City Craft Inspirations - Chevron Quilt

I was in Dallas a few weeks ago and a sweet friend told me to check out City Craft. Boy am I glad I did! It's everything a modern quilting/fabric store should be but Shreveport will probably never have.  Their fabrics are fun, their books are interesting, and they give you rewards - I'm halfway to a $10 gift card (sorry husband!).  I was struck with a quilt they had hanging in the window and decided I wanted to make one!

Lucky for me, they had these Moda pre-cut fabrics, which saves so much time!  So I bought some white fabric and cut it and made a chevron pattern!  This is the pattern I went by (look for the link that says "click here for a full tutorial").

This is while I was still piecing the face of the quilt together.

The face is finally finished!  I am going to Dallas at the end of the month, and I will pick a fabric for the back!  What color do y'all think?  I was thinking green!

They have a fun website, and you can shop online too!  http://citycraftonline.com/

I will post the finished product soon!

Custom T-Shirt Quilt

So my husband had tons of t-shirts just collecting dust (well, some of them he wore, whoops!) and so I decided to make him a t-shirt quilt!  I still wanted it to be custom and exciting, so I spent months making this...

He was a Baylor grad, so I wanted to commemorate that, but he's an LSU football fan, so I made a little purple and gold nine square!

My 1.5 year old can attest to the quilt's comforts...

This was the quilt in the beginning.  I worked hard to make sure the t-shirts were spaced out appropriately according to their color.  I'd already started "building out" some of the t-shirts w/ fabric.

Not sure why exactly, but this was my favorite square.  I guess it's all the bright colors (I do not have simple or subdued taste).  Will's brother went to the World Cup in South Africa and brought back a t-shirt for us.  My in-laws also have family that lives there, so for those reasons it made the quilt - also it was too small for Will and too big for me, so perfect!