We all save T-shirts because they represent what's important in our lives....who we are, what we do, and where we've been. We won't throw t-shirts out because they tell our life history and are a record of our favorite pursuits. Eventually a "what to do with all these t-shirts?" stage is reached.

Thousands of people have created a visual biography using the T-QUILT pattern, and here's what they say:

• "When my son left for college, I cleaned his room and counted 88 t-shirts."
  
  
• "I can't bear to part with my tour shirts, even tho' I wouldn't be caught dead wearing them again."
  
  
• "...for my husband's 50th in the year 2000."
  
  
• "My senior-in-college daughter still has her t-shirts from the 1st grade on up."
  
  
• "At 2 to 3 shirts a month for 17 years of running, we've run out of drawer space."
  
  
• "You had us all talking at our sorority alumnae meeting."
  
  
• "My husband is a Viet Nam veteran and has a large collection of POW-MIA t-shirts he can't bear to part with."
  
  
• "This will be a wonderful wedding gift for my fiance."
  
  
• "I will use the pattern to capture my dad's long career as a labor advocate."
  
  
• "She was 19 and our only child. She had so many favorite t-shirts I couldn't throw away."
  
  
• "My musician husband gets T's from clubs, festivals, and radio stations nationwide."
  
  
• "...as a legacy of the work I've done at the NASA Johnson Space Center with T's commemorating Shuttle missions."
  
  
• "My husband was killed a year ago. Many of his t-shirts reflect his life. It will be nice to keep them around, close to me."
  
  
• "I have 200 T's from concerts, fraternity and sorority events, and every possible vacation place from everyone in my family."
  
  
• "I usually throw out my boyfriend's T's. He'll keep thinking I threw them out...until Christmas morning."
  
  
• "My husband has a Harley bike and hundreds of t-shirts."
  
  
• "I want to make one out of my son's t-shirts. He was killed by a drunk driver."
  
  
• "This will be the only way to save my basketball T's from my mother's charitable hands."
  
  
• "...a creative and inexpensive way to display event t-shirts from past (Red Cross) fund raisers."
  
  
• "My fiance is a recovering drug addict and collects T's from his groups activities."
  
  
• "Martha Stewart would love this!"
  
  
• "We're making a quilt for the main hallway out of all of our school's t's."
  
  
• "My son has been wearing heavy metal t-shirts for 5 years and is finally beginning to wear normal clothes like the rest of the world."
  
  
• "Our daughter wants an "international" bedroom with a quilt made from her travel T's."
  
  
• "My sister lost her husband to cancer, and he was an avid t-shirt collector, having hundreds."
  
  
• "...just in time to retrieve the discarded T's bagged for our upcoming garage sale."