Genz quilt

I don't have a finished photo of this one, but this is pretty close to finished. It was made for a sewing client from her daughter's high school and college t-shirts as a graduation gift. The biggest challenge here was finding a good size to use. As you can see, we ended up using a standard square size and then making it out of a single shirt, horizontal or vertical half shirts, or even quarters of the square as necessary to get everything to fit and to highlight the best parts of each shirt. The one piece that wouldn't fit within our unit we sized to the unit plus sashing and made it the center point.

Machine pieced, hand tied, polyester batting (eventually!)

Nona's quilt, twin size (SewingBAG)

And a twin size version. This project was such a delight. So many little variations, and so neat to know that many family members were able to hold onto these special memories of their "Nona."

Machine pieced, hand tied, polyester batting.

Nona's quilt, lap size #3 (SewingBAG)

Another lap size quilt, again very symmetrical.

Machine pieced, hand tied, polyester batting.

"Nona's" quilt, lap size #2 (SewingBAG)

I honestly can't remember if we tied this one with some red and some periwinkle, or if this was just photos testing out both to get preference from our client! As you can tell from the upper photo, this quilt is not quite complete at the time of the photograph.

Machine pieced, hand tied, polyester batting.

Nona's quilt, full size #2 (SewingBAG)

On this version of "Nona's" memory quilt, we used the batik to define the corners, and a few other pieces in a more symmetrical layout than some of the others (see the green stripeish one and the denim.)

Machine pieced, hand tied, polyester batting (8 or 6 oz).

Nona's quilt, full size #1 (SewingBAG)

This was one of two full-size quilts. The outer border was a fabric that "Nona" had in her collection - everything else in the quilt (except for sashing and backing) was her clothing. The navy/teal batik and the peacock print were truly marvelous pieces that really defined the quilts. Because there was a lot of the batik, we used it as an organizing element - here in a diamond shape through the quilt.

Machine pieced, hand tied, polyester batting.

Nona's quilt, lap size (SewingBAG)

This was another memory quilt for one of my sewing clients. "Nona" had a fantastic wardrobe, and many children and grandchildren who wanted this cozy way to remember her. A whole series of quilts was made from this selection of clothing, so a wider sashing was used to make the clothing items we had to work worth go farther. This one had some embroidered squares stating clearly who the quilt was made to honor.

Although this one was a "lap size" quilt, it was still quite generous. Each in this series was hand tied with a silky periwinkle yarn that matched the sashing fabric, and used polyester batting (likely 6 oz for this one.)