She is getting closer to leaving and we are almost ready.
 

My daughter leaves for college this week. I know she is ready and I think we are getting closer to being ready. She will only be about 45 minutes away, but will be living down there. I'm finishing up our t-shirts for moving day. Just have Dad's to do, but I have to embroidery that one.

Thos are all so cute!

What a cute idea!

Very cute shirts.

What a great idea!

What a great idea and well executed too!

Oh what a nice idea!! It should make her feel good!!

Very nice.....

Your a special mom, your daughter will love what you did.

My daughter went to Drury in Springfield for a couple of years before transfering to Louisana. I'm sure you will enjoy having her so close - especially with gasoline being so expensive.

Fantastic shirts!

I know the feeling. My youngest leaves in 2 weeks. She is ready, but I am not. She will be about 90 minutes away, so still close enough to see on weekends.
Fun idea on the shirts!

Just cute as can be, great job and thank you for sharing, may your daughter make you proud.
Have a Blessed day
Ellen

It really, really is! Jenny pride, right?

These shirts are great! Can you tell me how you did them? Did you fuse the letters and if so, what kind of fusible did you use since it looks like you have knit shirts? Looks like you stitched (hand or machine?) around the lettering too. I have a friend who wants to make a couple of shirts for her new business and fusing is how I was thinking would be the best way to go. Thanks for any help you can give.

Oh and PS: You are lucky that she is not going to be too far from home. It's hard when they leave as you already surmised.

Yes, the Jennies and the Mules. My alumnia where I got my masters degree. I love it because it is close but yet far enough to go away to college.

KLO, yes, I printed the letters off the computer, reversed them and traced on to Heat n Bond fusible. Then I sewed the blanket stitch around the letters using my sewing machine. I did wash the shirts first in case they shrunk. Below are a few items I appliqued, like hoodies, and pants.

Very nice! You did a great job.:thumbup:
BTW, my son and DIL just moved back to my area from Blue Springs. They had a cute 1930's hand crafted cottage style house on Lake Tapawingo. I really loved it there. Blue Springs is a very pretty area and I loved walking the trails in the parks and around the lakes. However, I'm very glad to have them only an hour away now.

those are really cute

Cute idea! Anything that helps that separation, is okay and these shirts are adorable!

Super shirts!

This is absolutely adorable. You are very talented.

Adorable! What a great idea.

What super shirts! Love them!

I feel that I need to tell you, that the first one is the hardest to send away to college, I cried all the way home to Ohio from
Wisconsin. Only one of our six children was remotely close, but a two hour drive, none the less. We now have grandchildren in college, one is attending the University of Queensland in Australia. OK, truth be told, it gets a "little bit"
easier after the first. I love your attitude, and making it fun is so important. I think that with Skype, e-mail and cell phones you can keep in touch with her, whenever you are needing to. That is what we do, I don't know how big your family is, but now that we have grown to number 26, I have started what we call the "Sunday News" I usually know what is going on in the different families. On Sunday, I condense it all into our news letter, they love it, and will reply
with comments etc. We have found this really fun.

What a wonderful idea and great looking t-shirts! Go, MOM!

KathyKat, Blue Springs is a nice area. I grew up in Kansas City, MO, so this was an easy move when I got married. But, I do agree with you that it is nice having our kids closer to home.

Those are really cute! What a great idea!

sure to be a great hit.

Fantastic job on alll of your projects

Too cute!!

Thanks kathdavis for the information. This is what I was going to suggest to my friend so now that I know it works, I will definitely tell her. Your shirts and such are great. I probably should show her your photos so she can see how nice they turned out. Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions and to even include more photos. I sure do appreciate it.

Very clever tees. A support family showing.

My daughter went to UCM when it was CMSU, great school. I love your shirts and for all the family. I live 9 miles from there and they have a great community around the school and she will enjoy her time there. Hope to see you in the Berg sometime. By the way our Quilt Guild in the Berg, will be hosting Patty K, E Burns sister again on Sept 5. Hope to see you there.

Nice work! I'm sure there will be many compliments!

Wonderful Idea, great shirts.

Oh, how fun! :)