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Bereavement Quilts

A quilt made from your loved one’s clothing can be a powerful way to heal and process grief. These quilts can honor the outstanding achievements of the person you lost, or simply celebrate their life and precious memories. Some choose to proudly display their bereavement quilts, while others sleep under them so they are always close by.

Pictorial bereavement quilt of a dancer’s silhouette leaping across a sunset sky, her sheer brown skirt flaring out. The sky is pieced from horizontal strips of purple, red, gray, gold and cream fabric, with blue birds flying around her and a setting sun below. Dark blue and purple floral fabrics form the ground, framed by a purple border.

The Dancing Lady

This quilt is one that embodies the spirit of my bereavement work. The commissioner of this piece was grieving her mother, who loved to dance. I chose the image of a dancing lady soaring gracefully into the sky with the setting sun in the background. It is a message of joy, hope, and spirit.

Dad’s Hawaiian Shirts

Ed loved Hawaiian shirts. After his passing, his family commissioned quilts made from his shirts for his wife, daughters, and brother. The quilts were made from 20 shirts (most of them Hawaiian).

Square Lone Star quilt made by Rosie Rhine of Rhino Quilting. Nine eight-pointed stars are arranged in three rows of three, each with black points and a differently patterned center. Top row: red and black Hawaiian-style floral, turquoise and navy plaid, and tan and brown print. Middle row: black and gray floral, navy plaid around a solid blue center, and slate blue with gray prints. Bottom row: black and gray paisley, blue and white plaid, and orange and brown plaid. The stars are set on cream blocks framed by bright royal blue sashing, with a pieced border of mixed fabric strips around the edge. Swirling quilting stitches are visible across the cream backgrounds.

Bereavement quilt by Rosie Rhine of Rhino Quilting showing a surfer in white and silver fabric riding a large curling wave made of overlapping red and white leaf-shaped pieces. The wave arches over a deep blue sky with a pale moon. Below it, layers of teal, green, blue, and purple fabric form the sea and distant hills, with a glowing orange reflection on the water. Black fabric with white tropical flowers and leaves fills the bottom edge, and a small label with Chinese characters sits in the lower right corner.

Surfer Girl

Alice’s father never quite understood her love of surfing. Nevertheless, whenever she broke a surfboard, her dad was there to replace it for her. When the time came for her to honor his memory, Alice commissioned a bereavement quilt made out of his golf shirts. It was a way for her to keep him with her and show off the sport she loved.

Kaffe Fassett’s Haze Kilim Inspired Pattern

This striking contemporary bereavement quilt was inspired by Kaffe Fassett’s Haze Kilim design. The commissioner, Emily, sent in her mother’s colorful clothing to create this piece. Emily carries it with her almost everywhere she goes.

Contemporary quilt by Rosie Rhine of Rhino Quilting with a repeating kilim-style pattern of stepped diamonds and zigzag bands. The pattern is pieced in horizontal strips of red, crimson, magenta, purple, teal, turquoise, and gray fabrics, with dark navy and black shapes between the bands. The colors vary from strip to strip, so the surface looks woven.

Quilt by Rosie Rhine of Rhino Quilting in the Card Trick block pattern, with overlapping squares that look like tucked playing cards. The cards are cut from fabrics in purple, deep blue, and teal, including glittery turquoise, marbled blue-green, and black and white paisley prints. They sit on a mottled lilac background, and a narrow purple border frames the quilt.

Card Trick Block Design

This is one of six quilts created for the family of a mother whom they lost. The quilt’s design is a traditional Card Trick block, which uses a nine-patch pattern that creates the clever optical illusion of four playing cards tucked and overlapping one another.

Patchwork After Braque

This quilt was commissioned by the sister of a well-known New Yorker cartoonist to honor his late wife. I used a pattern inspired by the Cubist painter Georges Braque, and the angular triangles let each fabric stand on its own: polka dots, plaids, a lemon print, bright paisley and even pieces of her concert t-shirts. When his sister saw it, she wrote, “It’s so gorgeous and perfect. I can’t wait to give it to him.”

Quilt by Rosie Rhine of Rhino Quilting made of angular triangles in an abstract, Cubist-inspired arrangement. The triangles are cut from cream, brown, tan, gray, red, coral, and black fabrics, including polka dots, plaids, and paisley. Pieces of black and blue concert T-shirts with partial white and red lettering are mixed in. Fine quilting stitches run across the surface.

Tall rectangular quilt by Rosie Rhine of Rhino Quilting with a black border, pieced from horizontal strips of fabric in rainbow colors. From top to bottom, the colors move from gold and orange through bright red, deep purple, and violet, then to blue, teal, green, and lime. Overlapping diamond and wave shapes in each band form winding pathways that cross the quilt.

Nursing Home Farewell Quilt

This quilt was commissioned by a nursing home as part of a farewell ceremony for any residents who passed. It is meant to be lovingly draped over the body bags before they are carried away, and then displayed in the chapel after they’re gone. Only the size of the quilt was provided, but everything else was up to me for the design. All the colors of the rainbow were used with pathways overlaid, signifying life’s journey. It’s one of my favorite quilts ever made.

The Tree

This pictorial quilt was created using both scarves and ties from a loved one to be used as a wall hanging. The beautiful tree stands proudly overlooking a majestic mountain landscape.

Pictorial art quilt by Rosie Rhine of Rhino Quilting showing a woodland path through a bluebell wood. Slim brown tree trunks and pale sage-green foliage rise against a teal and gold patterned background, and a tiny pale figure stands among the trees in the distance. The forest floor is a carpet of blue, lavender, and purple fabrics, some dotted with small white flowers. A winding reddish-brown path crosses the foreground from the lower center toward the middle of the scene. A dark navy border frames the quilt.

Bluebell Woods of England

The commissioner for this piece knew exactly what she wanted to celebrate her mother’s life using her clothing. Her mother was lucky enough to grow up near the famous Bluebell Woods in England and frequently reminisced about how peaceful it was to walk through the bluebells and revel in its natural beauty. There was a lot of lavender and purple clothing provided, which worked well since the bluebells gradually turn from blue to purple as the season progresses.

A Life in Pictures

This quilt’s commissioner had a mother who had lived a very full, rich life. Her mother grew up in the hills of Texas with her beloved Palomino, had performed ballet in New York City, and was a successful doctor in New Orleans. I used her clothes to create a multi-faceted picture of a well-rounded woman’s life.

Pictorial art quilt by Rosie Rhine of Rhino Quilting with a deep blue border and a bright blue inner frame. At the top, a ballerina in a pale, sheer dress leaps with her arms raised against a blue lattice of woven-looking diamond shapes. In the middle, a city skyline sits along a band of light blue water. At the bottom, a gray-haired woman in a yellow shirt rides a palomino horse through green and olive hills dotted with red trees, with a small blue pond at the lower left.

Appliqué memory quilt by Rosie Rhine of Rhino Quilting, with a large gray center panel framed by twelve smaller blocks in bright red, orange, blue, teal, and pink, all inside a hot pink border. In the center, a little girl in a maroon cardigan runs happily with a bunch of colorful balloons, surrounded by butterflies. In each of the surrounding blocks, the same girl, with blonde hair in a topknot, is shown in a different moment of play. She appears with fairy wings, holding a heart, picking flowers, swinging, riding a toy horse, playing hopscotch, jumping, and cuddling a teddy bear.

Remembering A Happy Child

Losing a child is an unimaginable pain. These grandparents wanted to remember their sweet two-year old granddaughter as the happy, precocious little girl she was. They sent in the few precious clothes they had for her and drew a picture of the little moments they wanted to remember to create a tapestry of joy and love for their lost baby.

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T-Shirt & Tie Quilts

Race shirts, team jerseys, concert tees, a drawer full of neckties: collections like these are too meaningful to give away and too many to wear. I turn them into quilts, throws and wall hangings you can actually enjoy. Some celebrate a hobby or a milestone. Many honor someone who’s gone, because a person’s shirts and ties say so much about who they were.

Graduation Gift

A diamond pattern and a bright, colorful border give this t-shirt quilt extra zing. Every t-shirt quilt is customized to the person it’s for, however many shirts there are.

Hodgepodge-style T-shirt quilt by Rosie Rhine of Rhino Quilting, made of rectangular patches of different sizes, all from soccer shirts. The logos include Nike, Adidas, Puma, Umbro, Two Rivers Soccer Camp, Monarch Soccer, Seattle Sounders, and a “Mason” patch. The shirts are in white, red, blue, green, navy, and gray, and the patches fit together without a set pattern.

A Family Collection

Mason brought me shirts from his kids, his wife and himself, and I made three different quilts from them. This one is a hodgepodge style and I improvised as I created the quilt without a particular plan.

A Turtle in the Sea

This commissioner wanted something special for her daughter’s t-shirt quilt, with a big turtle in the middle. Her shirts all had something to do with water, waves or swimming, so I let the sea guide the design. The older, darker logos sit at the bottom like the ocean floor, and the rest drift across a sea-blue background like fish and other sea life. The turtle, made from batik swatches, swims in among them, though he didn’t quite end up center stage.

T-shirt quilt by Rosie Rhine of Rhino Quilting with a sea-blue background, where swim and water-themed shirt pieces are cut into shapes like fish, a jellyfish, a stingray, and other sea life. A large green sea turtle pieced from batik fabrics swims at the right. The shirt logos include Vortex, Westside Waves, Impalas, Wyoming Swim Camp, and PHS, along with the words “Wave” and “Sam.” Darker logos sit along the bottom like an ocean floor.

Bed-sized necktie quilt by Rosie Rhine of Rhino Quilting with a grid of fan-shaped blocks. Each fan is made of neckties in red, burgundy, green, teal, purple, black, and striped patterns, set on light blue squares. Dark navy sashing separates the blocks and frames the quilt.

My Father’s Ties

This customer asked me to make a quilt for her daughter from her father’s ties. This bed-sized quilt uses just half of the ties she sent. Afterward, she wanted a second quilt showing off his cartoon and other fun ties that mother and daughter had loved finding for him.

Diamond Ties

I’ve had several customers asking for this striking diamond shape, which really highlights the shape of the ties. Each quilt makes its own statement because of the ties themselves, rather than the pattern.

Necktie quilt by Rosie Rhine of Rhino Quilting with a diamond-shaped circle of neckties fanning out from a small gray center. The ties are in orange, red, green, navy, pink, purple, and tan, in stripes, paisleys, and solid patterns. The diamond sits on a cream background with swirling quilting, and a narrow magenta border frames it. A wide outer border of small multicolored tie strips runs around the edge.

Necktie quilt by Rosie Rhine of Rhino Quilting in a concentric square-in-square design built from narrow tie strips. At the center, a small diamond of blue, red, and white striped ties is outlined in red. Rings of dark navy, red, and gold strips spread outward, ending in triangles at the edges. Most of the fabrics are striped or patterned ties in deep red, navy, gold, and brown.

Red Ribbons: An Antique Design Reimagined

Abigail sent me a box of her father’s ties, and I made her a quilt from the Red Ribbons pattern in Kaffe Fassett’s Quilts in America, his take on an antique American design. In the 1800s, women collected the silk ribbons that came wrapped around cigars and pieced them into quilts. Ties are really just elaborate ribbons, so the pattern was a natural fit. I followed Fassett’s instructions closely, and Abigail loved the result.

A Wedding Quilt

Soon after I started Rhino Quilting, I made this customer a quilt that she gave to a friend, who still enjoys it today. Years later, she secretly asked me to make one for her daughter’s wedding, themed around sunflowers. Because the family loves jigsaw puzzles, the center looks like a puzzle, with the couple’s initials in the middle and a few colors besides yellow among the flowers.

Sunflower-themed wedding quilt by Rosie Rhine of Rhino Quilting with a large sunflower at the center. Its petals are bright yellow, and its dark red center is pieced like a jigsaw puzzle with the couple’s initials stitched in. Rings of sunflower-print fabric and more flowers in yellow, orange, and deep red surround it, with scalloped petal shapes along the sides and corners on a white background. Dark red borders and a wide outer border of sunflower print frame the quilt.

Appliqué quilt by Rosie Rhine of Rhino Quilting showing a large brown tree with a heart carved into its trunk, set on a cream background above a strip of green grass. Round fabric leaves in red, orange, green, and teal each hold a handprint, and a small owl sits on one of the branches. A border of multicolored fabric strips runs around the edge, and swirling quilting covers the background.

Tree of Life

This quilt was commissioned to bring joy and cheer to an ailing mother-in-law. It uses the handprints of the people in her family, which is a sweet reminder that even in hard times, your family is always with you.

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Baby Quilts

A baby quilt is often the first thing a child falls asleep under, and the one they keep for years. I make them from fresh fabrics chosen with you, or from tiny outgrown clothes you can’t bear to part with. Either way, each one is quilted in my own studio, ready to be played on, snuggled with, and passed down.

Baby Clothes Collection

This commissioner couldn’t bear to part with the baby clothes she’d bought for her daughters after they outgrew them, so she had me turn them into heirloom quilts for both girls. This bed-sized quilt was made for one of her daughters when she was barely out of her little-girl clothes.

Bed-sized appliqué quilt by Rosie Rhine of Rhino Quilting, made of squares set on point and separated by dark brown sashing. The squares are in pinks, reds, creams, and soft greens, and each holds a scene of a red-haired girl at different ages, such as being held by her mother, sleeping in a crib, playing, dressing up, dancing in a polka-dot tutu, and holding a Minnie Mouse-style picture. Small details like a toy bunny, framed pictures, and a TV with cartoon characters fill the blocks.

Large pictorial wall quilt by Rosie Rhine of Rhino Quilting packed with colorful jungle animals among trees and vines. Red monkeys hang from branches at the top, a blue parrot and a toucan perch among the leaves, and a spotted jaguar rests at the lower right. Crocodiles, a hippo, and a pink flamingo gather around a blue pond at the center, with orange vines winding through the scene. Green foliage and purple hills fill the background under a pale blue sky.

Children’s Jungle

This quilt lives on the wall of my bedroom, but was originally designed as a baby quilt. It was created using drawings from my then husband and features fifty animals.

Personalized Details

Every quilt I make can carry a little of your story. I can stitch a custom label on the back in your own words: a name, a date, a dedication or a few lines about the person it honors. Some clients add a favorite poem or saying to the front, or have names and initials worked into the design itself. It’s a small detail that makes a quilt truly yours, and one that future generations will be glad to find.

Close-up of a quilt label by Rosie Rhine of Rhino Quilting: a red heart with a scalloped gold edge on red fabric, embroidered in gold script with “Keith Feather and Carol Hammerstein, September 18, 2010.”

Small quilt by Rosie Rhine of Rhino Quilting with a large flower of rounded petals in pink, cream, black, navy, teal, and red around a dark red ring. The cream center holds a printed message with a small purple flower: “For Violet, Grandma’s love is always near. This quilt was made in loving memory of Grandma Zylpha Newcome.” The flower sits on a bright blue background with a striped multicolored border.

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