What Music Moves You ?

It's been a couple weeks since Lemmy passed away but I stumbled across this the other day and thought it was too funny not to share ...

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Here's a good example of my musical history  


I have only worn T-shirts for as long as I can remember ... they're comfy and I don't like collars

90% of the shirts I wear are band related - I have always felt that , if I am going to be "free advertisement" , I will only promote bands that I really like  

I started saving my T-shirts in High School and over the years I built up quite the collection (at one point I had 4 trashbags full ) . I generally wear the shirts until they start to get so worn out that I have to "retire" them and then add to the collection bag . I never knew what exactly I was saving them for but a few years ago I finally came up with a plan

I started by cutting the shirts apart and only saved the good (and salvageable) designs / printing that I wanted to use ...

I bought some fabric that had iron on sticky stuff on one side - then carefully laid out the designs with the shirt pieces and then used a hot iron to attach them in place . In places where pieces overlapped I would have to use fabric glue .

Once everything was attached to each panel of iron on fabric , my wife would use her sewing machine to go around each and every piece separately to make sure they would all stay in place permanently . She had just gotten the sewing machine so her skills were a little rough but I liked the unevenness for this particular project

I wanted to try and represent a musical history of all the bands that I have loved over the years but didn't have T-Shirts for everyone . So I started buying patches for the missing artists and Julie sewed them on as well .

The plan is to eventually attach all the separate panels together and make a large quilt or tapestry but right now each panel is about 20 inches tall and 48 inches wide . It's been a couple years since we worked on it but I have enough retired T-Shirts to do another panel now (mostly Buckethead   ) so we will be digging it out again to do some more work  


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PANEL # 1

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PANEL # 2

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I'm not real sure how "metal" my quilting project is but the wife says when you use random cut pieces like our project , instead of perfect cut squares , it is called a "Crazy Quilt" ...  so if its "Crazy" hopefully that helps it sound more METAL