Ask one of the elder family members to let you take their old shirts or dresses. Cut them up into strips or squares and make a quilt for the persons child or grandchild. It doesn't have to be fancy. What a treasure this was for my stepdaughter to get a quilt made out of her daddy's old shirts.
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I have a lot of my late mother's clothes and would love to make a beginners quilt out of them. Does anyone have directions to share?
