I started this quilt the summer my son was born. We had just purchased a house, I was off work on maternity leave, and I had two small children at home. Creativity rarely waits for anyone, so I was inspired to use my husband's old flannel shirts for quilt blocks. I began to cut the shirts up into these pieces. I added to the pile over the years - old flannel shirts, leftover material from sewing projects - and finally put it all together in 2013.
After all the years of collecting, there were enough flannel pieces to make a double sided quilt. I purchased maroon flannel for the front of the quilt and hunter green for the back. The solid color outlines the flannel.
I "ragged" the quilt on the front side, then machine quilted my son's ancestors' names on each strip with his name in the middle.
