Originally Posted by SueDor
Originally Posted by Kooklabell
I love making "scrappy" quilts or applique quilts from clothes that have meaning. When my girlfriends husband passed several years ago, I helped her "clean out the closets and draws". As she did, she would stop and tell a story about a particular shirt or old swim suit a tie. I threw those in a separate pile later cutting them up and making a quilt for her and pillows for her four children.
Some think it morbid, but some love holding/wrapping themselves in the "love".
I don't think it morbid, its holding a memory. When my mother passed away she had so many beautiful sweatshirts that I couldn't give a way. So I made pillowcases out of them and gave them to sil and nieces and nephews. They each have a piece of her. I did it with my sisters t-shirts when she passed away also.
That's a great idea - I like to make pillow cases for the kids. I wish I had had access to my mom's clothes when she passed. It would have been nice to make something from them. I only have a hat that was my dads. I put it in plastic because it still smells like him after 20 years! It makes me feel comfortable :)