Hmm, well here I am.

Hello there.  I finished a quilt!  Hurrah! A cousin of mine lost her husband 5 years ago.  She requested me to make her a quilt out of his shirts.  She didn't ask too much for specifics, just wanted the back of one shirt as the center, this cross. I don't always go into projects with an exact design or plan in mind.  She did say she wanted it to be symmetrical and that was pretty easy to abide by.  I used the light fabrics to make the center into a star around the cross. Next I decided I didn't want to do the whole quilt on the diagonal so I added large triangles and a solid red border to bring it back to square. Trying to give it some continuity I added another border of half square triangles in solids.  He wore western button up shirts as you may have guessed.  I had LOTS of designs and patterns to work with.  Some of the shirts just had embroidered designs on the chest sections.  I used them in several spots in the top to make corners. At this point I changed my mind aga