We bought a couple of wool blankets for emergency preparedness purposes. They're great because wool is incredibly warm and stays so even while wet, but there are two downsides to wool: it's itchy and you can't wash it. Gary had the idea of doing a sort of quasi-quilt covering for them, so I hauled out a bunch of old T-shirts, cut them up, and sewed them together to make this:
Great idea, right? WRONG. Old T-shirts are the worst (the worst!) to work with. Never again.