Sunday, July 6, 2014

Braniff Tribute

Every year, Jimmy and I attend the annual Memorial Day Braniff Reunion Fly-In in May and the Business Luncheon in October.  I've been thinking for a couple of years about making a T-Shirt Quilt from Jimmy's accumulated Braniff T-Shirts,, but he wears them all the time, so .... have not done that yet.  However, it occurred to me that I should make one for the Braniff section of the Aviation Museum at Dallas Love Field.  I approached the woman who always comes to the Memorial Day function with Braniff memoriabilia about purchasing enough T-shirts at a discounted priced in exchange for mention of her business in the labeling on the finished quilt.  She was very gracious and accommodating.  So, I purchased one of every type of T-shirt she had available; that was a month ago.   Today was a most productive day on that project.  I managed to cut away all the logos, add stabilizer and then square them up.  The first layout is currently on the design wall.........

 
followed by color inserts and sashing.......
 
and the finished product:
 
added a label.......
 
 
 
 

and with the "leftovers", I made a second.........

 
 

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