SO! the adventure truly begins. I began cutting up t-shirts yesterday for Ty's Christmas present. I'm hoping it will be ginormous and fantastical. The only foreseeable problem is the fact that most of his shirts are the same color, and when cut into strips, it's going to take some very creative knitting to make them identifiable. So far I've cut up three of his shirts and one of mine. I'm thinking it's going to be 9 squares across, and 15 squares long. Each square is about 5"...so that makes a good size quilt. Shit. I just did the math and realized that takes 135 squares. at 2 squares per shirt...I'd need 68 shirts. I guess it's not going to be that big. Damn. Well I've got about 20 shirts, 40 squares, 8x5...at 5" each (can you tell that I am not a math major, sitting here and talking it out to myself) 25" wide and 40" long equals 2 feet wide and 3.5 feet long. That's a pretty weak quilt. Shit. Looks like I'm going to have to raid his shirts for this thing! At least I know I've got another 5 or so that I can donate, which gets me up to 50" long.
List: Things I Should Have Thought About Before I Started Ty's Quilt.
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