First the story and then the pics.
A few months ago one of our Inland Mopars Car Club members called me to see what I thought about a little project he was thinking about. Inland Mopars has been working MATS in Las Vegas for about the past 8 years - each year club members voluntarily drive from SoCal to Las Vegas to park the car show field for the event.
Turns out our club member has been collecting event t-shirts from each years show since MATS started; he also had a jacket from one of the past years. His idea was to use the t-shirts to have a quilt made to present to Phil and Jill Painter to thank them not only for all of their efforts to put on the greatest Mopar event in the western U.S., but also for all of their generosity and assistance to past Inland Mopars Car Club charity-assistance activities. Phil and Jill are truly special people.
Well, one of my wife's (Judy) hobbies is quilting so I asked her if she wanted to take on the project which she was more than happy to do. The following pics show the finished quilt that was completed just prior to presenting it to the Painter family following the Saturday night concert at the Cannery. Judy was hand-sewing the border to the quilt on our drive to Las Vegas on Thursday. She put a lot of time and effort into this project and she's very pleased at how well it turned out - and I'm very proud of her.
Here's a few pics of the finished product. I think it takes the award for "Best Mopar Quilt" at the 2012 MATS!
As you can see, it's rather large - she's standing on a chair holding it up for the pic.
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A few months ago one of our Inland Mopars Car Club members called me to see what I thought about a little project he was thinking about. Inland Mopars has been working MATS in Las Vegas for about the past 8 years - each year club members voluntarily drive from SoCal to Las Vegas to park the car show field for the event.
Turns out our club member has been collecting event t-shirts from each years show since MATS started; he also had a jacket from one of the past years. His idea was to use the t-shirts to have a quilt made to present to Phil and Jill Painter to thank them not only for all of their efforts to put on the greatest Mopar event in the western U.S., but also for all of their generosity and assistance to past Inland Mopars Car Club charity-assistance activities. Phil and Jill are truly special people.
Well, one of my wife's (Judy) hobbies is quilting so I asked her if she wanted to take on the project which she was more than happy to do. The following pics show the finished quilt that was completed just prior to presenting it to the Painter family following the Saturday night concert at the Cannery. Judy was hand-sewing the border to the quilt on our drive to Las Vegas on Thursday. She put a lot of time and effort into this project and she's very pleased at how well it turned out - and I'm very proud of her.
Here's a few pics of the finished product. I think it takes the award for "Best Mopar Quilt" at the 2012 MATS!
As you can see, it's rather large - she's standing on a chair holding it up for the pic.
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ops: She and I love it Ken!! (ocdart) 
