12/25/2023 0 Comments That thing you do t shirt![]() ![]() While some people might have a bucket list of things they’d like to do with their lives, Sara instead prefers to keep a list of the things she has left to do. Each shirt is another event, another year, another victory. The quilts, and the shirts they came from, also are a reminder of how far she’s come and how fortunate Sara has been since her first diagnosis in 2006. I’ve made them blankets before with their own t-shirts, but I really wanted this to be a legacy ‑ that’s kind of all I could think about,” she says. “I always think about what the fairness is, because it’s a very personal project, and I’d like both of my daughters to have a quilt from me. Both feature 24 colorful patches, some with embroidery, and are large enough to cover a bed. Sara’s first quilt was made four years ago recently, thanks to the ever-growing collection, she had a second quilt made. I got my t-shirts together, bought a brand-new pair of scissors and just started cutting,” she says. “You have to create panels and there’s so many panels they need based on whether you’re doing a lap blanket or a queen or king-sized blanket. Sara still had to do some lifting before sending her shirts off to be made into a quilt. I kept saying to my husband, David, that I really wanted, somehow, to either become a seamstress, which would never happen, or I needed to hire someone locally to help make a t-shirt quilt,” she says. ![]() “Project Repat is a company that makes t-shirt quilts. But when Sara learned about a company called Project Repat, she found a solution. The collection of t-shirts, just sitting around the house, seemed kind of silly. A friend gave her a shirt in honor of Sara’s sister, Lise, after Lise was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Each June, another shirt or two from the Ride for Roswell. Each October, more pink shirts would arrive. She was gifted shirts by family, friends and well-wishers. Each year during the Ride for Roswell, even when she was a volunteer at the event, Sara picks up an orange shirt, the color symbolizing survivorship, in addition to a shirt indicating she’s a survivor not just of breast cancer (pink) but of metastatic melanoma (black). Working at Roswell Park also means adding Ride for Roswell and Corporate Challenge shirts to the collection each year, in addition to shirts handed out on Employee Appreciation Day. Now a four-time cancer survivor and working at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center as a coordinator in the 11 Day Power Play Cancer Resource Center, Sara found the shirts piling up, first in her bedroom and then in a guest room closet. But I can’t throw away anything cancer-related, I feel like it’s bad mojo. “I don’t wear t-shirts very often unless they’re oversized because I am very short, so t-shirts are the least comfortable thing I can even imagine wearing. ![]() “Because it was breast cancer, everything was pink,” she says. But somehow, she still amassed quite the collection of commemorative shirts from the time she was first diagnosed with breast cancer 18 years ago. Sara Sade will be the first to say she doesn’t wear T-shirts often, preferring instead looser, more flowing and comfy clothes. ![]()
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