Welcome from central Illinois!
We lost my dear father-in-law recently. When my MIL is ready to clean the closets, I am hoping she will allow me to take the flannel shirts to do some lap quilts for the grandkids. I plan to use simple blocks to allow the plaid fabrics to work together, and I hope to incorporate a shirt pocket on every quilt (because this was close to Grandpa's heart, as was his family). I'm also hoping to applique a few leaves on each quilt, using as patterns some leaves I gathered and traced last fall from their wooded property. The house will be sold this summer and my MIL will move into an apartment. We are all going to miss this house very much...lots of good memories. The kids loved to play in the woods.