One of the goals I had in the past year and a half was to make a t-shirt quilt with all of those pieces of nostalgia that well represent my extracurricular activities in college. I cannot wear them anymore without feeling like an undergraduate poser, cannot wear them to my community gym without a few raised eyebrows, and cannot bring myself to get rid of them.
Since the extent of my skills is darning socks and since I don't have a sewing machine, I decided to have the quilt professionally pieced together. It cost just a little more than the time and materials would have cost if I were to do it myself. Voilà the magnificent 5x6-foot quilt!
To keep with a nautical theme, the backing is the same blue and white stripes on the border. The woman who put it together designed a quilting pattern that incorporates anchors and "WU," for Washington University:
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