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| This quilt holds high school shirts, it was a birthday gift for a granddaughter |
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| I didn't have enough tshirts so I took a corner of a sleeve as well as a back of a shirt and two sleeves from a colored shirt and made a block that was creative for the quilt. It has solid black cotton fabric with a black scroll print, gray flannel on the back. |
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| This quilt contains a mother's sweatshirts and one embroidery block since we were short one square |
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| The daughter saw a hummingbird the day of the funeral, so we used that as our theme. |
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| She wanted something also for her daughters, so I made three extra pillow shams. |
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| I tried to take a couple of special pieces from the bottoms of some of the sweatshirt fronts. |
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| She chose a denim flannel for the back. It has a leaf print. |
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| I even used a couple of collars for pieces in the pillow shams |
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| There was a vest so I used the inner and outer layers to add some character |
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| I sent photos to her and she was just in awe. I think she will really treasure all of these keepsakes. |
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| My Customer chose a royal blue fabric for her quilt |
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| She had a grade school skirt that she wanted to use as a block. |
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| There were three shirts with collars that needed some assistance to create some squares. |
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| She chose the same basic color blue flannel backing and I found a multi color blue fabric to make the handmade cotton binding. |
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| Local Graduation Quilt |
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| Had two bandanna type towels to use from foot ball games |
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| They were different sizes so I framed them with fabric to have them work |
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| We used black flannel for the backing |
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| Blue Birds remind me of my Grandma Marge. I saw two at her celebration of life on the fountain and ever since then I think of her when seeing another. This one came to my front window on Mother's Day, then again yesterday for MeKenzei's Birthday. |
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| Couldn't have picked two more perfect times to appear |
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| He is super quick though and hard to get photos of. I hope he keeps coming by. He has a friend just like the Wood pecker and I can't seem to get photos of both at the same time. |
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| I was so excited to combine some of this for dinner on my daughters birthday yesterday. I am going to really enjoy the coming months and some fresh produce. It was hard to not eat the last two squash for lunch. I know I should wait and share with my husband though. |
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| Wow sometimes adding that colored binding really helps a quilt "POP" |
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| I love how this one turned out. Its nice and simple with 12 T shirts. It has black border fabric that is a tone on tone cotton with gray tie dyed flannel and a bright green cotton handmade binding. I think he is going to love this gift~ |
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| My husband is probably the one with the most stained clothes. Most everything is very set in so its difficult to maybe test this detergent for a true accurate account of how well it works with his shirts. When I picked up our son at college I knew this pillow was on my list. I was a little embarrassed to bring it down from his dorm. It is VERY Yellow, and just a little gross honestly. I think going to bed with wet hair probably isn't the best idea. |
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| Surprisingly it is only a year old. I asked him about washing it, he said sure give it a try. He was just going to buy another one. |
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| I can't believe how quickly time goes by. We are celebrating another birthday. I know she was excited that it did not fall on Mother's Day. We did some of her birthday Saturday since Mother's Day we planned to get our oldest from college. |
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| Both boys bought gifts with their own money. Our oldest got her a Zelda fabric silk like poster for her wall and the other got her some lilies. He looked for a couple other things but he couldn't find them. I love their giving hearts towards making her feel loved. |
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| I got her six boxes of her favorite tea from Germany. She drinks green tea every morning and really loves it. It was a perfect gift. For dinner she chose Mac N Cheese, Italian Style Green Beans, Cream Style Corn, Mashed Potatoes and Gravy and Cheesecake for dessert. I found her some Red Velvet Cupcakes as well, none of the rest of us like them so they are perfect for her to feel very special. |
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| Sometimes this kiddo has to stay home from school. No matter how hard we try his body just doesn't always cooperate. Monday this week I had to pick him up in the morning. We contacted teachers, got homework and tried to make a plan for the week to get caught up. With seven classes you can quickly get behind when you miss a couple of days. Due to the 24 hour rule he had to stay home on Tuesday as well. We made good use of that time. We tried to get his driving permit renewed. We went and got his hair cut, went and did some shopping and he treated for pedicures. The best part was lunch. The waitress thought we were dating. We had the same situation at the pedicure place. It was kind of funny really. They could not believe I was the age I am, then always assume I started super early. When I explain I have one even older than him, it really puts them over the top. What an awesome lift to a person's day. I am thankful both boys are so good about it. |
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| Spring Time brings storms, which sometimes bring down trees. Not sure how this one truly missed our mailbox, but it was nice that it did. They are expensive to replace. |
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| I was looking out at the horse that same morning, the ground was full of water. Here in the corner out the window you can see the copperhead snake. |
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| Here is a close up. The night before I was walking up the dark walkway and stepped into the house from the porch. My husband and son followed me. I totally did not see another copperhead. I had flip flops on, it was good I didn't notice. We had to kill him because of where he was. |
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| This one of course, my husband let go across the street. I don't care for keeping the poisonous ones. |
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| I was a little nervous when we went with pink fabric for this quilt. There were so many bright colors. |
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| Once it was finished it showed how much it truly worked. There was pink in some of the shirts and since the bedroom of this graduate is pink and gray I think it will tie in nicely. |
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| I love this jersey shirt. I was able to keep the V Neck unattached across the orange fabric. |
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| There was a little portion at the bottom of the shirt that she also wanted to keep. It worked perfectly to applique it directly onto the shirt square. |
