I used excel to draw up a basic pattern, and adjusted the measurment to make a full size blanket. This is a DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) blanket for my husbands co-worker , John, who is retiring from the Lenexa Police Department and served as an School Resourse Officer for about 15 years.
First I washed and dried all the fabric then cut to size (I usually leave 1/2 inch for seams, because I'm a novice seamstress.)
I arranged the T-shirts in a color pattern, that I could live with. :)
I sewed the blue stripes to the bottomes of the shirt squares and then sewed them all together.
Not pictured, but I sewed the blue rectangles and yellow squares to make long stripes and pinned and sewed on the outsides and between each T-shirt row.
Once the front panel was together I simply placed the batting and underside fabric together and sewed the edging and sewed invisible (?) stitches thru the entire blanket to bind everything together well.
