Did I Really Do This???

Yes I did....


So this summer I decided to take on a HUGE project.  I MEAN HUGE.  Back in May I started making my sorority T-Shirt quilt and today, September 5th, I finished.  It took me 4 long months, a couple of curse words and some new back cramps to finish this quilt.  Was it worth the stress and physical pain?  ABSOLUTELY!

Here is how it all went down....

Went through my stack of T-shirts from over the
4 years

Made a square Template

 Started cutting.  

And kept cutting

and then cut some more

 After cutting all of the ones that I chose, I laid them out into the pattern that I wanted

Admiral decided to chill in all of the scraps

Then I ironed all 25 squares and backed them with quilting backing.

Mom decided to make some flowers for one of my 

blank  T-shirts

 After all of the squares are backed, I sewed the green zebra fabric in between 

(cue in a lot of mumbled naughty words while at the sewing machine)

Here is what the little flowers look like on the square

So now we are into August...

It's backing time.   

Here we ironed on the quilt backing to make it smoochie 

 Bought some fabric for the back of the quilt 

added some 3-D embellishments to add
some PIZZAZ

Decided to do a "tie" quilt since we don't have 

a quilting machine to do fancy designs.  

created the hem to sew down

 Sewed the hems...

AND VUALA!  

MASTERPIECE!  

I could not have done this on my own though, 

Thank you mom for helping me!