Quilts of Love!

I have been such a blog slacker lately. I really don't think anyone really cares or has great interest in reading anyways, but for me it is a great way to record what's going on with us and a neat place to keep my pictures in cyber space! Anyways, being the slacker that I am, I never blogged about the neatest gift I got for Christmas. I know it was 3 months ago, but I thought I should record it now or never!

Anyways, a little background on these presents is that my dad had quite a collection of hawaiian print shirts and was often seen wearing these shirts. I have very fond memories of him in these shirts. Well, after he passed away, my mom wasn't really quite sure what to do with them since they did have quite of bit of sentiment, even though they were just shirts. Anyways, she was about to get rid of them when she asked my sister if she would be interested in using them to make quilts. From there, my sister took on this great project in making 9 quilts in all which literally took her about 18 months. She was really excited for Christmas and made sure we were all there to receive our presents.


Each quilt is very unique and she even made a name for each of them (which I'd have to ask her for since I could never remember. ) It was fun seeing them all and remember my dad as he wore each of those shirts. I know my sister put so much time, effort, and love into each quilt and I am grateful to have something of my dad's made into a beautiful quilt.


I have pictures of all the quilts except for my sister's since she hadn't wrapped it up for herself and I think wasn't finished!

This is the back of my mom's quilt. The neat thing about this is that the handprint is actually my dad's, traced from a cement block of the sidewalk at our house with all our handprints! There is a handprint made out of each of the shirts.