Quilted From His Own

UPDATE: Since originally posting this, I have talked with Kelli via email and she supplied me with a few flickr.com photo links. Click here and here.

So, what do you do when you have a closet full of boys clothes that are used-and-abused - but yet you don't want to give them away because of your emotional attachment to those pieces?

Cleaning and sorting through Jaxson's closet a few months back, in anticipation of making room for Annabelle and just a general Saturday afternoon impromptu cleaning/uncluttering session, we ended up with a variety of piles of clothing. Those piles were designated as follows:

• Too-small-but-still-in-good-condition-pile. Which we donated to local charities.

• Too-small-never-worn-with-tags-still-on-them-pile. Those either went to charity or back in the closet just in case #3 ever comes and if it is a boy. (That is a LONG time from now.)

• Destroyed-and-stained-beyond-human-use. Those turned into dust rags or trashed.

• Then we had the Too-small-or-damaged-beyond-further-usage-but-we-are-really-attached-to-these-pieces-pile. So, with this pile we stuffed them into a bag to let the closet decide their fate, or so momma thought. Daddy secretly had a plan.

I wanted a momento made by hand to give to Robyn, and since the only thing I can sew is well nothing - I let the professionals handle this.

I found Kelli Davis with Deborah Lane Quilting (named after her childhood street name) through a local quilting store. I told her to use her design eye and come up with something good. The only specific item I asked for was his name and birth date somewhere on the quilt. She did not disappoint:

Enjoying his/Robyn's new quilt.

All the squares are old t-shirts or shorts.

The stitching is different for each square and varies throughout the trim work.