This week for my NLP project (T-Shirt Quilt) I had wanted to get all of the T-Shirts cut to the right size and laid out so that I could see what the pattern was going to look like. This did not happen. I worked this week on making my final decisions of what shirts would go in the quilt as well as the size piece that they would be. My pattern calls for 9 different size block pieces, and based on the size of the shirts logo, I put them into the right categories. As I was separating them into piles I realized that I was going to run out of shirts, so the pieces I picked for the 4x4 blocks I might not use in the final product. Instead, I may try to incorporate some of the fabric I intend to use for the back of the quilt.
(Pattern) (T-shirts in size piles)
The place that I ran into trouble this week was in cutting the templates for the pattern. I found some old cardstock paper in my basement and decided that would be the best to use because it was pretty heavy. I started by cutting the largest size (16 ½ x 16 ½) making sure to take into account the seam allowance (¼ on each side, ½ total). While I was measuring I became extremely frustrated. Because the paper was old, and had a little water damage, it was not completely square. So I would measure out one side but when I went to measure the opposite the line was not straight. My mom gave me a tutorial on how to hold the ruler and the straight edge, but it was still very slow going. Even as I was holding the ruler straight and cutting, the straight edge would nudge the ruler over and the line would not be perfectly straight. It took me over an hour just to get all of the templates cut, and because of my frustration, I decided that the templates would be the end for me today.
(Tools for quilt) (Template paper and ruler)
(Tools for quilt) (Template paper and ruler)
(Finished Templates....Finally!!)
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