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quilting update!!!

yesterday i went over to lauren's apartment and officially started on my tshirt quilt, and i continued today. i'm now at the point of no return: i cut things up. *le gasp*

so here's the plan right now:

1 - pick out all the tshirts that i'll need, with the correct number of designs given the size of quilt and size of tile that i want to use. done
2 - cut the tshirts into halves and remove the sleeves. done (note: most tshirts don't have seams on the side, so you just have to lay them flat and guess.)
3 - make a tile frame. done
4 - cut out all the tiles. done
5 - arrange the tiles in whatever design i want to use (i'm probably going to put the oversized ones in the corners, with smaller ones making up the difference of the adjacent tiles). done on july 20
6 - patch any tiles that need patching. done on july 25
7 - sew the tiles together in rows or columns, and then attach them all together. done on august 8
8 - buy (or make from recycled scraps) the material for the batting, backing, and borders (jersey?). done on august 8
8b - assemble the pieces of the layers. done
9* - sew the tshirt layer and stabiliser edges together. done on august 29
10 - tie-stitch the three layers together.
11 - sew on the border.

so despite the fact that i have been very productive in the past few days, i still have a loooooooot to do. and, um, maybe five more weekends to do it in. fml.