{Post 1,751} Hubby Surprise

 

My husband moved his office from in our finished basement (actually, out in the garage, but in a finished area) to the room right beside my sewing room. We both are facing the same wall, and he talks quite loudly on the phone! He had all his furniture arranged, then rearranged. Shortly thereafter, he came into my sewing room with a sheepish look on his face. “Can I use one of our quilts for the wall?” Then he proceeded to ask me what it would take to put up his favorite quilt on the wall behind his computer. I finally have him trained. We have quilts on our walls where I guess most people have pictures. So I sewed a sleeve onto his favorite and proceeded to help him get it up on the wall. Bonus? It muffles the sound of his screaming—I mean talking—on the phone a little. Here’s a before and after!

Now for an update on the wedding quilt. I am not posting on FB about it anymore. Although my future niece-in-law picked out the pattern and colors, I want the finished product to be a surprise to her. I visited at my MIL’s this past weekend (It’s 6 hours away, but my husband had committed to working on a house project with our daughter who is 3 hours on the way. I dropped him off and headed over by myself.). I sewed, then cut the squares into quarters diagonally, and she pressed them all open. Once I got home I trimmed all of them and started piecing. The pattern has a cool, time-saving way to make all those HST. A color square and a neutral are put RST, then stitched 1/4” all around the outside, then cut diagonally both ways, then ironed open and trimmed. Here are some self explanatory pictures. I had cut all the shirt squares before I went to the cabin.

I get lots of questions about using shirts for quilting. I got started by reading Bonnie Hunter’s Quiltville blog about it. Here is my collection (all the wire baskets and the top drawer of the plastic drawers). Then one drawer pulled out so you can see how full they are. I keep them sorted by colors and all the neutrals are together.