Not A Knit: The T-Shirt Quilt - FINISHED!

 So it's only been an actual age, but I finished the T-shirt quilt!

Inside is a thrift store flannel blanket that I got for $1.50 (much cheaper than cotton batting -- I don't think I've ever used quilt batting, I just use old blankets! that I trimmed to fit. She has an old black sheet as a back which I chose not to photograph because... it's just black. The outside is blue quilt binding. 

The reason she took me so long is because she wouldn't fit in my machine to quilt, so I ended up quilting the center stripes of diamonds by hand. The outside went much faster once I could put it on the machine. I did one half of the binding by hand as well, with the first side put on by machine and the second side felled down invisibly -- on the black side, which was a mistake, because it was very hard to see my own stitches. 

I'm very pleased with how she turned out; I'm cosied down in bed underneath this quilt as I write. I do hope you all find ways to use your own scraps and odds and ends as happily as I did!

Make Do: Sewing Scrap Pillows

 

Video editing is hard. I'm learning. It's a process.

As it is, a few comments on this particular project:

The scraps were originally pants (the black of one pillow), a random black scrap that I don't remember aquiring (black of the other), and some velvet and polyester brocade that I found in the Wal-Mart clearance bin 5 years ago. The original brocade project was a wall hanging (which still looks amazing) but the scraps have stuck around for five years, so it feels great to use them up.

The best trick I know that is used in this video is the ladder stitch. Years of top-stitching my pillows closed, only to find out that I could have used this very simple stitch the whole time!

Thank you for joining me, and please, let me know what you do with your cabbage and coleslaw, and show me any pillows you've made! 

If you'd like to know a little more about this project (only a very little) try finding me on Textillia.