Some of ya’ll may recall I make a quilt for each of my kids every year for the holidays. I broke our digital camera last year and took forever taking old-school pics! but here they are, done with a disposable 35mm camera. Each quilt is twin-sized and has a theme which uses pieces of their old clothes. A few folks have asked to see my quilts when I mention them so I wanted to finally share pics of them!

For my son Todd, age 8, his theme was Sesame Street. He watches the show a lot and loves Elmo and the gang. I used an old shirt of his from when he was a toddler, the front of it has Elmo, Big Bird, Ernie, and Grover. I cut that part out and used it as a the centerpiece of his quilt. The shirt was a 4t so I was only able to get one more square out of it, the back. For the rest of the quilt I used one of his old baby blankets, 3 pairs of his old jeans, and a sweatshirt he just got last year but was torn down the front. For the border/backing I used a dark green and black checkered sheet with orange and yellow in it. He was also suprised because he thought I didn’t realize how much he still likes Sesame Street.

For my son Scott, age 11, his theme was the Cleveland Browns, his favorite football team. I used his old Browns t-shirt that he used to wear for every game. It was so tattered that the wrists were all torn up. I cut out the front of the sweatshirt and used it as the centerpiece of his quilt, and got 2 other squares from the rest of the sweatshirt. I also cut up an old orange sweater of my husband’s that had a big ink stain down the front, and got 4 big squares from that. For the rest I cut up a pair of old black sweatpants of Scott’s that had a big hole in one knee, and a ripped black thermal t-shirt. He loved it, he told me it was his best present and second-favorite present he received (his most favorite being a whoopee cushion his brother Todd got him). He was really surprised, he thought that I didn’t care about how much he likes football and the Browns! For the border/backing I used a dark green and black checkered sheet with orange and yellow in it.

For my daughter, age 16, Iyende’s quilt I used this pink dress she used to wear all the time that says ‘New York’ and has 2 big stars on it. I cut out the New York part and the stars and used them as the centerpiece of the quilt. I used the rest of the dress scattered throughout the quilt in 4 big squares. The other squares came from a maroon sweatshirt she used to wear, 2 pairs of her old blue jeans, and a white pair of jeans. The border/backing of the quilt is a light blue, almost a blue jean color sheet. She was so surprised, she knew I was making a quilt but thought I was using different clothes. She thought I had thrown the dress out when she out-grew it last year, and had missed it.

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