Could you make a pillow sham out of the 'important' shirt?

Why not just put the new shirt into a pillowcase used to store the quilt or used as a pillow with the quilt and forget all the extra work?

I realize it might be difficult, but the person wasn't helping out by leaving it this late in the game. You don't want to reward their delay - do you?

Just a thought. I've been caught the same way before and it is not fun to have to stop everything and try to regroup.

Red face - chalk it up to a Freudian slip - even proofread my post and that slipped right past me. Good for some giggle I guess. The shirt has to get in the quilt somehow. My daughter does know how quilts go together - she's made a couple of baby quilts for friends, but not her cup of tea. But she does appreciate what I am doing.

They probably have no idea what they are asking you to do.

I'd make a pillow with the straggler! It's not your fault that it wasn't given to you in a more timely manner.

Or a pillow case to match the rest of the set! You could then fold up the quilt and gift it in the pillowcase!

I wouldn't undo anything. But that's just me. Tough noogies!

Well Tartan's idea sounds like it would make your quilt amazingly complete for the auction, but if I were doing it I'd have to send it to her to do because there is no way I could pull that off! So many of you are beyond talented! I would be going down the fusible appliqué road, skipping and making Fruedian slips all along the way! "She'd be insulted?" Then perhaps she should have made sure her group's shirt was in the batch sent to you? You are a blessed soul for helping raise money for these children. I've had several students with JD and they have to constantly monitor themselves. It's tough on them.

[quote=Bobbielinks]Sorry, I'm giggling here (3 lines up from the bottom of the post, 3 words in from the left)

Maybe that's the way she feels about the project now.
:D :D

DO NOT allow them to put it in a silent auction! Require them to sell raffle tickets for it. This is because it is likely to raise *much* more money in a good raffle than in a silent auction, especially in the current economy. Unless they have deep-pocket money "angels" at the silent auction, you are very likely to be disappointed in how much is raised from all your hard work. There have been several threads about this in the past. In one case the charity was miffed that the quilter required them to raffle her donation rather than place it in the silent auction -- until it raised more money than all of the silent auction entries combined!

Of course, a raffle has to be legal in their state, so that has to be checked out.

Applique the new shirt over one of your filler blocks. AND dare them to complain! If it was so important that they have that shirt in it, it should have been sent to you in a timely manner.

Keep the misspell in the post. It fits right in with the Oh my goodness what did I agree to. LOL