Nick wasn’t a fancy kind of guy, his style was t-shirts and sweats. Because of his low key style I didn’t have many shirts to choose from when I decided to make a memory quilt. I found a picture of us at my nephew’s wedding. In the picture Nick wore the one button down shirt […]
Memory Quilts
Breaking Down – The Shirt, That Is
Thanks for joining me as we make a beautiful memory quilt from a loved one’s clothing. We’ll start at the beginning and take it one step at a time. Let’s not rush the process as we connect with our special person and recall our time with them. If you’ve never made a quilt before check […]
Once Upon A Shirt – How to make a Quilt From Beloved Clothing
A year passes, then another, and still the shirts hang, untouched in the closet. I’m torn, on the one hand knowing he will never wear them again, on the other unable to part with these last tangible pieces of my son’s life. After losing someone significant in our lives it’s important to reconstruct that continuing […]
How to remember a loved one with the perfect memory quilt
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” and so a quilt begins with a single scrap of fabric. I embrace quilting as a metaphor for life, the pieces of fabric you accumulate along the way can sit untouched in a plastic bin in the darkest recesses of a closet like memories […]