kudoos… there is this website adn company called u-blanket… i believe the website is www.u-blanket.com and it is a webiste that creates unique blankets from old t-shirts…. was on teh treadmaill last sunday and saw on MSMBC… an interview for the business and about fell off the treadmill! A Tender Loving Care Service Marion Gregory Director 239-598-1515 Mary Jean Ziska Assistant Director 239-287-2294
believe it or not… i actually had an idea like this in college.. and after college i even started putting together the t-shirts i had collected from all over the world and from date functions…
here are the emails i sent and they sent back…. can’t wait to actually do something with all the t-shirts i have already put together and have a finished product…
From: Brett Snowden <brett@ublanket.com>
To: whatabtmary@yahoo.com
Cc: John Murch <john@ublanket.com>
Sent: Mon, January 17, 2011 10:37:44 PM
Subject: Re: New Message from uBlanket
Hi Mary,
Thanks for taking an interest in our blankets, that’s pretty awesome that you’ve been all over the world, those shirts will undoubtedly make a great blanket!
To address your questions – your shirts and blanket are shipped only by UPS, never the postal service so you’ll have full access to the tracking information via our website at all times. When you order you’ll be sent a link to log in to our website where you can view the status of your order and shipment tracking info. Additionally, your shirts have to be signed for, UPS cannot leave them outside our office of no one is there. One we have the shirts they are kept in a sealed tote separate from all other orders. Our internal policies require that only one tote at a time ever be open by our employees, thus eliminating the chance that shirts could be mixed or lost with other orders. When your blanket is complete it is stored in the tote until shipment. When we ship you the blanket it is first put in a waterproof bag then boxed, in case the package were to see rain during delivery. We’ve never lost a shirt in all the 100’s of blankets we’ve made. While UPS is obviously very good at what they do, we could arrange for additional insurance from UPS if you feel that it is necessary with your order. They include $100.00 of insurance as standard and i believe its about $3.00 per additional $100.00. We can also ship your finished blanket so that it requires a signature for delivery as well.
The panels on our blankets are about 15″x15″. A bit smaller if you order a border on your blanket. So if the shirts you’ve already cut are still large enough we will simply use them as normal. If they’re already smaller than our standard sizes, we can sew them directly to blank panels first, then sew the whole blanket together. Either way we can work with what you’ve got 
Please let me know if you have any other questions. Sorry for the long response, but we take the safety of our customers shirts very very seriously.
Thanks,
Brett
I actually thought of this idea in college and started to put together a blanket or quilt with date function shirts and i had the unique opportunity to travel extensively al over the world so got to collet shirts from all different countires as well while iwas growing up. I have a few questions…
First, what is yor provision for the safety fo the shirts to be used in your blanket? I have some one of a kind shirts from many countires and would not want them to be lost in the process… can you guarantee their “safety” and also, I haved tried to put some of the shirts together in the form of a quilt or blanket.. can you work with a partially finished product? thank you for yoru kind attention to thiese questions… sincerely, Mary jean ziska email:whatabtmary@yahoo.com
Thursday January 20th @6:30pm( U-blanket ….great idea.. I actually thought of it .. after college!).
Hi Brett, January 18th 2011
Thank you for your extensive response to my questions. I am very pleased at how careful you are with your finished product and it sounds great!! I cant wait to get started…
Did i mention that i saw your program on msnbc( this past sunday morning ( early morning) great interview…. great marketing .. and like i mentioned before .. great idea… have you marketed to all the greek systems in colleges all over the usa? I mentioned before that i didn’t know what to do with left over date function t-shirts and liked keeping them as menento…. that is what made me start putting together my own blanket…. ages ago…( 1985ish) . jsut thought if you havent tapped that market you might want to try… lots of disposiable income…and if i remember correctly the t-shirts were a big “MUST” for your date… and it’s a great keepsake… kudoos for doing such a great job!
Sincerely
Mary Jean ziska
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 7:09 PM, <whatabtmary@yahoo.com> wrote: