The grief quilts I'm going to show you this time were all made in November and December of 2009 for a lady from St. Louis whose husband died. They were made from his t-shirts and dress shirts. She sorted out which shirts she wanted in each quilt. Two were for her daughters and one for her mother-in-law. She chose the shirts for each one according to the events and who was with him at those events. Shirts that could go in all three were put in another bag. This first quilt was made for her mother-in-law.
The last two quilts were made for her daughters. All the quilts are hand tied per her request and both the fronts and the backs were quilted from the shirts. Fortunately, there were a lot of shirts to work with.
This last quilt was made with the stack and whack technique except that I kept the templates the same for each block rather than varying it as some do. The t-shirt parts were then appliqued on top of the quilt.
The grief quilts I'm going to show you this time were all made in November and December of 2009 for a lady from St. Louis whose husband died. They were made from his t-shirts and dress shirts. She sorted out which shirts she wanted in each quilt. Two were for her daughters and one for her mother-in-law. She chose the shirts for each one according to the events and who was with him at those events. Shirts that could go in all three were put in another bag. This first quilt was made for her mother-in-law.
The last two quilts were made for her daughters. All the quilts are hand tied per her request and both the fronts and the backs were quilted from the shirts. Fortunately, there were a lot of shirts to work with.
This last quilt was made with the stack and whack technique except that I kept the templates the same for each block rather than varying it as some do. The t-shirt parts were then appliqued on top of the quilt.
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