See if you can follow this...one of my friends talked with someone who knew someone who knew someone who had passed away from mad cow disease, leaving a wife and four kids. One of the kids told someone that she wanted a quilt from her dad's shirts, and that someone told someone who told someone who told my friend who then told my quilt group about it - whew! And so, armed with 15 men's dress shirts from the dad who passed away, our quilt group made 5 quilts - one for each child and one for the mom - we only had 3 shirts a piece to work with and this is what I came up with:
This quilt is for the mom, it measures 54 x 64 and was made from two plaid shirts and one solid cream-colored shirt, all of the shirts were 100% cotton. It's the perfect lap-size quilt...if you ask me.
It's very hard to see, but quilted into the border of the quilt is the phrase, "Families are Forever." I personally believe that and I hope the mom does, too. I looked everywhere for a blue-ticking fabric but couldn't find any and I didn't have time to order on-line so I used a polyester-cotton blend fabric for the inner border and the binding - it's very soft and silky feeling - and I like how it looks.
The quilt was backed with a white-on-white striped fabric - nothing exciting. I used part of a shirt sleeve to make the label, which has to be unbuttoned to see:
(Please ignore the creepy hand...last week I caught my grandson Max staring at my hands and he poked the vein in the back of my hand and told me it was a blood artery and so I looked at the back of his little hand and asked him where his artery was and he said he didn't have one, "That's because I'm new." Baddabing!)
I'll be taking the quilt to my quilt group meeting this Friday and passing it off to the friend for her to give to someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows the family of the man that passed away. I'm sorry for your loss Mrs. Larson, I hope this quilt brings you some measure of comfort.
