Chandelier 2 : Dad’s Shirts Memory Quilt Top Finish

Hi, I am happy to share another completed memory quilt top made from our Dad’s plaid shirts. This one is made from the Chandeliers 2 pattern by Lella Boutique. It will be given to our grandson.

I was able to pull strips from 20 different plaid shirts and added 5 duplicate striped blocks. Charcoal gray solid as the chain pieces with navy solid setting triangles.

This is Lella Boutique’s photo of the pattern cover art from Instagram. I really like the soft blue setting triangles.

Here are all my fabrics cut with two of the first blocks pieced. They assemble quite quickly.

Here are all the pieced blocks before laying out the setting triangles. Apparently Smokey needs to be in the photo as well. I was up on a stool attempting to take photos not paying attention and there he was. I had someone ask how he did this without messing up the blocks? I guess he was light on his feet until he got up to move and then he just moved that block he was sitting on.

Here is the planned layout with the setting triangles. I am really enjoying our new floors.

Here is the completed Chandeliers 2 flimsy. I really enjoyed making it and it is a new favorite. Maybe my grandson will be willing to share his quilt with Grandma??

This makes 18 memory quilts that I have blogged about. I do have 19 tops made but apparently have missed photos of the extra one.  I need to make one more top for our daughter. I had no idea that I would be able to create 20 quilts from a stack of 30 shirts and they all range from twin to queen size. One is a king size that I used one shirt in entirety in and one was the quilt made from scraps using improv piecing that includes all the name brand patches from Dad’s shirts.

I started making the first memory quilt in November 2016 and I finished piecing the Chandeliers 2 quilt in July 2018. I made the first 15 in 18 months. One of the big accomplishments was creating the three Swoon memory quilt tops along  with a Swoon made from Denyse Schmidt’s Hope Valley fabric line while doing the Swoon Quiltalong on Instagram. It got the designer Camille Roskelly’s attention that I made 4 Swoons in 2.5 months. (all need quilting yet…) Forgot to add in the middle of these in October 2017, my Mom’s sewing machine that I inherited from her when she passed away in 2013 literally went up in smoke. It was getting  loud while binding the Woodruff memory quilt and when I was down to the last foot of stitching, there was a loud pop and lots of gray smoke. (I made 45 quilts in the last  4 years with that machine.)

Thank you to everyone who has continued to follow my memory quilt project progress.

Happy Sewing,

Shelley