Tee Shirt Quilt

I'm working on a tee shirt quilt. This is the first time I've been asked to make one. This one is for a guy who plays softball with a senior league. A box of shirts arrived last week and I dug right into them. Most of them were white with emblems of various sizes.

I have to admit that I found this task a bit daunting until I found this tutorial over at Happy Quilting: http://www.happyquiltingmelissa.com/2013/08/t-shirt-memory-quilt-tutorial-and.html

I love the way she simply kept adding scraps of fabrics and then squaring as she went. I'm finding this technique works really well for such odd sized pieces of tee shirts.

I have two cats so I can't leave the pieces on the floor. I'm using masking tape to attach them to a large wall in my sewing room. I like that I can get a good look at how things are coming along and I can move things around.

(BTW - that lower corner is completely changed. I wasn't loving those prints/colors there...but you've got to start somewhere).

Making a quilt for an older man is tricky because I don't want the finished product to be too juvenile. Plus, I'm limited as to the fabrics I can use because I don't want it to look to feminine. I'm using a lot of plaids with some other misc. fabric scraps mixed in. I'm also throwing in some hand embroidery where I can..

I'll keep plugging away and hopefully finish with the blocks shortly. I'm planning to machine quit it using the "quilt as you go" method on each block. Then, I'll hand sew the blocks together. After that, I'll add a boarder. Baseballs in each corner and bats along each edges I think...unless I change my mind.