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!
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