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Shaina found my business via Facebook and contacted me. She and her husband have been married for over 15 years and now have children. She had been saving shirts for years, in the hope of someday finding a person who could turn them into a quilt! Some of the shirts she saved were from when they first started dating, so they were very sentimental. She wanted a quilt that the whole family could snuggle under on the couch and enjoy hearing stories about their parents' fun memori

This week while opening my mail, I was surprised and thrilled to receive a letter stating that my business page on Nextdoor had received enough votes to win a "2025 Neighborhood Fave Award"! Managing multiple social media accounts across several different platforms, and regularly creating and editing content to post on all of them, has definitely been a challenge that I'm learning to navigate as a small business owner. Despite the challenges, I'm so grateful for the tools and

This quilt tells the stories of 3 separate "eras" of my client's life: many years in Boy Scouts, a love of participating in theater shows during high school and college, and a love for his Alma Mater, Colby College in Maine. My client asked me to keep the shirts grouped together (as much as possible) according to the "era" of his life. He also requested that the design be somewhat chronological, with the Boy Scout shirts (oldest) at the top and going down to the college shirt

I'm very proud of how this quilt came out for several reasons: I did not have many shirts to work with! Typically for my medium (60x70) size quilts, I prefer having around 20-25 shirts to work with so I will have plenty of material for the design. This client only had about 11 shirts from their college years that were in good enough condition to be used for the quilt. I had to be very careful when designing the layout, cutting the graphics, and cutting remaining fabric scraps