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A Summer T-Shirt Quilt Finish

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It seems like in recent years many of my quilts or projects are gifts. I can't always share right away. This finish is one of those instances.  A friend asked me to put her daughter's t-shirts into a quilt. She planned on giving it to her for her upcoming birthday...a few months ago. I just plum forgot to post it! T-shirt quilts with tons of shirts stop me from too much pre-planning.  I just cut the designs out and start putting them together.  Somehow they all get fit in there without looking weird.  This was definitely a case of tons of shirts!! It was a fun mix of colors and sizes too! I tried a few new things with this one. I actually did some partial seams with rectangles to create a larger rectangle.  I did a black and white polka for cotton for the border. As you can see this was before Miss Vivian arrived at out house so I had to pin baste the old fashioned way.  Here is the finished project! I like how it turned out! There were still too many shirts and one left that h