When my father died, my mother saved a few of his shirts. Why don't you go to Goodwill, Salvation Army or yard sales and find some "gently worn" shirts that would work together and use the fronts and backs for quilting pieces. Don't plan complicated patterns, just start off easy and buy a couple of solids to border your pieces so they don't have to work precisely together, but will still be nice. I am doing this now for my mother who is now in a nursing home and misses Daddy more than ever.
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