Ladies, has anyone ever made a quilt for their son with all the t-shirts from tournaments and high school games? I have atleast 30 t-shirts that I've saved with the idea of making them into a quilt.

I'm sure people do this and probably have an easier way than I could come up with. I thought I'd use fleece fabric with baseballs on the back.

Any instructions?

thanks!

I have made a small one (twin bed sized) for my son. I made it to fit the camper that we bought when he started travel ball. We camped for alot of those out of town tournaments. I added the baseball themed squares so that I could add to it. There were just uniform shirts and his favorite baseball realated T's. My plan is to use the tournament tees on the back eventually.

Beautiful! thanks for sharing. Great way to preserve the memories.

Too Cute and great idea!
A friend of mine also cut down some of the hats, no brim included and incorporated these into the quilt, also the LL patches, She also had photos of various memories printed onto fabric, photos with friends, trophies, etc.

Let'e some more ideas! I have saved all of this stuff, but have never done anything with it.
I am now officially inspired.

Thanks Lefty!

Guess what else?
If you have all the stuff and don't sew...
Send it here

http://www.tshirtquiltstx.com/

I love this!

http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/...ES06&Template=photos

I am getting more motivated looking at these quilts. I'll keep you all posted as my project progresses. I love the picture on fabric idea.

Here's more,

http://quilting.about.com/od/picturesofquilts/ig/T-Shir...-Tee-Shirt-Quilt.htm

http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/10.09.97/art-9741.html

Thank you. Sons Power Quilt as he has called it was put together very quickly and needs to be refined a bit. It is hard to get it back though.

A few years ago was going to be my mother in laws first year teaching english overseas and she was afraid that she would really be home sick and miss all us kids and espcially the grandkids. So I passed out large blank quilt squares with fabric crayons & markers even the ones out of state with mailing tubes and postage for return. Each of us made a square then I machine quilted it together and we gave it to her on mothers day right before she left, we all cried. It still travels with her each semester she is gone. I am looking for a picture to post.

Also my daughter who is 17 when she was in kindergarten her teacher had them all fabric paint a self portrait. Another mother and I quilted all of those together for a patchwork of our school family project. It was supposed to be saved by teacher and administrators to be hung up at there 8 grade graduation. If you guessed some one dropped the ball and lost it you are right. It was so sad.

I will try to post pictures of those tomorrow. I have to find them in the albums. Does anyone remeber the photo ablums. lol

If you do a search on this website, you'll find a thread in 2006 where our members had made them and had links.

I have the t-shirts and jerseys still hanging in a closet ready for me to get started on this - I've always wanted to do this for my boys.

This one is really neat!

So is this one...

I think if I did do this - the quilt would have to stay in his room at home!

I'm working on a HS baseball one now for son (with lots of help from 2 great friends because I'm not a real sewer). Thanks for the links - I'm at the point I need to pick out the fabrics for it and some of the pics gave me some ideas! Hopefully I can get it done in this life time, because he'd also like the college one too!

Oh my gooodness,...THESE ARE BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!

THANK YOU! Love the pictures and am even more motivated now. I assumed I would make each square the same size but after seeing the picture above I may make them all different sizes. Keep it coming.........

I've been saving my son's uniform shirts and the like for a quilt for him (or me...don't know if I would be able to give up those memories ) but I like the idea of having photos scanned on fabric, plus the hats.

I made my son's while he was in hs....and it even went to college with him. He loves it.

One of the best coach gifts ever was put together by the team Mom who gave each of the boys a square to decorate, told them to write me a message, then made it into a quilt for me --- that's a treasure. My favorite square was from a nine year old who was one of those players who made your heart sink whenever he was up to the plate or the ball headed his way. I taught him to pitch that season; the kid was good. And he kept working at it; later....he pitched for William and Mary!

Thanks for all your pictures and advice. I worked hard to get son's quilt finished before he came home for winter break. Wow, it took alot of work and time! I had no idea what I was getting into as I'm a very basic seamstress.


It turned out great, son was really happy with it. In retrospect it would have been less expensive to send the t-shirts to a company that adveritsed on the web. For $200 you send them the shirts and they make the quilt. But......it would'nt have been made with the extra special ingredient of love!

Seeing son's face as he opened it was worth all the time (and the finger *****s from needles and the iron burns from the fusible interfacing)

I'll post a picture soon.

Thanks again for your ideas and now let's play ball!

Hi, Ladies:

I cannot sew - can barely stitch a button back on. I have a friend who makes these quilts (so far just for fun), and is making two for me (one for each kid). She is thinking about starting a small business to do this (her kids will all be graduated and is looking for something to do), and she makes lovely quilts. If anyone is in the same boat I am with sewing talents, and is interested, pm me and I can get you some information.

Can't believe I just came across this. My wife does these and made great one for one of our son's friends and then one for our son.

I would NOT use fleece for the backing. Maybe she can remember her seldom-used log-in information and share some pointers.