I had been thinking about making a T-Shirt quilt for a long time. I can't remember where I first even heard about one. In the summer I enter 5k races and almost everyone you get a T-Shirt with registration. I also have a bunch of Hard Rock Cafe shirts. Last March my mom & I took a class at Country Stitches. They should have put in the class sheet that you get before hand to cut the shirts ahead of time, because the majority of the 4 hour class was just cutting the shirts and ironing on the interfacing. Then probably about 6 months later we took another class after all our T-Shirts were cut & ironed and learned how to sew them together in the columns. Thats mine above. I changed my mind on 3 shirts so I need more interfacing for those. They are having another class in April that I'm going to try to get to so I'll know what to do next.

In the meantime, Jodie wants one now. She brought over 39 T-Shirts! Saturday I cut them. I ironed 9 of them and already ran out of interfacing because her designs are HUGE!

I'm helping my mom with hers too. I have 3 of her columns done and need interfacing to finish up some more.

I'm thinking that my quilt is going to be front and back T-Shirts instead of a solid color on the back. I'll get at least 5-8 shirts this season in the 5k's plus I have some golf shirts and a sweatshirt I forgot about.

I think that when I go to JoAnn Fabrics today I'll see if they have a new bolt of interfacing and I'll just buy that. I'm sure we'll use it all.

Look what came in the mail yesterday!!!

Another bento. This one has a clear lid with a shallow spot to hold a pair of short chopsticks. (now I need to learn to use them) A nifty bag that I can put either bento in to carry. A piece of elastic. And three containers. The littlest one I don't know what would go in there. Maybe pills, but not much else.

Still waiting for the Hello Kitties. This auction ended on November 5th and I got it yesterday, so the Kitties should be any day now. This one was also from Japan.

I'm on vacation and so far have only gone to Meijer and that was on Sunday. I was going to take Jade to the park yesterday and today but ended up not. Sunday and yesterday I worked on my T-shirt quilt. Sunday night I realized I had measured wrong so I had to tear out and redo all the borders that I had put on to build up the blocks that were smaller than 16" x 16". So I just ended up cutting 2" borders and sewing those all on. Today I cut them all down to 16" x 16". Ma brought over her material and T-shirts and I said I would do hers. All of her shirts are the same size so it'll be easier.

Jodie's off the rest of the week so I won't have Jade.

I still want to do some scrapbooking, I still have runs from last year to do, ALL of this year. Christmas of last year and TONS of Jade.

I also need to paint the door to the porch and clean up the entry way and clean out the utensil drawer and find a spot for my bento stuff.