Design Floor Monday - Shirt Strings

Shirt quilt so far.  I figure 7-8 rows of 6 blocks, plus a border, binding.  All made out of shirts that I found at thrift shops or garage sales.  This is for the Hubz, and he is so totally into it that he now scouts out shirts for me.  The rules for this particular quilt are:  all-cotton if possible, although there are some cotton/poly blends in here; colors are blues and white and/or a bit of green.  In my fair isle knitting years, I always had a sparkle color someplace to add a bit of zip to the pattern, and now in my quilting years, the same thing holds true.  So, the green adds the zip.  Well, at least I think so.

Here's what a block looks like before trimming. 

And here it is after trimming.

Cool, huh?  I could do this all day long.  I see many more string quilts in my future.  I love the process, plus it doesn't matter much if my seams are wonky.  Yay, wonky seams.

I've spent maybe $10 - 15 on these shirts so far, and I have so much material that I can easily make 3 more of these quilts.  Now I want to use "real" fabric for the next one, and play around with sewing blocks together and then cutting to make different blocks.

Sale Day is Here, Today!! 9-9 East Coast Time!!

Ta da, my first ever sale! Such excitement. Now I'm sitting here, figuratively biting my nails and waiting for 9 AM to see if people are buying. Is this idiocy or what?

Have you noticed a fall nip in the air? Yesterday the house never got about 65 degrees, and that was late in the day. Most of the day it was 63. Chilly. Did we put the heat on? Us, the great mingy ones? Are you talking about the Hubbo and me?

NOPE!

I have this idiot thing in my head about no heat until Oct. 15. I've never yet made it to Oct. 15, but still I try. So we layer and layer and pretty soon we look like Michelin men.

Yesterday we did the thrift shop thing, and I found a stunning little sweater of 80% silk/20% cashmere for $5!! In my size. In perfect condition. What a bargain. You have to understand that I get snobby about my clothing, so I've been resisting the thrift shop thing forever. Ahem, I was wrong. Shock! Amazement! I was wrong. Me, the perfect one. You can find some of the loveliest clothing in really nice thrift shops.

Off to do my thing. I may post later on today, depending on cameras and photographs and such.

SALE!

Ria and Jen - Yay, you all! I'll mail out tomorrow, I hope. Thank you for buying. The Hubbo thanks you because now he doesn't have to listen to me worry. And now I can dye more goodies. Like I need an excuse.