HOW DO YOU USE YOUR QUILTS?
#55
Many of my quilts are hung on the wall, as I have very high ceilings and lots of wall space to display them. I also have many lap quilts laying on the furniture, and others given away as gifts (baby quilts, etc).
#56
I never realized there was a difference between a beadspread and a blanket. I use mine as a blanket and I expect everyone that receives my quilts to do the same. Whether or not they do, I don't know but that's what they are made for.
#57
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: La Verne, CA
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I usually give mine away. I tell the new owner that this quilt is made with love and prayers and needs to be used and loved.
My Grand Children know that they can use them anyway they want.
If it wears out I can make another.
I do have one quilt that is not allowed to be used. It is the quilt that my DH grandmother made for him. It is almost 70 years old.
My sons have told me that they want it because it is the softest quilt ever. But it is falling apart so that is why it is off limits.
But the rest need to be used so they can be very soft from being loved.
My Grand Children know that they can use them anyway they want.
If it wears out I can make another.
I do have one quilt that is not allowed to be used. It is the quilt that my DH grandmother made for him. It is almost 70 years old.
My sons have told me that they want it because it is the softest quilt ever. But it is falling apart so that is why it is off limits.
But the rest need to be used so they can be very soft from being loved.
#58
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Masonic Home. Union City, Ca.
Posts: 311
To be used as wanted. I like it when a baby blanket/quilt is given to the one it was made for and allowed to cuddle, drag around and find his/her comfort zone. Yes a lot of work and love goes into them but not just for show.
#59
Originally Posted by farmerswife
I use them for bedspreads, blankets.. one I only use, that my mil made, when I am sick.. I also have one that my huby's great aunt made and it is on the wall. She made it around 1930. Others always adorn beds, bench seats, hope chest etc. I love to see them and use them, to be able to touch them.. bring to minds eyes who made them with loving hands whether I knew them or not.
Has anybody done it this way or am I the last to learn these things as usual? LOL
I know most of you are sweltering in heat but here in northwest Washington state, we have a cpl. days of heat & we use fans then a cpl. days of cold when I have to use heat. Today it's cold & raining. No time for a duvet anyway.
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