Neon T-Shirt Quilt

Here’s another T-shirt quilt I finished recently. These are all softball team t-shirts from a recent high school graduate. They are all very neon, too! Although the photos are bright and clear, they don’t exactly show the eye blinding brightness of each shirt.

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The shirts are from softball leagues around northwestern Ohio. It was fun to see familiar towns and “Buckeye” this and that. I am from Ohio and my family still lives there and seeing/working with the shirts was kindof like a piece of home in my sewing room 🙂

I had enough shirts for a nice sized throw quilt. There were a couple blocks leftover, and I made a pillow out of one.

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I had the pillow form and figured it’d be easy to make the pillow cover. Little did I know the measurements I thought I had just right, weren’t. I had to do some googling, but I finally got it to fit nicely.

I used pieces of t-shirt scraps to border the main block and the back of one of the t-shirts for the actual back of the pillow. I figured that would be more comfortable to lay on, rather than the printed side.

Here is a pretty good photo of the whole front. The star fabric I used for the border actually has silver glitter on it. I had been looking for just the right sashing fabric, and when I saw this I knew it was the perfect choice!

I have to admit, when this bright neon quilt was finished, it crossed my mind to keep it for myself hehehe :p