Autograph Quilt for Boy In Car Accident
Last week one of our employees was hit by a car while crossing the street at 3 am! He had just turned 21 years old. The impact forced him through the windshield. He suffered broken bones in both legs and had many other injuries but survived and is in the hospital slowly recovering. We all wanted to do something special so I volunteered to make him a quilt. We have a lot of employees so I used two 12 1/2 inch blocks and had everyone sign one block with a fine tip sharpie permanent marker (wish I would have thought about using a fabric marker for this but now it's too late!). I followed instructions that I found on the internet to set the markers and make them permanent on the fabric. The markers respond to heat and will become permanent if you apply heat. I experimented with this process and it works pretty good. The signatures should withstand cold water wash and should last for many washings.
It's a very simple quilt and took about 12 hours to make. One of the gals is taking the lap quilt to him today.
We are all routing for a speedy recovery for him. It will be several months and I am sure many therapy sessions before he is able to return to work.