Old hen

Each year I'm making one quilt to be given to a brother or sister at Christmastime, name drawn out of a hat! One year after I'd had numerous health issues for 2 years, a SIL asked if I could just make all of them right away.................just in case I didn't make it long enough for her to get hers. It was said in fun, but showed me that someone liked what I was doing. Some are not so gracious, but I just give what I want to those who want it. I enjoy making each and every quilt, but would never give one to someone who didn't want it, or who said they didn't like quilts. That's why we find such great things at thrift shops!

Quiltinvaca

My daughter will beg/steal/take anything I make but my sons really don't care. The younger son likes the quilts, yet he lets his dogs play on them. The older son tells me that when I make something he likes, he'll ask for it. In 20 years, he's never asked!

I make quilts just cause I like shopping for fabric, having lunch out while shopping, going through stacks of books and magazines looking for patterns, dreaming about, thinking about, and pondering what I'll make. I get a rush while fondling expensive fabric. I make quilts just cause!

Annaquilts

I am sorry. It sounds like you show your love by making quilts and some of your family members are not into it. Thankfully for me my husband and most of my children love quilts. I think there are some on my husbands side who don't but to each his own. I hope your boys like your quilts. That would matter the most to me.

)))HUGS((((

Quiltinvaca

Hey - I take it as an "honor" when the quilt is thrown across any piece of furniture - especially in the living room. Guests don't always get into a bedroom and by placing your quilt in the living room, she gave it a "place of honor".

bonnyh

Oh yeah - and I know - when you give it, you have to let it go. I gave my daughter in law a quilt. On a visit to her home, she proudly exclaimed ' look at the bed I made for the dog '. I told her I couldn't see it because the crate it was in was covered by a quilt I had made her. She hasn't received one since. Sorry.

svenskaflicka1

my impulse would be to make a couple of donation quilts, and on the label note that they were made with love in honor of your mom and/or sis, and take a photo of the label for mom/sis. then, give the quilts with that love to an organization that will put them in hands that will love them. win/win! you get to create, you get to "give" them to mom/sis, and someone who could use the "hug" will get that quilt to warm them.

Slow2Sew

While visiting my aunt-by-marriage I noticed one of my DGM's hand-pieced quilts laying on her dirty carport for a doggie blanket. I was furious! DH escorted me home quickly because he knew I wouldn't keep my mouth shut!

charity-crafter

Most of my family see it as a waste of time. When you can buy cute quilts at the store for a fraction of the costs of a hand made quilt.

Plus you don't have the guilt if you want to change your decor and donate the quilt you bought to Goodwill or use it a drop cloth while painting the house.

My sister is the only one who really appreciates hand made items. That's because she does cross stitch.

My DM made qults for my brothers years back and found 1 in the trunk of the car under his greasy tool and the other brother used it in the garage to lay on when it was working under the car to to keep the engine liquids from staining the concrete.
Mom was heartbroken and never made another quilt again.

I made a couple of photos quilts for the same 2 brothers, using the original style of transfering photocopies of photos. You used "Picure This" transfer medium where you smeared this glue like mixture on the photocopy of the picture, pressed it to the fabric and then 24hr later you soaked it with water to remove the paper backing of the photo. Each photo took along time. Never heard anything about those quilts. Never seen them in either of their homes. I don't visit often so I tend not to remember to ask when I do.

lalaland

I have a very small family, there's just my brother and me and my SIL is a gifted quilter so I obviously don't make quilts for them. If I make a quilt and a friend likes it enough to want it, I gift it to them. When I end up with a bunch of "homeless" quilts, I send them to my husband's nephew's wife. My DH has a huge family so she offers the quilts to family members first, then she finds homes for the rest through her church and her work. She loves getting my packages of quilts, and often other fun projects I've made, and working together we know the projects are going to to homes where they are wanted and appreciated.

mic-pa

My whole family loves my quilts, wether it be scrappy or planned. They are always asking who gets the next one. They all have several so I have been doing charity quilts and quilts for people with terminal cancer. Some people even ask if they can be on my Christmas List LOL as that is when I give most of them away.