I stalled out on the T-Shirt Quilt because of math...addition and multiplication to be exact.  When figuring out how much interfacing I needed to back the t-shirt blocks, I calculated three yards.  Confident me then purchased three yards at Joann's and began cutting - did not take long for me to realized that I did not have enough.  (Six was the required amount.)

I was vexed.   (Vexed is a favorite word of mine which I hardly ever use out loud - who remembers Joaquin Phoenix as Commodus in Gladiator (2000) say "It vexes me.  I am terribly vexed"?)

I finally purchased the remainder three yards this past week and got the wheels going again on this project.  All t-shirt blocks are now backed with interfacing and I purchased the correct amount of Kona Light Grey to fill in the checkerboard pattern I'm going for.

T-Shirt Quilt - not sewed up yet

Now awaiting my cousin to choose a backing fabric.  Because her son attended East Carolina University I suggested this: