Project #1-- T-Shirt Quilt

Ok, I've decided.  I've been planning to make a t-shirt quilt for about 5-ish years.  I've got a huge collection of old shirts of Tom's and mine.  I've even got a few dozen squares cut out.  As I've been looking online at pictures of t-shirt quilts, though, they all seem to feature the picture on the front of the t-shirt, something like this:

However, in my preparations, I got rid of the pictures and cut my squares out of the soft t-shirt backs.  The pictures were all weird and crinkly.  Some had chipping paint.  It didn't seem like the makings of a soft, patchwork quilt made from a collection of finely aged jersey cotton.  What I have to work with is a bunch of soft t-shirt cotton squares in a variety of my favorite t-shirt colors: grey, shades of blue and green, and a little pink.

I also don't want to make a plain block quilt.  I didn't find too many "outside the box" t-shirt quilts online.  These (below) were the best I saw.  I especially like the last one and am hoping to pull off something that cool (without the elaborate quilting over the top.)

I'd like a quilt that incorporates whole 12x12 (I think-- I haven't gotten them out of the closet yet) squares in with a variety of squares made up of many colors in some sort of arrangement.  I'll send you some of the squares I've got and you can cut them up and rearrange them in the patterns of your choice-- kind of like the one above.  The only real rule is that you cut straight lines with your squares and that all the squares end up the same size.  I'll include the sizes in with the squares when I send them out to you on Tuesday.  Tuesday feels like a good deadline since there's no way it'll be done by tomorrow morning and the post office will be closed until Tuesday for the 4th.  I'm hoping you wouldn't mind making a few, maybe 3 or 4 squares?

Anyway, I hope you like the idea and I'll post pictures of the materials and hopefully a couple of sample squares tomorrow.