Memory quilt and pillow for a friend

The mother of one of my friends passed away a little over a year ago.


While she was not able to get many pieces of clothing from her stepfather she was able to get a couple of the favorite shirts that her mother would wear.


She asked me to try to make something that she could use on the couch as a memory.


Here is what I was able to come up with:

Here is another picture of it.  There are 9 squares from the shirts; the rest of the pieces are fabrics from my stash.

I am hoping that you can click on the pictures to see that the center row of squares are actually patterned and not just plain as they appear to me while I am writing this.

The shirt that the center squares came from had a decorative bodice on the front.  Since there were beads and metal decorations on it I was nervous about putting that into the quilt since I was afraid that I might hit the decorations with the long arm.

So I cut that part out of the shirt, added a couple of borders to make it a good size for an 18" pillow form.

I will be giving these pieces to my friend this weekend.  I hope that they bring her some comfort and that she likes what I did.

This was the first time that I had worked on a t-shirt type quilt and, while it was not easy, it was not as difficult as I thought that it was going to be. 

Linking to Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal - April Finish Link-up

In peace and pieces,


Sherry


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