Ollie's Kindergarten class has been studying fabric in Science - with the unit culminating in a class quilt. Each child (and teacher) brought in an old T-Shirt from home and decorated a white quilt square. I get to put them together into a quilt that will travel home with each kid for a night or two and be journaled about. I love the meaning behind the fabric passing through my hands and under my iron right now.
The quilt is bigger than I have done before and has me motivated to do more after this. Especially since my scrap pile is about three feet high. The T-Shirts weren't as difficult to stitch as I thought they would be, thanks to Johanna at Cloth and Bobbin who reminded me that they each needed to be interfaced! Exactly why I prefer to buy my fabric at a local shop...
So the quilt has been pieced and embroidered. Next up, I need to make the back and then sandwich the quilt. The quilting I have planned is a little non-traditional, I think. Each of the white squares the kids used actually came from a kit made for tying the squares together instead of stitching them. This means that all four corners of each square have holes cut into them. My plan is to applique little squares over each intersection, quilting the quilt and covering the holes at the same time. Let's hope the quilt will all fit through my machine!
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