I had never made a T Shirt Quilt! The unknown skills of sewing on stretchy fabric is one reason, but tutorials say to use light weight iron on interfacing... so that problem is solvable. But will it quilt okay? Hmmmmm
Then there is the problem that they just don't appeal to me! Big, dull 12" T Shirt blocks matching in a grid? No thanks!
But my friend Barbara asked to to look at a chest of her now grown children's clothes. I told her that I didn't do T Shirts and she said they were not T Shirts.
They were. But as I looked them over, and she had a LOT, and she recalled the events associated with them, I began to get an idea. She mentioned how much just seeing pieces of the shirts filled her with joy, she hadn't looked at them for so many years!
I told her I planned chopping them all up, and would use scraps of the Shirts, maybe only leaving only a few letters or a date, scrambling theme very which way. Would she be okay with this? Yep!
I used about 20 grey neutrals to further stabilize the blocks, as well as some cotton from her collection: scarves, a purse, a hankie, children's clothes. I even incorporated a little woven coaster her daughter had made!
She loved it. And yeah, I might do this again.
