A Finish Full of Memories.
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...