While this is a new page to my web site, I have been making these types of quilts for almost as long as I have been in business.

Many of these quilts are made from the same patterns as the other quilts that you will find pictures of on this site. There is just one difference. The fabric that these quilts are made with is from the clothes of either someone who has passed on or from the clothes that someone has outgrown or no longer wears. In the cases of someone who has passed, the quilt(s) are keepsakes for loved ones. Or they can be memories of a child who’s grown up or of a particular time in someone’s life. Sometimes there isn’t clothing available and the same thing can be accomplished by transferring pictures onto fabric.

A lot of these quilts are t-shirt quilts. Many of them are made using very traditional patchwork and appliqué quilt patterns. Some of the patterns were adapted to fit the particular pile of clothing that I had to work with. As many of you who have worked with me before know, rule #1 around here is that there are no rules! While not everything is possible with every pile of clothing, just ask!

While I have been making “Memory/Memorial” quilts for a long time, there was an impetus to adding this page. A few years ago I took a class taught by a local psychic. Ever since I got to the mediumship part of the class, it’s become pretty common for me to “pick up” the person whose clothes I’ve been working with. Sometimes I get just enough to know that they are here. Sometimes they get right up in my face, so to speak. The number of these quilts I have been getting in the last couple of years has gone way up. It’s just confirmation for me that I’m on the right path.

So enjoy these pictures. There are some very interesting stories behind a lot of them.

Mary