polite moratorium on sewing gifts
#22
This is why I love amazon, and gift cards. You can always share you list on amazon through email anytime during the year. You can also add things from other site to your amazon wish list and it will direct them there
#23
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Join Date: May 2013
Location: Ballwin, MO
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It sounds as though the big problem is not the fabric per se, but the feelings it creates for you -- of pressure and obligation. I'd suggest you sit down and have a serious talk with your wife. Tell her exactly how people giving you fabric and patterns makes you feel. Tell her the feelings you have about being given fabric are threatening to ruin quilting for you. Make it about you and your feelings, not about her/your friends' actions. Talk together about hints she might drop to friends that you prefer choosing your own fabric and projects.
If it were me, I would keep it and not worry about it (if I had the space), or give it away and not worry about it (if I didn't).
If it were me, I would keep it and not worry about it (if I had the space), or give it away and not worry about it (if I didn't).
#24
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: England Alton Towers
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Why not ask for tokens I in order to make sure the fabric and patterns all co-ordinate to produce a marvellous quilt.
especially as your stack is small and you are finding their kind offers difficult to match up with anything .
especially as your stack is small and you are finding their kind offers difficult to match up with anything .
#25
I accept everything given to me. It then belongs to me to do with as I wish - donate or make - end of problem. One of the nicest gifts was from a work colleague. He obviously observed the colours I used in my quilts and bought a similar range. Perhaps you could work on a few projects in the presence of others and they could see your preferences?
I would not discourage donations as they may stop soon enough as it is.
I would not discourage donations as they may stop soon enough as it is.
#26
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Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: northern lower Michigan
Posts: 225
I agree with you. That should make everyone know and understand.
#27
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Normal, IL
Posts: 563
Every year for Christmas my DH gives me $100 to spend at one shop and a gift certificate for the other shop. He also pays for the two quilt camps I go to every year including the extra nightand the payment for a mystery quilt in September's camp. That s $282 for July and $392 for September. I say he's a keeper.
#28
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: By the beach
Posts: 597
If you have too much fabric, why not donate some to Project Linus or a church group or perhaps a senior center group that makes quilts for charity. I took some fabrics that were given to me to a quilting class and people enjoyed getting the free fabric.
Don't feel obligated to make quilts for the people who gave you the fabrics you don't like. I can see where that would take the joy out of quilting. This is supposed to be fun.
#30
Thank you for your thoughtful gift, my dear friends and family have blessed me with so many tips, tools, patterns and fabric that I will have to live to be 100 to use it all. As I progress and become more skilled I will need to choose the materials that will support my growing skills and interest. Watch for my progress and you never know when my talent will appear on your bed or wall as a quilt created just for you.
When you have persistent givers, bring them in to your quilt "studio" and show them what you planning and the intricacies of planning/creating a good looking quilt. Either they with get over whelmed, bored or become a quilter!
When you have persistent givers, bring them in to your quilt "studio" and show them what you planning and the intricacies of planning/creating a good looking quilt. Either they with get over whelmed, bored or become a quilter!
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