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Old 07-29-2007, 08:02 PM
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I have a friend that lost her 13 yr old daughter when she was killed in a car accident. She saved some of her clothing and asked me to make a quilt for her. I suggested using photos also. The clothing was tee-shirts, pajamas, gym cloths, swimsuit, pants, fleece jacket, baby sweater, socks,etc. It was challenge to say the least--using so many different fabrics and getting a color balance, I used red flannel for the backing. This was a very time consuming but worth the effort.
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Old 07-29-2007, 08:05 PM
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Whoops, I didn't realize the photo was not rotated. Sorry.
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Old 07-29-2007, 08:07 PM
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Whoops again. Sorry this is my first time posting. Here it is the right way.
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Old 07-29-2007, 08:13 PM
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What a wonderful thing for you to do...and it turned out fabulous! Great job and beautiful heart.
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Old 07-30-2007, 04:36 AM
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Its beauitful brought tears to my eyes. I'm sure her mother will treasure you always for the beauitful thing you did.

On a happier not Welcome to the board hope to see more of your work.
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Old 07-30-2007, 05:12 AM
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Thank you to both of you. I'm hoping others will be inspired to attempt this. It was a surprise to be given a laundry basket of "odd" clothes to work with, and took a bit of time to figure out how to incorporate everything.
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Old 07-30-2007, 08:01 AM
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That's a very touching memory quilt, you've done a great job incorporating all those different fabrics into one quilt.
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What a treasure. The family will always think of you and your kindness when they see this lovely quilt. Such a nice thing for you to do. It really looks lovely.
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This is my first time on the quilting post board. Your memory quilt
is beautiful. Even though it was a lot of work but you presevere.

Well done :wink:
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Old 07-30-2007, 10:49 AM
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How thoughtful! This is definitely something the mother will treasure for a lifetime. It turned out very nice. Great Job!
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