Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Log of P1 T-shirt quilts over the years




Updated December 2020 for one last quilt

As the company closes its doors on September 23, 2020 I wanted to review just how many of these corporate t-shirt quilts I've made.  When we vacated our beautiful corporate office at the end of May, I was given a large stack of shirts from a storage room.  Individuals have also contacted me and donated shirts.  So I was able to made several in the last 6 months for long term coworkers.  Some have asked, some were surprises.  All this got me to wondering, how how many have I made in total and can I remember where they all went.  So here is the list, along with pictures of the recipients when they would consent. 😄  Note there are other posts about many of these earlier quilts scattered through this blog.


Vicky from inventory, with the company 30 plus years.


Janet from legal - with the company 42 years








Barbie from loss prevention (who gave me the very 1st bag of shirts)- with the company just a few days shy of 43 years


Karen from internal audit, IT & customer relations - with the company 29 years, retired in January


Stephanie from IT Mainframe, kept our ancient inventory system going for 23 years


Roxie from Inventory - left for a few years then came back just in time to go through the bankruptcy

 


Paul from internal audit.  His wife Renee hired me 15 years ago.  I got to surprise them with the quilt in the mail.  I know they will cherish the remembrance. 



















Lori from HR who started at P1 32 years ago (two sisters, a brother, and mother also worked at P1) 

Christine from HR - the last P1 quilt -  made December 14, 2020














Suzie from credit services - with the company 34 years



Shaun from credit services - her quilt matches Suzie's - they worked together over 20 years



Sonja from cash audit, with the company 27 years.




Teresa from accounts payable - made as a comfort quilt when she was in chemo.  Many folks from the finance department came by to sign their name and add well wishes.










Sheryl from accounts payable - with the company just short of 35 years.  Quilt was present as anniversary gift for her 30th.


Rachel from customer relations & IT, moved to Arizona



United Way raffle quilt October 2011 - won by Rhonda but given to Darla my boss, who had bought LOTS of tickets.  This was the very 1st P1 quilt.  

The next year Darla won and gave it back to Rhonda.  How's that for symetry!

  

Well it looks like the total is 17.  I don't know that I will make any more.  Though that stack of shirts is still pretty large. I'll hold on to them for a couple more months then donate them.  Going to miss you P1!



4 comments:

  1. wow...that is some collection! You have making t-shirt quilts down to a science.

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  2. Dee's mathematical mind plus her eye for color made dynamic combinations on these quilts. Her co-workers were lucky to have a quilting artist lurking on the premises!

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  3. Oh wow, Dee, thank you so much for this beautiful Pier 1 quilt!! I have a thousand memories and you’ve created a treasure I will keep forever! Pier1Love!!

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  4. What a beautiful treasure! Not just the quilt either! It takes a special person with a heart full of love to make all these memories for others. Thank you so much!

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