Ok, I FINALLY have photos and can post them!
Here is the litter of cats that I made out of three plaid shirts that belonged to my dad.
I removed all the buttons, opened all the seams, and then stitched the fabrics back together randomly. I used sheer fusible interfacing that I had cut into the pattern pieces, ironed them on, cut them out, and then resewed the remaining fabrics and continued on.
After cutting for all 6 cats, I still had enough fabrics left to make 4 inch stockings to hang as Christmas ornaments.
A few of the cats have pockets from the shirts on their backs and photos of Dad have been placed there.
They were very well received at the memorial we had last weekend.
ETA...I also used shrinky dink plastic to make collar tags, that I put his photo on with a little quote...