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[myurbandream]

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.

Comments

[catc10.livejournal.com]

AHHHHhhhaaaaa!
I wanted to visit you before school started...Uh...I'm free weekends? Is there a good time for me to haul ass over there and sleep on your couch a few days? In early August?
(I saw you not that long ago, but I never see you enough!)
ME

[jen-chan13.livejournal.com]

a weekend in early august sounds excellent!!! COME TO ME!!! *wiggles fingers at your brain*

we also typically have weekends free, but not this coming weekend - so early august should work fine. soo.... either the 6th-8th or 13th-15th?

it'll be so great to see you!!! *huggles you* (and bring caitlin too??)

[catc10.livejournal.com]

*waggles fingers back*
The thirteenth/fifteenth sounds amazing! It would be the weekend after I get out of school for summer! (and that sounds so amazing you have no idea...actually, you might. I'm getting about the same amount of sleep YOU did in your first semester!)
I'll check with Cait (and Sav, maybe) to see if they'll come with me!
ME

[catc10.livejournal.com]

So I just found out that my mom is getting off work from the thirteenth through the fifteenth. Depending on if my parents want to go somewhere (mom does, dad still seems iffy), I might not be able to visit those days. Seeing as how the sixth through the eighth is pretty close, then will probably be a bad time to visit. Is it totally impossible to do a mid-week visit between the sixteen and the twentieth, or can we put that on the table for the chance?
ME

[jen-chan13.livejournal.com]

hey, got your message.

neither of us have any particular problems with you (and others) coming on the weekend of the 6th-8th. however, jim finishes his manager's training on the 18th, so from the 16th-18th he'll be doing crazy studying for all his tests and it's a bad time for him. also that's right before classes start, so i'll be running around getting things done for school and work. so i think that week is out, unfortunately.

if you can't make it any sooner than then... well, we'll work something out. is sav able to come? i've mentioned visiting to caitlin and she just needs to get time off from work, i think... let me know!

<3