quilts out of shirts
 

My husband passed away on May 14-2014 and I want to make quilts out of his shirts for our children. We have 4 children. I need ideas. thank you

Sorry to hear of your husband passing. Here is one someone posted the other day. The post was 7 shirt Quilt
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There are lots of ideas on pinterest .....

http://www.pinterest.com/tkb6801/qui...m-mens-shirts/

http://www.pinterest.com/mlisewashere/shirt-quilts/

hope you find some inspiration here!

Condolences on your loss. I think it is a wonderful idea to use your husbands shirts and make quilts for your children. Bonnie Hunter is the expert on that topic. Please don't rush yourself to make the quilts. I set out with my father's necties to make a tie quilt. It took years for the loss to go away enough to cut up the ties. Take your time.

As mentioned before, check out quiltville. Bonnie Hunter has dozens of free patterns from shirts.

so sorry for your loss i agree check out bonnie hunter

Sorry for your loss. I made Dresden plate blocks from my mother-in-laws clothes. that turned out really nice. I even used her jeans and knitted cardigans. I used stabiliser under fabric with movement.

Sorry for your loss hon. A friend of mine asked me to make 6 quilts out of her husband's shirts. I am on the 4th one now.

Sybil

So sorry for your loss! What a great idea for your children.

I am so sorry for your loss. I'm glad you can find comfort in this project. What a wonderful idea.

So sorry to hear about your husband. I found a site that you can use his shirt fabric in making quilts. It is paperpanache.com Click on the tab Past Highlights then click on SEARCH FOR PAPER PANACHE FREEBIES & GUEST PATTERNS you will then in the search type in Hawaiian (for a partial title) They have a pattern for a 9" X 11" block of a Hawaiian Shirt. So you can make a shirt quilt out of his shirts in miniature.

So sorry for your loss. I hope your children will appreciate whatever you come up with. I made one from the following link that someone had shared here on QB.

http://thethriftyquilter.blogspot.co...e-thrifty.html

It really turned out great. I did have to cut up one additional shirt to add to my backing. Pinterest also has quite a few great ideas for patterns using men's shirts. I actually went to the thrift store to buy several shirts to try a few different designs. Your children will be blessed with whatever quilts you make for them.

Sending blessings & strength to you & your children. I do hope your making the quilts will help your healing process. Just be sure to make a quilt for yourself to wrap up in also. You can use almost any clothing item in a memory quilt. You don't have to limit yourself to just cotton shirts. I have made several & have used pants T-shirts jackets & ties in these quilts. Whatever was given me I managed to incorporate into the quilts. The T-shirts & ties will need a fuse-able webbing on the back.

So sorry for your loss.

In this link you could find awesome plaid shirt quilts
http://kleinmeisjequilts.blogspot.co...h/label/plaids

and this is a classic [h=3]Seven Shirts + Seven Steps = One Thrifty Quilt

http://thethriftyquilter.blogspot.co...e-thrifty.html[/h]

So sorry for your loss and that's great what you're doing for your children. There are some shirt quilts here and I'm sure a lot of our members have great ideas.