rebeerose

granpee there are times when I want to quit as well, but this is what I do, I can no longer work out of home because of medical problems, so I started to make quilts to pass my time now I make them for family and take a few orders now and then. I made to full size for my parents a few years ago, my Mom had to sleep in a different room from Dad because of a medical problem, so I made a quilt for her bed cause she complained she was cold at nite, and then later on on Dad said his bed didn't look right without one on his. So now that they are back in the same bed, every winter my Mom puts my quilts out one on their bed and one on the geust bed. Mom protects those quilts, like they were gold. In the summer they are put up carefully and stored until cold weather gets here and then they come out again to go on the beds. Your sister loved your quilt very much! And treasured it till the end. When a quilt is tattered and used with love, then the person who received that quilt treasured it, cause that is why quilts are made to be used and treasured till its falling apart.

granpee

thank you for your post. you are right, she did love it. we had a lot of competition with each other as teen-agers but right before she died, we became close. i'm glad my daughter retrieved the quilt. i remember finishing the quilt as i traveled from my home in north carolina to ky and i finished it as soon as we drove to my hometown. it was her Christmas prewent. i'm sorry, y'all, for making this subject into a sad one

nellie

i,ve always gotton a wow so much work and a big hugs and kisses a and then oh how beauitful and then a big thank you all in that order

Maureen B

I have that problem with several people and it is not just quilts. I can not tell you how many gifts I have given without receiving a Thank you card. I have been to weddings and have not received Thank you cards for gifts given. I know they received the gift because the checks were cashed.

quilt-n-girl

YES!, I just about know why also, it's because you can go to some stores, and buy hand quilted quilts for as little as $15.00 around here. I don't know where they are getting the fabric, and getting it hand quilted, and make any money off of a quilt for that price. I went to a craft show, and there were two ladies selling these $15.00 quilts for $65.00 a piece. I know they were from that store, because they still had them in the bags that they came from the store in. The quilts were the same colors, same patterns, and every thing.
So, to answer your question, I know that people do not know how much time and money is put into a homemade quilt, or any item for that matter.
The only people that knows are true quilters like you and me. I am sorry that it keeps happening to you, did you tell every one that you made the quilts? If you didn't, maybe they thought that you bought the quilts.
I made my daughter a quilt for her wedding, and when I asked her if they were enjoying the quilt, she told me she was afaid it would get messed up. She told me it is still in the bag in a closet. I told her it was made for them to use. Oh well, what can we do? Just keep making the quilts, just because we love doing it.

Fairway

I did my first quilt five years ago and it was Storm at Sea. I took the class at Joann' and I thought that I would finish it in the class. What a surprise! I started in April and didn't finish until November. Each night I would go to my sewing room and sew away. One night my husband asked me how much longer. I said that I didn't know. So he equated it with baseball, asking me what inning was I in; I told him that I was in spring training. I gave the quilt to our son who lives in Florida and I thought that it was appropriate because he was near the ocean.

Barbara
Fallston, Maryland

rebeerose

Maureen B, my Gramma used to say if you don't send a Thank you card or say thank you in some way, then you are ingrateful and should not receive a gift. I think that people who don't do this just weren't raised right. They weren't taught the values that need to be taught. It is so sad that this is what this world is coming to... Thankless!! But don't give up, do the quilts cause you like to do them. Not for the Thanks! The joy is in the creation of the work of art. And know that you will get your reward later in the here after.

estherblair

When i started quilting, i quilted a top my mother in law had made and boy did i quilt it (Hand quilted ) and it was really pretty small squares old
fabrics. so ihad a neice just married and gave it too her at christmas a few years ago and told her it was pieced by her grandmother ,(Passed)
I really thought she would be happy with it she smiled and thats all.Never once did she say thank for the first time in my life i wanted too take a gift back she didn't know how prescious that quilt is. I peiced the blks she had made probably 2 months work plus how it made me feel to finish mom's work.Maybe some day it will dawn on her. and she will enjoy it. well boy did i just rant. thats life i guess. :D :D :D :D

teetee

no the memory will be forever embeded in you mind.

teetee

She obviously has no idea of the love, and labor that goes into. That is a shame. My mother quilted, I was 8 yrs old when she passed, I think that is one of the reasons it is special to me. With most gifts I never care what they do with them once they leave my hands, but, quilts, now that is a different story. I have nothing left from my mom, just the memories, but i would just kill for one of her quilts.