SOME of the Stuff I made in 2023

Proof that Aggie liked to climb under the tree and sit WAY back on the window sill.

And the huge push to get the quilts made out of Robb's shirts commenced on 11/23/24.  I had been cutting, squaring, fusing with interfacing, tons before that.  Cutting up t-shirts have become 2nd nature to me now. I'm sure I'll do more of that in the future!

I could NOT have done it with without a rotary blade...

Here was my first blanket laid out.  The bottom layer of flannel was supposed to make a nice pattern but some squares got mixed up in the process.  and THAT'S OK!  

The 2nd layer of flannel spells out the word DAD and I thought it would be subtle.  BOY WAS IT!  You can't tell at all so I shouldn't have stressed about that...

Then the top layers were his shirts.  10 inch squares. 

I bought a new Fiskar snipping scissors and my hands still ache from all the cuts a bit.

All the flannels came from the American Sewing Guild ASG free tables.

These two were for the girls.

These were the squares for Leon's.  All the rows were ready to make the X's on and sew together, row by row.

I had to take them to the laundromat, due to excessive shedding.  I got the heads up early from a FB group I belong to.  Plus the weight of them was so heavy wet, that I had to put them in the super sized heavy duty washer.  I also did 10 batches of our clothes at that time because our washer was on the fritz.

The flannel squares for Leon's, the one with the dragons, came from my mother-in-law's bag of squares that had already been cut.  I watched a LOT of Grimm and In Plain Sight while making these.

So ultimately the only money spent on these were my time and the labels that take you to a youtube channel playlist with videos of Robb.

The kids seem to like them!  It was definitely a labor of love.  I plan to make one more for me and possibly one for my mother-in-law for her birthday in March and possibly one for Aggie's birthday in July.