Basketball Season

This was my between the holidays diversion project.  I can't decide if I'm done with it or if it needs another border.  Either way, it will be a small quilt, small lap quilt size or, if I don't add any more borders, a baby boy quilt.

Made from thrifted men's shirts, and I forgot how many of those I still had until I went digging through the stash.  Yikes!

I used this tutorial from Life is a Stitch.  I did remove the shirt pockets if they were in the way of the strip I needed, but in the case of that basketball-orange shirt (which I love), there was a machine-embroidered logo at the pocket corner, so I left that.  I think it adds a little character.

Some in-progress pics:

I'm thinking of calling this "Basketball Season."

Were I to make it again, I'd shoot for at least 8-inch finished blocks instead of 6-inch, but it all depends on how much fabric you have in your shirt.  Some of these were short-sleeved shirts, and I had also used parts of them in earlier projects so I had to make do with what remained.  Fun pattern though!

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My sister shared her holiday pictures with me yesterday.  Here I am cutting the lasagnas on Christmas Day.

She also gave me, for Christmas, a framed photo that she had taken this fall near her house.  Aren't those poplars gorgeous against the autumn sunset?