Blogger's Quilt Fest

Amy, at Amy's Creative Side, is hosting an online quilt festival.

Quilters submit quilts they have made - virtually!

I want to enter this Festival with my Gymnastics T-Shirt Quilt.

This quilt is a collection of T-Shirts from my second daughter 

- who was a gymnast until her teen years.  

She grew tall and participating in gymnastics began to stress and injure her back.

Then she became a coach.

Notice the black patch below: 

Notice, also, that I used some of her leotards in the quilt.
With a little bit of hand-quilting...



I machine quilted around all the lattice work.
Then did some custom quilting on each quilt.
With my walking foot.

My daughter is quite fond of rainbows -
and you can see the rainbow-dot fabric I used between the shirts.

The t-shirt above is one she wore at least once a week for a year or two!!  

From her background in gymnastics, my daughter went into spring-board diving,  Even diving in college.  I had this quilt top finished by the 2008 Summer Olympics.  By then she could not longer do gymnastics.  She also soon had to quit diving because she had acquired a chronic illness.  She did not even enjoy watching the Olympics that year. I put the quilt top away for awhile.

This year she asked me when I might finish her quilt - and I pulled it out of the closet and finished it!  

She had attended a gymnastics camp hosted by the legendary coach Bela Karolyi.  He autographed her t-shirt and it holds a position on the quilt.

The back of the quilt is this lovely black background with rainbow dot all-over print.

 She continues to struggle with her chronic illness - so Karolyi's catch-phrase

"YOO KAN DOO EAT"  

(With a thick Romanian/Hungarian accent)

graces the back of her quilt.

CathyH