Sew Knot Simple: Tee Shirt Quilt

When my husband suddenly passed away 7 years ago our family was devastated. When I plow through old pictures I can now smile at things that were so raw only a few years ago. The holidays are always difficult and I suppose always will be. I have two wonderful children and the most difficult thing I ever had to do in my life then and probably forever was calling them on the phone and tell me their dad had died. Horrible thing to have to do...but as I said looking back at some pictures brings some warm feelings.

When my husband died my sister and her husband came all the way from the far west coast ( my sister flew from a one small building airport in Washington and my brother in law drove their RV and towing their car to the Jersey shore ) to be with me. They stayed for 8 weeks helping me try to put some of the splintered wood back together. My sister gently took all my late husband's tee shirts and some shirts and blue jeans and I never really asked why but that Christmas the following wonderful things appeared a few days before Christmas!!!! She had loving photographed, cut apart and sewed quilts for my children and myself ....here they are...the small lap quilt she made for me used all the sleeves from his favorite tee shirts while the quilts she fashioned for my children included the tee shirts he wore over the years the kids played sports or traveled with him. She took pictures of each tee shirt front and made a photo collage for each of us. She's so smart and so creative......