<p>"My wife is nuts about quilting and has put together a number of 'graduation' quilts for others. The quilts usually consist of the recipients old T-Shirts that had events they attended or groups they were involved in as well as photographs that she transfers to fabric highlighting the person's high school or K-12 years. They really can turn out quite nicely and become items with a lot of sentimental value. Another thing she's done is to create a themed quilt for the person based on their interests."</p>
<p>Just finished the top to Part 3 of D's 3 quilt series of "lifetime" shirts. I still have to do 1 and 2.</p>
<p>Part 1: 30 preK-8 shirts
Part 2: 16 race shirts from hs days
Part 3: 30 hs club, team, GS shirts</p>
<p>Part 3 went to school to be a backdrop in a hs retrospective. She wanted to show it off even though I haven't quilted it yet.</p>
<p>I assume if your child is invited to a graduation party (even if it's their own classmate) that they would bring a gift in that case, though, wouldn't they?</p>
<p>In my hometown, basically every senior has 2 or 3 parties thrown for them by friends of their families, and the only person to bring a gift is the hosts. Students really do not give gifts to other graduates, and you are not supposed to send announcments to other families with graduates. These are all just the non-stated rules. Even with all these I was given so much stuff, and so much cash.</p>
<p>Yesterday I got a really cute graduation gift... it was a hamper filled with all kinds of things I'm going to need. There are towels, faceclothes, shampoo, conditioner, laundry stuff, and a few more things that I can't remember right now. I thought it was a really cute and practical gift!</p>