Clemson Tiger Rag Quilt

     Another Project Quilting in the books!! This time I was really glad the theme was something I loved, “Team Colors”.  If you have been around my family anytime, you know that we are a Clemson family.  Win or loose,  Good times or bad, we will cheer them on. 

  This time I really think I overdid it and should have chosen a simpler quilt.  Actually, I should say smaller.  This was actually simple, but the 689 pieces took forever to sew and square up.  But of course that’s not who I am.  I usually don’t take the easy road.

  My father in laws 73rd birthday is next week.  So I knew that this would be the perfect gift.  He’s over 6 foot tall, so it needed to be long.  

     I went into my bin of shirts that I was saving to make my boys a T-shirt quilt.  Instead of pulling out a shirt, I found a few Tiger Rags from games we went to with my father in-law.  My husband chose the rag because of what it said.  Then it was on to picking a design. 

I found a couple of designs off of Pinterest. In my usual fashion, I started to design my own quilt combining the quilts. I started with making 8.5 inch blocks of 7 different fabrics and a white background.  

     Using a quick half square triangle method, each 8.5 inch square set became 8 half square triangles.  I then square them up to 3.75 inches.  This made 3.25 inch finished blocks.  I cut the Tiger Rag to fit the center. 

     Then I went to playing with the design. I liked how these borders laid out, so I went with the repeat in rows.  At the corners I ran out of purple blocks so I compromised. But I love how the quilt turned out. 

To finish it off, I free motion quilted ribbon candy in the long white rows. Then figure eights in the white triangles and meandered in the center. The backing is a tone on tone purple.

I kinda love this quilt!!