A Cozy T-Shirt Blanket (Just in Time for Summer)

Let's just pretend it hasn't been 9 months since my last post.

In the midst of moving across the country, starting a new job, and making new friends, I have also started crafting again. I bought a sewing machine not long after we moved here and have been having a great time making things up as I go along.

My penultimate project (I am so much more excited about my most recent series of projects, I wanted to give myself a warm-up post before I got to those!) was a blanket made out of old t-shirts. I have so many t-shirts, there are plenty left for wearing and lounging even now!
It is 4 t-shirts wide by 5 t-shirts tall.

1. I cut each t-shirt into a 12" square. As you can see, I did a better job at centering some than others.
2. Then, being the OCD person that I am, I spent a long time arranging the shirts so that there weren't too many of the same color concentrated in one area. Even still, I feel like there is too much yellowy-orange in the bottom left corner, and too much green and blue in the middle right. Oh well!
   
3. Then I sewed a bunch of straight lines to make the rows, and a few more straight lines to attach the rows to each other.
4. After making the t-shirt layer, I cut the fleece layer to be about 6" bigger than the t-shirt layer.
   
5. Then I put the t-shirt layer on top of the fleece layer and used embroidery thread to attach the two layers to each other. You can see the little brown threads at all of the "joints (corners) between shirts.
6. After that, I folded the fleece layer over twice (making it a 3" border and hiding the raw edge of the fabric so it doesn't fray) and sewed around all 4 edges.
   

--Top Row: Rochester (college) Homecoming shirt, Faith Heritage (high school) soccer sweatshirt, Sigma Phi pledge shirt (as a member, not as a pledge), Jump Start (college orientation, as a junior.)
--Second Row: Sigma Phi Intramural Shirt, a shirt my roomie (Cortnee) got me at Old Navy that says "Naomi" on it (what are the chances?), my dad's SU hoodie that was passed on to me, homemade tie-dye shirt from the time I played intramurals at ACU
--Third Row: A regular shirt (but the one I was wearing when I met Jamey!), the "M" shirt that I wore as part of a Leap Year party costume (we were the four gospels...kind of), a Theta Chi shirt from college (Theta Chi was a guy's club that had a lot of my friends in it), another RC Homecoming shirt
--Fourth Row: A shirt I got in Israel, the shirt I got the first time I went to WV for Easter with Amy, another Sigma Phi intramural shirt, the shirt I got at a Mae concert the summer after my freshman year at RC
--Last Row: A shirt I got in Australia, my Sigma Phi pledge shirt (the white is not so white...there was a lot of mud during pledge week), the Pricless shirt from Elevate at RC, and another Theta Chi shirt from college

Voila! A super-comfy, me-sized blanket. Just in time for summer...