Sew & Tell Friday: Uncle Aaron's T-shirt Quilt

My little brother left for his mission to Peru almost two years ago.  A few weeks before he left he gave me a bag of his T-shirts and asked if I could make a quilt out of them.  Sure!  Two whole years to make an ol' T-shirt quilt?!  Easy.  Naturally, two years turned into about four weeks for me and I had to hurry up and get this thing figured out.  Truthfully, it kind of sucked the life right out of me.  Who knew it would be so hard to find a way to make the logos on a bunch of T-shirts the right size to make quilt blocks?  And I had to put interfacing on the backs of all the T-shirts or they would roll right up on the edges.  Bah!  All it needs now is a binding.  I still have two weeks.  Plenty of time. 

I found maps of the states Aaron lived in before he went on his mission, traced them onto interfacing, then ironed onto fabric and cut them out and sewed them to a block.  The state blocks are my favorites.  I should make a whole quilt of just the states!  That would be AWESOME.  And really difficult.  Everyone just calm down and think this through, for crying out loud.

I had to supplement the T-shirts with some manly flannels and cotton fabrics.  After ironing interfacing on all those T-shirts, I wasn't about to do the entire quilt with just T-shirts.  Crazy talk.

Bridget helped me cut out some of the logos.  It was mostly to keep her distracted, but the little "Aaron" block was her handy work. :)

The back is "fireside minky" which doesn't shed as much when you cut it, but it's still soft.  Win-win.

So!  There it is.  I can't decide if I like it because I'm done with it, if you know what I mean.  I'll think very hard before I make another T-shirt quilt. :)  Check out some other fancy stuff at Amy's today!