T-Shirt Blanket

 Last year we helped clean out the farm closets of some of my mom's clothes. Some we sold for a pittance at a garage sale this spring, the bulk we gave to Goodwill, but we still ended up with a sack of personalized T-shirts that others wouldn't be interested in but meant a lot to my mom. I wasn't sure about what to do with them at the time but kept them in a sack in the basement. 

By chance, a friend of mine posted a Facebook post on a T-Shirt quilt she had made for someone else and I seized the opportunity to ask if she would do the same for me. She was done for the winter but promised to add me to her list the following winter after her garden was done for the year. Well that time arrived and you can see the results above. 

I didn't end up with enough for a quilt but if we used some of the backs (or fronts) with no writing or uninteresting writing and mixed it in with the rest, she had enough for a large throw blanket so that is what I signed up for. I picked it up last week when I got the call and brought it home. 

I'm not much of a blanket person but the girls really like snuggling up under blankets this time of year while watching movies so I know it will be used a lot. Our oldest daughter who has lots of memories of her Grandma, I think also appreciated the fact that these shirts had belonged to her and she remembered her wearing this one and that.