A North Carolina woman wanted to have a quilter make a quilt out of T-shirts that she and her late husband bought while traveling during their married years.
One of those shirts, according to The Roanoke Times in Roanoke, Virginia, comes from Utah’s Great Salt Lake.
Victoria Thacker came up with the idea the summer after her husband, Mike Thacker, died of esophageal cancer, The Roanoke Times reported.
A Virginia woman has decided to make a quilt made of t-shirts that she and her late husband bought while traveling during their married years. | Dustin Morris, Wikimedia Commons
Thacker said the T-shirts, which include ones from Hawaii, Acadia National Park and the Grand Canyon, show how far the couple traveled together during their 43 years of marriage.
Victoria and her daughter, Alexa, reached out to a quilter for help in August 2014. Just a few months later, the quilter said she’d have it done by Christmas.
That was one of the last times they heard from the quilter.
Last Wednesday the quilter finally reached out to the family by email, apologizing profusely.
“I have planned to return the shirts to you so many times, but I just felt so much shame at not completing it, and then the shame just kept growing the longer it got,” the quilter wrote.
But the Victoria Thacker still haven’t received the shirts yet.
“My husband used to tell me I was the most gullible person in the world,” Victoria said. “I used to tell him he was the most cynical. Maybe that’s why the marriage lasted.”
Read more at The Roanoke Times.