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Historical Laundry Conundrum – Finding a Home for Shirts

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One of my favorite Python people recently collected all of her swag t-shirts and made quilt out them. The end result was beautiful and functional.

here's a link to her tweet, it's very awesome: https://twitter.com/roguelynn/status/704137673527590914

between that and one of my friends making tshirt pillows, I finally have something to do with all of mine that I don't wear but couldn't bring myself to give away quite yet.

that's me! thank you for the compliment! <3

What a great idea. Given my lack of sewing I can't imagine ever doing this myself but it would be fantastic.

[Edit: OF COURSE, this being 2016, you can apparently get this done for you :-) Although it's not cheap.]

Quilts are a ton of skilled work, but they're beautiful when finished. My mom made the quilt pictured below for my brother out of more than 25 years of annual shirts from a particular Aikido camp.

http://www.designtools.org/pix/DSCN0028.png

Of course, I doubt my mom would be too keen on making me a quilt with the "Bianca's Smut Shack" shirt shown on Jason's site, and I doubt any protests from me about it being "a part of web history" would win.

EDIT: Failed to spell Aikido properly, again.

Nah. If you want a functional quilt, you have to make it from T-shirts from Haskell conferences.

Seems like a sensible approach. I gave a pretty big pair of plastic bags of tech T-shirts (some/many never worn) to charity over the holidays. I still have far more than I will ever wear (much less need). I guess one could imagine someone wanting to make a museum display of old tech T-shirts at some point but the reality is that physical storage is expensive.

You can frame t-shirts, and turn into wall art:

http://sometimes-homemade.com/how-to-frame-t-shirts/

I could imagine Google or Facebook or some other company with plenty of money doing this on a spare wall at a new HQ. It's geek heritage.

Ouch, each time I look at this site my eyes hurt.

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