine,

I stitch a 1/4 inch topstitch with a stitch length of 4.0.

Light gray thread was chosen.

I also did an extra hand stitching to finish off the opening.

The label was made and stitched on before the topstitching occurred,

while I could still get through the opening.

Seems like I never can remember to add this to the back

before I put the layers together. Duh....

A bag to hold, carry and present the quilt was made from

left-over tshirts.

Official graduation is tomorrow.

Congratulations Lydia.

A girl of my own heart will be off soon to become a teacher!

Update:

I forgot to show a picture of the back of the quilt.

Lydia sent me a picture to post.