Five Quilts Honoring Wyatt
After Jason lost his beloved son Wyatt in a tragic swimming accident, he wanted to help his family grieve. He asked me to make four quilts out of Wyatt's clothes [...]
A Quasar Quilt for Eli – His Space Quilt
Why a Quasar Quilt? Eli had an older sister who received a wonderful quilt made by her grandmother. But Eli never got one, because unfortunately his grandmother died before she [...]
A Boxes Pattern Bereavement Quilt
Choosing the Kaffe Fassett Shirt Stripe Boxes Pattern As soon as Eunice contacted me to make her some quilts using her beloved brother's clothes, we started discussing patterns. She had [...]
Bereavement Wall Hanging Made with Scarves and Ties
Request for Bereavement Wall Hanging A few years ago I made a large bereavement quilt for Teresa and Rick out of ties and scarves belonging to Rick's parents. Below is [...]
Colorful Bereavement Quilt
Colorful Shirts for a Colorful Bereavement Quilt As soon as I opened Rene's box of her husband's shirts, I knew I'd be making a very colorful bereavement quilt for her. [...]
A Poignant Love Story ending in Four Colorful Bereavement Quilts
Love Story Beth met David online just as both of them were about to give up. David was a widower and Beth had never married. Being taller than average, Beth [...]
Bereavement Quilts Honoring Wilson North
Wilson North - Patricia's husband Patricia sent me a large box of her husband Wilson North's clothes to make bereavement quilts for a number of people in her family. [...]
Bereavement Quilt using unusual Design
Kaffe Fassett Pattern For years my favorite Kaffe Fassett quilt has been his wonderful Haze Kilim quilt. So I was excited when Emily chose this pattern for her first bereavement [...]
Memory Mural made with Ben’s T-Shirts
My First Mural This past December I had the pleasure of making my first Memory Mural at the request of Debby, Ben's mother. She wanted a long narrow quilt to [...]
Making A Typical Bereavement Quilt
What's Different about a Bereavement Quilt? I live in the Northwest where I make bereavement quilts predominantly. I fell into making them by accident when [...]
A Double Diamond Quilt Variation
Double Diamond Quilt Variation By using men's clothes in this bereavement quilt, I was introducing a variation of the usual Kaffe Fassett's popular double diamond pattern. I chose this [...]
Scrapbook Memory Quilt
Scrapbook Idea Above is my latest quilt - a scrapbook memory quilt - which I made from the clothes and memorabilia of a wonderful husband for his wife. Many [...]
Memory Quilt – Bluebell Woods of England
Bereavement Quilt depicting the Bluebell Woods of England Why are Bluebell Woods of England important? Jan told me her mother grew up in England close to bluebell [...]
Unique Memory Quilt – Surfer Girl
Unique Memory Quilt - Surfer Quilt Alice loved her father, but his having been raised in America by Chinese parents with strict traditional values of hard work, he could [...]
Memory Quilt for Grieving Grandparents
Bereavement quilt for grandparents of two-year-old Alexie June Losing a Grandchild Loss of a young child is devastating. After the grieving grandparents of Alexie June learned of [...]