My friend Ramona Graham has a very athletic and talented grandson. I was looking for another project to wile away the hours and we came up with the idea of a T-shirt quilt from Chase’s athletic shirts and jerseys. Also a few little boy shirts his mother cherished.

Well, Chase has been on so many teams and there were so many shirts that this ended up as a double sided quilt. Since Chase plays basketball at NCSU there were no questions about the colors.

I learned three things making this quilt.

1 – Karate belts are hard and not very flexible. If you want them in a quilt, you have to deconstruct them completely, remove the hard interfacing, replace with a bit of soft batting and re-stitch.

2 – First time using mesh jerseys in a quilt. I had to learn a way to back them so the batting wouldn’t escape through the holes. This site was a great help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqRtaibpZgg

3 – Licensed fabric printed with NCSU logos is no longer available. Apparently too many folks were making items for sale out of this fabric without any agreement with NCSU.