Twenty-five years ago I had accumulated more T-shirts than my closets could hold or that I could wear. There were personal to me, having been received via entry into tennis tournaments in which I had played and even won. Like almost everybody, I had rock concert t-shirts, running t-shirts at the height of the road-race and marathon years(which I never won), American Red-Cross blood donation t-shir
ts, and t-shirts, as you know, for practically every activity under the sun. Comfortable, cotton t-shirts that are as common to American culture as hot dogs and apple pie. Of course, being a motorcycle enthusiast, I couldn't pass a Harley Davidson shop without checking out the bikes, which always led to the clothes racks where I could find my wife looking for her next acquisition. So, twenty-five years later, I had more t-shirts in all shapes and forms than what our house could hold and thats where this idea was born. I had t-shirt quilts made out of the tennis and running shirts earlier but now I had a need for more. I started doing research and I learned that there are multiple ways to make t-shirt quilts. Some ways are good, some ways are better, and some ways are best. I decided I wanted to make quality quilts, but at a lower cost than the cost of traditional heirloom quilts. I thought, my t-shirt collection, while special to me, is so extensive that I can have multiple quilts, but if I had them made the way I had the first two quilts made, I would begin to run out of money before I ran out of shirts! I figured most people, like me, would accumulate t-shirts that might end up being quilts someday, or they might not, for that reason alone. So, I thought, why not make quality, durable quilts for display or use at a cost that would allow every member of the family to have a quilt if each wanted one. Plus, these quilts would be a way for parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, or simply friends to affordably surprise whomever they wanted for birthdays, graduation, going away gifts, Christmas, Valentine's Day, weddings, anniversaries and on and on. The opportunities are limited only by imagination. For example, a quilt could made for every year of a child's life in school, for each year lived, or for a very special moment in a person's life that might last only a very short time. The variations are limitless. These are gifts that can be repeated for occasions that differ from the first gift and could literally span an individual's life. Alright, alright, before I get carried away, I'll stop! It's just seeing the looks of joy, pride, surprise, astonishment, or in a word, satisfaction, on people's faces when they receive their quilt or get the quilt to give that excites me about what I am doing. Some people are speechless. And, at these prices, room is left for that special occasion for that once in a lifetime extra special quilt that is going to become a family heirloom. I can make it too. The choice is yours. It's never too soon and never too late.
