A Satisfied Customer
We mailed her finished quilt to her in New York. A short time later she graciously posted this on Facebook. The quilt took a long time and a lot of collaboration so we got to know each other pretty well throughout the creation process. The story and pictures are here https://justtshirtquilts.com/sailing-bowling-race…I don’t cry much, but this really touched me. I hope her feedback is helpful to you if you’re trying to decide where to have your quilt made.
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Kyle is a wonderful woman full of empathy, love, and thoughtfulness which is reflected in how she runs her incredible business. Kyle is embodying the American small business dream. Just T-shirt Quilts is a sustainable business that repurposes existing textile materials and morphs them into something new and beautiful while employing women of color and putting something uniquely special in the world.
Kyle builds a strong level of trust with her customers to even have a thriving business. She approaches people with empathy to understand the materials that turn their cloth memories into beautifully handcrafted pieces of art in the form of a quilt.
Kyle helped me navigate how to best honor my dad and I didn’t like the traditional square T-shirt quilt pattern I had seen so much of online. Kyle was excited to try something different and had so many creative and thoughtful ideas to approach piecing together the fabric in a unique and modern style.
I left my dad’s shirts from his time in the boating industry which was also his lifelong side hustle, his volunteer firefighter days, his bowling league days, his soccer and band dad days, and everything in between that was him in the form of clothing with a stranger that had built enough trust with me to part ways with these material things 5 years after he passed too suddenly.
Over a year, Kyle had taken digital images of my shirts and had visualized what the hypothetical designs would look like and we designed one side at a time. She didn’t make any cuts until I had approved her design and made me feel so safe with each decision that had to be made. She guided me to choose the thread color, accent fabric, and the many other small choices that needed to be made. She was good with managing my expectations and I had the most delightful experience as her customer. She would provide updates on the progress and show me progress pictures all along the way.
This turned out better than I could have imagined and I’m so thankful for all of the love and work that went into this piece that I will treasure forever.
