Before everyone left to return to their homes, they helped me with several projects around the house. One of those was to decide what to do with Roger’s clothing. The pall bearers at the funeral all wore (and then kept) one of his ties. The girls wanted to do something with his shirts, so we salvaged the fabric and put it aside for the future.
Some weeks later some of the girls came back. While everyone was working on various projects, Kathleen took out the fabric pieces and made squares out of the shirt sleeves. Then she laid them out with sashing between the squares and sewed the quilt top together. We even found a little Alaska Grown patch on one of his hats that we made part of the quilt. Before she left we put the quilt on the frames.
Jana embroidered the message on the back of the quilt.
While I was taking Kathleen to the airport, Joey and Robert arrived. While they were visiting, they helped me tie the quilt.
Once the binding was done, I mailed it to Roger’s mom up in Alaska in his memory.
Eventually we will make 6 more quilts from the shirt scraps that are left…one for me and one for each of the children.
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