I made a tee shirt quilt for my niece using shirts from her high school years -- she had MANY! IMHO it was too large and too heavy to be used as a comfort quilt. She uses it as a bedspread. I was sorry I had not made more than one afghan-sized quilts instead. It was too large for me to do the quilting on my DMS so I had to have it done by a long arm quilter. If she wants it only as a show piece for his bed, a large quilt would work.