I was joking around with my wife earlier today when I had the idea to take all our old garments, temple clothes, white dress shirts, etc and make a quilt out of them to casually whip out when TBM family comes over to visit.

I would call it the Guilt Quilt since so much of my membership was spent feeling guilty . . .

Great idea.

The church could market something similar, a garment blanket. Now you can have sex naked and sleep naked under your garment blanket. Be protected from evil spirits and falling chainsaws while you sleep. You will need the accompanying garment sleeping hat if you want to stick your head out. For added protection get our garment mattress pad for protection from threats under your bed.

Thanks for the laugh. I need that.

hahaha

Must sleep naked under it for it to work.

Oh, with your order we will ship you a consecrated bucket of sand that your head will fit nicely into for those challenging moments when thinking is just too difficult.

The patchwork of sweat stains will be lovely.

Don't forget the skid marks.

I wonder what a non-sweat stained version would go for on eBay....hmmm... excuse me while I go to the sewing room...

My grandma was a sewer and quilter, as were many from her generation. She presented me with a quilt one day when I was a young adult, made ‘speshul for me.’ She took particular interest in pointing out how a few of the squares were made from old scraps of pyjamas I had worn as a child, and also from scraps from my grandpa’s old boxer shorts. Now I know you’re thinking ‘ew, that’s just gross’. But, now recall that my grandfather was also responsible for my repeated sexual abuse as a child, and it just takes it to a whole another level beyond that.

Ya, my gramm’s was into the whole subliminal, psychological, screw with your head stuff, they both were …LOL. I kept the ‘guilt quilt’ …or I guess you could call it a ‘shame quilt’; hell it was a good quality item (as Eddy would say). I just used it for camping and covering things over in the garage. Thanks for that one gramma, satan rest her soul! I think it's still even out in the garage, maybe.

A quilt like that can be a wonderful thing. I wish I had kept some of my kids clothes to do exactly that.

You CAN make quilts out of tshirts but it involves backing and some extra steps. Garmie material is pretty crappy but I think you could do it if you treated it like tshirt material. BUT no way I would ever want to have to look at those things again to make one. SOOOO many beautiful fabrics out these days of MUCH better quality. The only good thing to say about the garmies of today is that at least they are not those nasty old one piecers. But really, damn near ANYTHING would be better than those!

No worries susan. My wife and I laugh about that old quilt from time to time. These are my stories, these are my memories. I like to laugh about them, it seems to help keep me sane. I chuckled when I read this, and thought about that old quilt. Good old gramm's... :/

I didn't mean for that to put you off your idea, I'd say do it. I just wanted to share my funny quilt story.

Your grandma was a 'sewer'...

that really made me laugh!

Sorry, little Freudian slip there. She was a seamstress of shorts, or sew it seams. (snort) !

I have a quilt made for my mother by the ladies in the Lovelock, NV, Relief Society. I was born there and we moved back to Utah when I was 5 (my parents were from American Fork).

The sister there quilted blocks and stitched their names in the quilt, I guess to have her remember them.

I'm not the oldest of the siblings left but no one else seems to want it so it's in storage in a plastic bag.

Things like that are really a part of Americana. And plastic is HORRIBLE for fibers. Mail me and I will get you hooked up :)

I read this thread to my wife, a quilter, and she said said that's way too much work. She said just throw them in the trash.

Then take the guilt quilt and make ski clothing out of it so nobody will ever die in an avalanche.