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Here's "concept art" of my project. Its for a quilt I'm making for my boyfriend made out of Kittie band shirts. Thought it'd be the perfect Christmas present since we both love Kittie (both our favorite band) and we met on their chat forums. Reason for two pics: Can't completely decide on a border color (though I'm leaning towards the grey). Reason for blurred sections: a really bad word on one shirt and a couple were a little too graphic or vulgar for posting. ...Kittie's a heavy metal band and graphic shirts are commonplace in the world of metal. I'm excited because I start buying shirts tomorrow!

I would go for the red, as it livens up the darkness of the shirts.

Good luck with it, its a novel idea and should work well for you.

I've taken a break from quilts to get on with my stitching - my first love - but will need to get on with 2 for grand children's birthdays early January. I have done 1 quilt top for 7
yr old GD using Flower Fairy panels and sashing in pinky mauves.

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Good idea! My first thought was that it would look pretty cool with a checkerboard border, like on a pair of Vans, but where would you find that?! I vote the red.

Mmm... I like the red...but I'm leaning towards the grey too because it somehow feels right for heavy metal music.

I vote for the red. I like the vibrant look of the red border.

annkor26 wrote:Good idea! My first thought was that it would look pretty cool with a checkerboard border, like on a pair of Vans, but where would you find that?! I vote the red.

They have checkered or diamond checker fabrics out there so it'd be easy to recreate the VANS look. Ah...you just reminded me of my never ending quest to find a pair of pink and black checkered VANS (the drummer of Kittie has a pair and I fell in love with them...not because she wears them). Anyways, I didn't want to go for fancy borders. I thought that would be too much of a distraction from the shirts and I have plenty of projects that are meant to be big and dazzling and impressive. Kind of need to get back to basics and simplify on this one.

Cecilia wrote:Mmm... I like the red...but I'm leaning towards the grey too because it somehow feels right for heavy metal music.

I've been leaning towards the grey as of late and I think you just explained why. It makes sense! And sometimes I look at the red and it makes the red from some of the other shirts pop out way too much. Like "RAWR! I'M HERE!"

With what you have put up I do prefer the grey as the primary color for the border but if you wanted to add in some red, since some of the T's have the red incorporated, you could make the corners in between each of the squares a red block. That would still keep the heavey metal feel to it but also give a bit of relief from just the one color.

I agree with Rose, grey borders with red corners, the best of both worlds.

I love quilting and at the moment I am working on a couple of large bags, a lap quilt for my eldest DGD a single bed quilt for youngest DGD and a double bed quilt for DGS also some place mats and cushion covers

Flying_V_Goddess wrote:I think I'm gonna have to buy a shirt for myself to rid myself of the guilt.

Sound reasoning

Mabel Figworthy wrote:

Flying_V_Goddess wrote:I think I'm gonna have to buy a shirt for myself to rid myself of the guilt.

Sound reasoning

I don't know which one I'll get yet. Thinking of either the one with the band photo or the one with the kitty skull on the front and the kitty skeleton surrounded by roses on the back. Maybe both!

Flying_V_Goddess wrote:the kitty skull on the front and the kitty skeleton surrounded by roses on the back.

sounds, er, charming

What an interesting project, wait with anticipation for an update.

I quilted for several years, but recently gave away most of my stash. I currently have an over sized queen size quilt that I need to finish quilting. It is the first quilt I made, and the largest, but I've lost interest in quilting. I'm quilting it on my domestic sewing machine and it is a bear to wrestle with. I'm more than ready to get back to stitching!

curly sue wrote:I quilted for several years, but recently gave away most of my stash. I currently have an over sized queen size quilt that I need to finish quilting. It is the first quilt I made, and the largest, but I've lost interest in quilting. I'm quilting it on my domestic sewing machine and it is a bear to wrestle with. I'm more than ready to get back to stitching!

Ah, been there, done that. The first quilt I made was tied, but the second one (which is the largest I've completed) was quilted. The top was made out of denim and the back was flannel. This made it both heavy and hot to work with. Didn't help that it was the middle of May and there was no air conditioning. Most of the quilting occured at night with the window wide open, but I would quilt during the later part of the afternoon if there wasn't anything else to do and some of those days it was hot and humid. Sometimes the nights were just as bad if there wasn't a breeze going through. It was just a quilt top made out of 4" denim squares and I was bascially quilting an X through every other one so it was nothing too fancy, but it was HARD! A 60x80" quilt on a domestic Singer machine was a challenge.

I have been very seriously thinking of cutting my quilt in half to finish the quilting and making it into two quilts. It is a scrap quilt and the only thing it would affect is the border. I've been working on it so long I don't think it would bother me to do that.

I saved jeans for a while for a quilt. One day I moved the pile and realized how heavy it was. It was hard to throw all those old jeans away!

This is a really awesome idea! I'm not much into quilting, but would you mind if I used this concept for both of my favourite bands? *ie: Slipknot and Satyricon*?