A local friend (and newspaper columnist) lost her 91-year-old mother last year.  Her mom was a Veteran in her younger years and a very special lady.  Mikie (our friend) works with two of our children at the school’s garden.  She also occasionally employs our older girls to help her with spring and fall weeding at her house.  There was one time, recently, that I needed someone to keep our daughters because we had a funeral to go to – and Mikie graciously accepted.  She loves our kids, and that makes the friendship even nicer.

Mikie called her mom DDM in her newspaper column, which stood for “Dearly Demented Mom”.  Her mother had dementia and although it was very hard on Mikie to see her mother’s mind failing – she did what any loving daughter would do and put her life on hold to care for her mom in her final years on this Earth.

After her mother passed away, I told Mikie I would love to make her a memory quilt out of her mom’s clothing.  I did not realize the extent of my offer until I dipped into the box of clothes she sent this past weekend.

She wants this piece to be the center of the quilt – it was a special table topper that a friend of DDM’s made for her in 1995:

Then, most of the clothes she sent were her mother’s cotton knit pajamas, and they are all light pastels that have faded with a lot of washing:

She also included three of her mother’s robes – one is terrycloth, one is velour and one is fleece:

Finally, she sent along two dresses that her DDM made for her when she was little:

Now, I have made a LOT of quilts over the years – but, I have never encountered a total quilt brain block such as I have with this quilt. 

So, I ask of you – how would YOU put together a quilt with these fabrics???  HELP!