Old 11-03-2010, 04:56 AM
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quiltmom04
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Originally Posted by Lyncat
My 98 year old grandfather recently passed away, and I asked my aunt for all of his shirts, thinking it would be nice to make keepsakes for all the relatives. So now I have a bag of shirts sitting in my sewing room, but I don't really have any good ideas about what to make out of them. Does anyone have suggestions, keeping in mind that I teach school and don't have unlimited time. Thanks!
A friend of mine had a quilt made from her husbands flannel shirts. It is a strippy quilt of flying geese in one strip and a coordinating color in the next strip. The flying geese triangles were the flannel shirt pieces. It's very masculine looking - just like her husband would have liked.
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