42 Squares Later

This is just the LAYOUT of where the squares will go -- NOT THE COMPLETED QUILT!

 42 has always been one of my favorite numbers...don't know why really.  However, this quilt turned out to have 42 squares and each one has been embellished to the max -- just look at them!  Some are from T-shirts that are 35 years old, and some are from original colored pencil designs I did about 15 years ago (including four little poems.)  Now, the next step is to find the fabric that will served as the background.  Phil's good eye helped me arranged them -- and I love the important dark ones being in the middle.

Lunel's Historic Quilt

Working in our spacious dedicated art studio.

In January I pulled out almost 30 T-shirts that moved with us to Hawaii.  The T-shirts range from 1980 - 2011 so it really represents a 30-year history of my life. Since our average temperature is 75, it's really too hot to wear them, so I decided to cut (most of*) them up into squares and make a quilt for myself.  (No, I have never made a quilt -- but it is so like me to just jump in and figure it all out as I go.)

Back on February17th, I posted the beginning of the project, but since then I have painted, sewed, embroidered, drawn on, and bejeweled and embellished 36 squares and still have about 8 to complete.

Well of COURSE there would have to be a MOON!

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Above is a picture of me that Walt and Jenny took during their visit last week.  Most of the squares are 8x8" but some I have cut into quarters to create some 4x4" squares.  Photo here shows twelve completed squares (most details you can't see well) -- and one of my favorites enlarged so you can see the detail.  Each one is a miniature work of art and I've had great fun doing all of them.  With the border added, I think it will be about 5x7 feet.

* I only have five T-shirts now, which are nice to wear on chilly mornings and evenings -- "chilly" in Hawaiian means about 65.