Catching up - graduation quilts

 
Made for former co-worker's twin son, Alex.

This one is for her twin daughter, Veronica

Made for music minister's eldest daughter, Autumn.  The shirts were narrow, so I added additional sashing to make it a bit wider.

Made for another former co-worker, for her 2nd son. 

Finally an Aledo Quilt plus another Graduation quilt

 We've lived in Aledo for 20 years now and had two kids graduate from high school there.  You'd think I'd have made several of these, but for some reason it has never happened.  Just recently a long time friend asked me to made one from her son's football jerseys she had found in the attic.  It turned out great - such striking colors. 

I received a graduation announcement last fall for my father's step-great-granddaughter (that's a mouthful).  Since I had made a t-shirt quilt for her sister, I asked if she would like one too.  The answer was yes.  So only 11 months late, here is Kennedy's quilt.  I have to admit it was fun doing this one - the shirts were so fun.  Plus it has a t-shirt from her mom's and my home town - it made me kind of nostalgic while working on it.

 

Graduation & just for fun

 After the flurry of so many T-shirt quilts when Pier 1 closed during the Covid lockdown of spring 2020, I found I was seriously TIRED of making T-shirt quilts.  But one last co-worker asked for a graduation quilt for her daughter and I couldn't say no.  This is the second quilt made for all theater shirts.  It was fun seeing all the plays and musicals she had performed.  

This quilt was for the husband of my friend how has cut my hair for the last 18 years.  He is retired from the marines and does several volunteer projects for the family outreach.  We had to sneak out t-shirts in order to surprise him.  The funniest part was when I gave him the quilt the 1st thing he noticed was I had attached one of the patches upside down!  Duh.  Fortunately it was easy to redo it as I hadn't quilted through the patches.  I was gratified that the first thing he did was to post a picture on his facebook page.

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!

Graduation Favorite

This spring during the quarentine a co-worker asked if I would make a graduation quilt for her son and brought over 2 bags full of shirts.  She wanted me to use the gray cambray backing fabric I already had on hand as it was neutral and looked good with most of the shirts.  But as I was working on it, I kept thinking how much I loved that bright kelly green, what could I do to dress it up a bit and tie in with those shirts.  Aha, a narrow border!  It turned out so well, we both loved it.  Thanks goodness for a large drawer of pretty green fabrics to pull from.

Best of luck at college, Aiden!

 

An Attorney quilt

 Under the heading of It's a Small World, I had to give a deposition at work where the attorney representing my company was also the boss of a long time quilter friend.  And it was also a company that I used to work on their audit 20 years ago when I was a public accountant.  Fast forward 10 years and now the quilting friend is retiring and was asked the by attorney if she would make him a T-shirt quilt.  But since she was in the process of moving out of town she referred him to me.  She dropped the quilts off at my house on her way to her new home. I was able to include all the shirts but it is a big quilt.  

I mailed the quilt and emailed the attorney the total cost along with a picture of the completed quilt.  The next day he calls me and asks if I've already mailed the quilt.  Hmmmm, yes, why?  Well he actually didn't want me to include the shirts with his name as he was going to donate it to the company as a fund raiser, how hard would it be to take those two out?  Well even if I hadn't mailed it the effort to remove those shirts or cover over his name would have been enormous, really can't do it, please don't mail it back to me.  Well he calls me back after he received the quilt and tells me thank you for putting in the shirts with his name, it gave him an excuse to keep it and he loves it so much he wouldn't want to part with it.  Another happy quilt owner!

Graduation quilt

Made for a church senior graduating this year (2020), in the strangeness of quarantine.  They dropped off the shirts on the porch in March and we waved through the window, then I mailed it back as the family has moved out of town.  But they are happy and that is what matters.  I used the floating block pattern just to add some interest - I think it goes well with the theater shirts, looks kind of like notices on a wall.

        Love the smiling face!  Good luck at TWU Titus!