A Quilt For My Mom

My best work yet is the quilt that I recently made my mom for Christmas. Just over two years ago, my very special dad passed away from cancer and we all miss him like crazy, especially my mom. My parents met as teenagers and were married for almost 56 years.

My dad was a very creative man who like to draw, write, take photos, make videos, sculpt with metal --pretty much anything that intrigued him. We called him the Renaissance Man. In his later years he took up painting -- without telling anyone. But that's another story.

I wanted to make something special for my mom so I took the photos that we had of my dad’s paintings and printed them out onto fabric sheets. I took these fabric sheets and put them together to make up a quilt for Mom.

It was one of my proudest moments when I gave it to her. Of course there were some tears, but there were lots of smiles, too. Mom can now be warmed by the comfort of dad’s creations.

I really enjoy creating Personal Quilts. I love having a part in keeping memories alive!!

For more information on how we can turn your memories into a personal quilt go to www.mypersonalquilt.com.

Quilts To Comfort

This past year I made memory quilts for two teenagers who had recently lost their mother to cancer.

I had a few t-shirts to work with but mostly the quilts were lovingly put together with fabric from their mom’s clothing. Each of these quilts also has a photo of their mom. To put the photo on I used fabric sheets that feed through a printer. The photo of their mom was printed directly onto the fabric. Then I used that fabric as one of the squares.

The gal who ordered these very special quilts wanted the kids to be able to wrap their mom around them during the sad times. That still brings tears to my eyes. I have to say that is very fulfilling to me knowing that I may have a small hand in easing the teens' pain during this devastating time.

For more information on how we can turn your memories into a personal quilt go to www.mypersonalquilt.com.

How I Started Making Personal Quilts

Hi, my name is Jeryl Weiler. Several years ago, I heard about T-shirt quilts and I was very intrigued. Just think, a way to use T-shirts that were just piling up in our closets and drawers and turn them into something you can use. I like to sew and thought this would be right up my alley. My family had t-shirts piling up that we didn’t just want to get rid of because they held lots of memories in them but we didn't want to use as shirts anymore. Memories are precious but these T-shirts were taking up way too much space in my closets! Turning these T-shirts into quilts seemed like a great solution. However, being a busy, working mom of 3 active scholar/athletes, nothing happened for quite awhile - years, in fact.

When the Athletic Booster Club at one of my kids’ schools was preparing for our annual dinner dance and auction inspiration struck! I knew just what I wanted to contribute to the auction. I wanted to make a T-shirt quilt incorporating some of the school's past T-shirts. With T-shirts that I already had and T-shirt donations from several members of the Booster Club, I ended up with 12 T-shirts that I could use for a quilt. I quickly went to work and the quilt began to take shape. With each step I became more and more excited with how it looked.

I brought it to the auction and it went for a great price. (In fact, a woman was “guarding” it towards the end of the auction saying that SHE was going to be taking it home. That made my day!)

Before the night was over, I had several different people approach me about making one for them.

I was so proud of the quilt that I posted a picture of it on Facebook just to show off my work. I was surprised and delighted when I had a few friends ask if I could make one for them. And so began my journey making T-shirt quilts. I would love to help you turn your old memory filled T-shirts into a beautiful quilt.

For more information on how we can turn your T-shirts into a beautiful personal quilt go to www.mypersonalquilt.com