Life IS Good

Life is Good t shirts were a staple in my wardrobe.  They were a favorite find while traveling.  The perfect gift for my family to give.  So colorful and optimistic.  When it was time to retire them from my closet, I could not part with them, sew…

They were all cut up and stabilized and recut to the same size.  Then to find the right framing fabrics.  My top choices were a Cherrywood Citrus Splash pack or a Tango Print Rainbow Batik pack.  Sew much fun color!Mind you I cut these up and did all this prep work in 2015.  I had to decide how wide to make the borders, how could I get the biggest quilt possible with 7″ squares?

Wide or Thin?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Decision made, a sewed a few and put them in a cute pizza box and put them on my to finish list for three years.  Yikes.

This winter I began in earnest to get this quilt finished!  Our quilt retreat in January helped.

Finally it was time to arrange the blocks and sew them up.  And I began dreaming of Jake’s face for the quilting design.  This top hung in my basement for several months as I navigated copyright infringement and designer requests.  I am happy to say the time spent was worth it to do it right!

This is a favorite quilt and will be for a long time.  Sew many memories in these happy shirts.

Thank you to Life is Good Powered by Optimism, and Kim Diamond at Sweet Dreams Quilt Studio.

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