T-Shirt Quilt

Before Griffin started making collage bookmarks, he used a similar technique to create quilt squares out of old T-shirts. He worked on this project when he was 7 years old. First, he cut the fabric into squares with a rotary cutter. Then, he sent each square through the sewing machine at least once. He tried all the different stitch patterns that the machine would do. He added yarn, sequins, and scraps of other fabrics to each square. He even made one square into a pocket. Then he helped Mom arrange the squares into a pattern. Mom cut an old sheet into 12 large blocks and then sewed about 16 of the t-shirt pieces onto each one. Then the 12  blocks were sewed together and Mom added batting and a fuzzy blue fabric for the back.