For the past few months I have embarked on the journey known as the t-shirt quilt. I know, so stereotypical! Sorority girl graduates and cries about how much she misses her chapter then makes a t-shirt quilt to commemorate all the amazing formals, date parties, philanthropy events and sisterhoods! So I have been saying since May that I was going to start on my quilt, May was about two months ago so I guess I am working on a decent timeline (not really). Well it's July and I have finally done it! I know I am so proud of myself too. By done it, I mean I have started I am no where near done with this quilt.
So first things first, the cutting begins. Cutting up every Chi Omega t-shirt I have is really hard. Like really hard, I didn't think it would be but I did have to stop a couple of times and reminisce. It was difficult because I have spent my whole college career in these shirts, like every single day (that's all I wore, yeah I was that girl). So there is a lot of cutting, a lot, a lot more than you would think. I even got a blister on one of my fingers from all the cutting. That wasn't very fun, but eventually I finished cutting the shirts.
On top of all that there is a talent to the cutting. You have to make sure every thing is cut properly. There has to be straight edges and lines. If not your quilt will probably look a bit of a mess. I messed up a lot and had to cut closer and closer to my design and that kind of frustrated me. This means that when I go to sew the shirts together it will be sewn very close to the design and sometimes that looks a little ratchet.
Luckily I took a good 4-8 day break after cutting all of my designs so I got to rest up for the next part of making my t-shirt quilt. By taking a break I mean I stopped and haven't really picked it back up because I am the worlds best procrastinator. I guess all the cutting got to me and just made me really tired (lol).
Next up is putting all of the shirts out and seeing how I am going to position them and create this awesome t-shirt quilt. I am very sure I will have to cut more shirts because I think you have to have a certain amount so the shirt looks even. I know I said I cut up all the shirts I have but I did save about five of my favorite ones to wear on lazy days. Follow me on this journey and stay tuned next week for more progress. Hopefully more progress will mean I finished the quilt.
