i made a memory quilt years ago for a friend of mine's mom.. before i really knew how to quilt..
it was all her father's different dress shirts & ties that he wore to work every day.. i cut off the buttons of each shirt, put each set in a ziploc sandwich bag with a scrap of the shirt. we sewed them back onto the shirts in the right spots when it was finished.. that was a really wonky quilt, cause the fabrics were such different weights.. but her mom loved it. and that was the point.