From Campus to Keepsake: Unique T-Shirt Quilts for Graduates
Graduation season is just about here! With the caps and gowns come all sorts of celebrations for the graduates in your life. In our last blog post Caps Off to Memories, we discussed the heartfelt power of memorial t-shirt quilts as gifts for graduation. To create impactful t-shirt quilts, we explored how to tell stories through the t-shirts of the graduate in your life and how to bring those stories together as a keepsake for your graduate.
Today, let’s expand on graduation gift-giving and look at how to bring out the uniqueness of your graduate’s story. Whether it’s with the types of shirts you choose to compile, the layout of the shirts or the type of quilt you make, every graduate has a wonderfully special story to tell of their lives so far.
STORIES BEYOND ACADEMICS
Of course, the time spent in the classroom and academic achievements of a student are the primary factors to celebrate at graduation. The education they’ve received is one of the biggest factors that will propel them into the next chapter of their life, but everything surrounding a student’s education has so much influence on the young adult they’ve grown into. Commemorate their extracurriculars and formative experiences. Clubs, teams, events, dances and favorite local hot spots are fundamental to any high school or college career.
Students live very busy lives, as we all know. To create a full picture of how your graduate spent their time in high school or college, incorporate shirts from everything they were involved with–not just academics. Imagine reminiscing with your graduate about not only the story of one club or sport but the well-rounded, complete story of everything they accomplished through every moment. Collecting t-shirts from every aspect of a student’s school life in this way leads to a diverse, wonderful and heartfelt t-shirt quilt.
THE PERFECT FIT
In the same way that there are so many types of t-shirts to choose from when designing a t-shirt quilt, there are also plenty of options for the type of quilt you make! Make your quilt unique for your graduate’s collection based on the size of your collection, type of material used, and more:
For even more options of t-shirt quilt sizes and types, check out MemoryStitch’s product page!
SPECIAL MOMENTS SHARED
Now, check out the stories of satisfied graduates and families who celebrated graduation with a commemorative t-shirt quilt!
WRAP UP
Every student is unique, and every student has taken a very unique journey through school to reach graduation. When you go to celebrate the graduation of your graduate, honor the story of what they’ve accomplished inside and outside of the classroom and how their experiences are launching them into the next phase of life. There are many ways to tell this story, but nothing does it quite like a well-rounded and inspired collection of t-shirts from their time in school transformed into a heartfelt MemoryStitch t-shirt quilt!
For more help on the MemoryStitch process as you collect your shirts and gear up for graduation, check out our page on how the process works. And stay tuned to more tips and tricks on graduation season, gift giving and more right here on the MemoryStitch Blog!
Written by Zander Gibney.