T-shirt quilt progress and Sunday company

I made good progress on the borders for the t-shirt quilt. I will write a seperate post on how I made the piano key border sections. The sections are not sewn together. I need to make the bottom and top borders first. It all depends on how it works out whether the top and bottom borders go all the way across including the side borders.

On Sunday my quilting friend, Peg, came up for the day. We both had red projects we were working on. Her's was a tree skirt that she was making as a barter for getting her toilet fixed and I worked on the banners for my nephew.

Peg had never made ruffles or a tree skirt so I gave her directions. Then I found some bias tape that I had squirreled away in a box where sewing supplies go to die. LOL!!  She was going to try and hem the circle. I said no, no, no.  Bias tape is the answer!  While Peg worked on the skirt I worked on the banners. It was great to have a second pair of hands to fold those 31' banners up! I got the last 5 done.

Here is the pile of boxes and fabric she brought me. There is some quilting cotton along with lots of fabric for tote bags. Peg had collected the fabric from several people, and she was glad to get it out of her studio. So now I will have to get to making tote bags for the show Nov. 25th.  I made cornbread and chili for lunch and we had a great day.