When our Mom passed away last year all our siblings asked us to make them each a quilt using Mom's clothing. Of course we said "Yes." After all, we wrot
e the book! The only drawback....there are eight of us. That meant making eight quilts. We needed to make them identical. And, because we had to make so many we wanted to pick a simple pattern. What could be easier than a one patch? We decided to put sashing inbetween each block to break up the colors. We had quite a bit of fabric left over from our Grandmother's dresses, and one of our brothers called offering us our Dad's ties for the project. All the blocks that have Dad's ties in them were made into four patches because the fabric pieces were smaller. These quilts now have Mom's, Dad's and Grandma's clothing. We have three already completed and five to go.
When our Mom passed away last year all our siblings asked us to make them each a quilt using Mom's clothing. Of course we said "Yes." After all, we wrot
e the book! The only drawback....there are eight of us. That meant making eight quilts. We needed to make them identical. And, because we had to make so many we wanted to pick a simple pattern. What could be easier than a one patch? We decided to put sashing inbetween each block to break up the colors. We had quite a bit of fabric left over from our Grandmother's dresses, and one of our brothers called offering us our Dad's ties for the project. All the blocks that have Dad's ties in them were made into four patches because the fabric pieces were smaller. These quilts now have Mom's, Dad's and Grandma's clothing. We have three already completed and five to go. 
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