Thoughts from the T-Shirt Lady

I always wanted to get into quilting.

For years, I worked a full time job – about an hour away from my home. It was get up at 4am, get ready to go to work. Leave by 5am. Get to work at 6am, work til 3 or 4 and then drive back home. I was asleep most nites by 8pm! That left the weekend, for any extra tasks or projects. You can just imagine how much I really got done on the weekends – grin….

Now that I’m retired, and finished with all my cancer treatments – retired the end of May 2006, and finished my cancer treatments mid December 2006, I ready to get started!

I have my own sewing business, and recently purchase some beautiful Disney fabrics – Cars and Pooh. I had planned on using them to make some new children’s shirts – but when I got the fabric, some from Ebay and some from Walmart – I discovered that it was for home use only. Well, I should have known!

So I decided that I wanted to make some single bed sized quilts for the grandchildren using these fabrics. But since I had never done any quilting before, I decided to try something small first.

About 18 months ago, I had purchased some really cute 4″ dragonfly fabric squares from Ebay, thinking that maybe I would make a pillow or something. And the fabric just sat there.

Armed with my fabric squares, I went to my local quilting shop, and we found a pattern that would look good, using the squares. I hoped it would be a simple task – I had no foot on my sewing machine that would give me an accurate 1/4″ seam, so I just did the best I could.

Here’s what it looked like after sewing the squares together.

Next I added a 1″ black border, and a 4″ dragonfly border.

I will add pictures as I get more done with this quilt. Finally have time to work on it!

Sandi