Cleaning house…making quilts…
My mother-in-law made the neatest quilt for my husband when he was in High School. It was swatches of his T-shirts and jeans sewed together in a simple block pattern.
I have since saved many of my favorites of my kids’ clothes when I go through their closets with ebay on my mind! The things that I remember them wearing all the time….a certain striped shirt with a little bicycle logo on it or a flowered shirt that says sweetheart or my favorite pair of fuzzy jammies.
Someday I will, too, cut and sew these into my own crude fashioned quilt. My son loves sleeping with “daddy’s jean quilt” and it sparks some conversations as well.
Think about the following conversation when you are ready to sell your daughter’s best toddler dress - THINK QUILT!
“Daddy, why does this T-shirt say SPIDER?”
“Well, bud, when Daddy played little league they called me Spider because they said I could catch anything and that the area around me was like a web.”
“Cool, Dad. You must have been good! What is this dark stain on it from?”
“Hmmmm. That’s the time there was a hole in Daddy’s web and the ball caught ME…right in the nose!”
“Ouch!”
“Yep. Ouch!”
November 27th, 2007 at 10:52 am
Each of my children have a quilt made for them by my Mom. They also have a Christmas stocking made for them by their Great-Grandmother.