V's Version

That's what I want to know. I am getting ready to work on a T-shirt quilt (over 200 feminist T-Shirts! A collection started in the 70s!!) and I am doing some research. I usually research the heck out my quilts - to inform myself, learn about new cultures, give myself springboards for my own creativity. I am inspired by and influenced by many artists although my style is definitely my own.

Having never made an all-out T Shirt quilt - I wanted to see what other people were doing so I looked. Bad move - very depressing. In looking at what is available, there are a plethora of sites that offer "one-of-a-kind" quilts. And they ALL look like these quilts. Every one of them. Yeah - OK - so some of them are blue and some of them have "cornerstones" and some of them are exclusively Newport Folk Festival T Shirts. But they are all square and, frankly, I am bored.

What is the point of one-of-a-kind if it looks like 1000 other one-of-a-kind?

Obviously, ease is a factor. It would be easy to cut everything into a square. I have done this myself when in a rush - or working with 30 kids under the age of 10. Sometimes squares are necessary. But I really hope that when I get the box(es) of T Shirts in the mail, that I will be inspired to make something truly one of a kind. I am not satisfied to live inside the box.

Labels: T Shirt Quilt Different NOT SQUARE one of a kind memory scissors art outside of the box lesbian