Crooked Nickel Quilt Designs

 I am in the midst of 

helping out for a few days

 in a Vendor Booth

with

Crooked Nickel Quilts

during the

Arizona Quilt Craft & Sewing Festival

 Being relatively new to Arizona, 

this is my first time to this Festival

which is in it's 19th year.

This is a well run event that fills several buildings,

and we've had large crowds in attendance each day.

 I've had a delightful time getting to know

Lisa Maki

owner and creator of

Crooked Nickel Quilt Designs

 Lisa asked me if I would be a 

Worker Bee

and help demonstrate how to make a 

T-Shirt Quilt

using her Crooked Nickel technique.

 This really is the most simple, easy way to make a Memory Quilt

with T-Shirts.

Even for beginning sewers, this quilt top is so stress free,

you don't even have to use pins in the construction.

Lisa has developed a system 

using a lightweight Pellon

with a fusible grid as the base foundation.

Her motto is

Fast 

Simple 

Perfect 

If you would like to see a video 

that shows Lisa making her T-Shirt Quilt

you can view it on the 

Crooked Nickel web site 

HERE

There are so many possibilities for 

preserving memories with a 

T-Shirt quilt:

Many of us have saved our T-Shirts over the years

from favorite schools, sports teams,

or travels.

I had one woman who came to the booth 

so relieved to see an easy way to preserve her 

father's T-Shirts

that would not take a lot of time to construct.

She said we were an answer to her prayers.

Her father had recently passed away, and she wanted to 

make a quilt for each of his grandchildren 

using his shirts.

Quilting provides comfort in so many ways :)