The "Dad" quilts are slowly getting completed. I'm working on the bindings now. Because I decided that all of them should be made from 25 9" squares, I had to get creative with the last ones to be pieced. Dad was a little guy, and it was hard to cut enough 9" squares from his shirts that were on the smaller side.
I turned to my "scrappy piecing" and cut pieces to fit into the armhole areas or the sides/bottoms of sleeves. I now had pieces big enough to cut the squares that I needed. I also made some 4-patch squares from smaller shirt pieces and worked those into the quilt tops.
For the quilt backs, I bought light-weight denim that is ~56" wide. The extra width is just enough to use for the binding. The quilts are tied with size 5 pearl cotton and random buttons from Dad's shirts are tied into the knots at the centers of the squares.
The quilts are turning out soft and cuddly...hopefully a reminder to the recipients of the kind of guy Dad was--soft-spoken, accepting and encouraging. He's been gone 2 years and he is still very much missed.
