The process is simple: Buy your quilt on this site. Send in your treasured shirts, we make a beautiful quilt from them and send it back to you. Now your closet is organized, you've avoided adding textile waste to our landfills, and you've got your memories wrapped around you, all warm and snuggly. Total win-win.
Seriously. Asking your grandmother to make a quilt for you? She’s got better things to do. She’s hanging out at the casino. She’s on a cruise. She may even be rollerblading. Who knows? Let Covered Custom Quilt Co.™ do the heavy lifting for you and let Grams enjoy her life.
Covered's business model has been to utilize your leftover scrap material further, upcycling it into sturdy, comfortable, brand-new, freshly-laundered quilts for donation to extreme-weather and women’ shelters. But now there is a region of our shared North American-funded continent that is in need of aid, as well as a Canadian/American gesture of friendship as soon as possible- The Refugee Detention Centres along the US-Mexican border. “We’re currently accelerating production of quilts for distribution at Refugee Camps. This issue is far from over. Our customers are able to not only get their own custom upcycled quilt, but also give something back- Almost all of the excess usable material, (backs, sides, graphic remnants) are then remanufactured, using our own Canadian labour, to be...
OK. Let's have an honest talk about where we are as human beings. We've been doing awesome as a species right up to around this point. We've created great works of art. Incredible masterpieces of architecture. Empathy and democracy for more than 62% of the world's population. We've vaccinated. We've created industries. But now we've got a problem: The plastics in our oceans, our throwaway culture, our overflowing landfills; it's time to take a step back. What humans are best at, and what we've been doing for a millennia, is using our tools and textiles to the fullest: We're good at saving things. We're good at re-using things. We've just got to make it popular again. When you have your shirts repurposed into...
