So, the main reason I wanted a sewing machine was to make a quilt. Not just any old quilt, but a t-shirt quilt. I have been collecting t-shirts over the years. All sorts of shirts. I have shirts. From church events, and some from grade school up to college, some from sporting events and some from places I have been. I have big squares, little squares, and even some rectangles.
Tonight I started on this quilt. I cut up all the t-shirts, and hopefully not the duplicates. I'm going to try to start putting it together tonight also, but I don't have a space big enough without the animals being around. My sewing room trash is full, and I have plenty of left over shirt pieces for filler if needed. I have several thoughts on how I am going to do this. One is to put all the big pieces together then add the little and long. One is to start with the little pieces together in the middle and go out from that with everything else. Its probably going to take me a while to do this, and lots of thread. I will be keeping all of you updated as the project progresses and end it with the final look. Let me know if there are any suggestions out there.
I made my very own Patchwork Cloak. This is my Halloween Costume this
year. Sorry, Pics aren't the best. This took me a week to sew it all
together. Took me about a month to cut all the squares. I did the dogs
costume about a month or two ago. That one only took me a day to cut
and sew. I still have to make my husbands cape. We are modern day
Gleemen. If you don't know what a Gleeeman is read the Wheel of Time
series by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson. My husband read the
series and got the idea. I made my cloak for under 30 bucks. You can
buy similar coats for any amount....the most expensive I have found was
in the $500 range.....I have not found one under $75. This was made
with absolutely no pattern. I took my measurements....even those were
used loosely. I kept having to add and subtract squares as I was
sewing. For the sleeves I had to add a whole section to each to get
the shape I wanted. I also used an old sweatshirt to mark the size of
the sleeve whole I needed. It was a little big so I took in the
shoulders a tiny bit to compensate. It was fairly easy to make. Once
all the squares were sewn together it took maybe 2.5 days to sew it all
together. It was fun and easy. I lined the whole thing with plain
black cotton fabric. I can't wait to finish Lee's and post pictures of
all of us in our costumes. 
