Once I Run Out of Relatives Who Do I Make Quilts For?
03-07-2013, 11:47 AM
#71
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I've given to friends and relatives. I've donated. I'm saving them to pass them down to my kids and future grand kids. And I make some "just in case". For example I made a rag quilt with appliqued Teddy Bears on it. Didn't have a person in mind for it. That was a year ago. Last week I found a sick little boy that had a page on Facebook. (you know how that goes.. a friend shares it and you see it on your feeds) He touched my heart and then next day that quilt was in the mail to him! Sometimes they find their own home.
03-07-2013, 11:51 AM
#72
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Are you kidding???? i want a quilt in every room in the house (wall hangings, table runners...etc). oh and Christmas quilt and easter quilt and let's not talk about bed quilts...i am on my second for my daughter alone as she likes to change with the mood and i am working on a king size for me and have at least three more in my head and i want to change....oh and i do want for all our beds Christmas quilts (and THAT is my mood).....it goes on and on don't worry jusy keep stitching ;-)
But I love quilts and am the same way.
03-07-2013, 12:33 PM
#74
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Iowa
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Haha, you can send one to me! 
I know there is a group on here that exchanges completed quilts. My problem is I have had to stop calling myself a quilter! Why? You may ask? Because I continue to make top after top and never get any quilted. So I guess now I should just call myself a piecer. Lol! I have never machine quilted and am so afraid of ruining my lovely tops and I hand quilt waaaaaay to slow. What to do?
I know there is a group on here that exchanges completed quilts. My problem is I have had to stop calling myself a quilter! Why? You may ask? Because I continue to make top after top and never get any quilted. So I guess now I should just call myself a piecer. Lol! I have never machine quilted and am so afraid of ruining my lovely tops and I hand quilt waaaaaay to slow. What to do?
03-07-2013, 12:45 PM
#75
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Iowa
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My grandma made a quilt for each of her grandchildren and each of her great grandchildren and even a few extra. It has been really nice giving a quilt to a great grand child who wasn't even born yet before she passed away. She made those extras exactly for that purpose. Kinda neat!
03-07-2013, 12:55 PM
#76
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 16
The Twilight Brigade.....I just found out about this volunteer group who has never had any one donate a quilt to them that is until I just did 3. They take care of our veterans in WDC. Just email Jill King at [email protected] and tell her Cece sent you to her.
03-07-2013, 01:02 PM
#77
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: So CA
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A nearby hospital would probably be happy to have quilts from you. Contact the Volunteer office to get their requirements. I have been doing this for 2 years and I get to make all the quilts I want and they get good quilts.
03-07-2013, 01:36 PM
#79
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Central VA
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I make quilts for those who admire my work. I don't sell them, only give them to those who want them, friends and friends of those friends. Plus, I have many lying around my house on beds, four quilt racks, table toppers and my beds. My girls are going to have a ball going through all of them after I am gone. Of course, they each have some as well as the grand children. I just love making them for what ever reason.
03-07-2013, 01:43 PM
#80
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Central VA
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"If you sew it, they will come"!
In my experience, if you keep enough quilts out and visible they will gain admirers, and whenever someone gets attached to one I get a huge kick out of saying, "Well, since you really like that one, why don't you keep it? That one is an extra. No, really, please take it, so I will have an excuse to make another one!" and watching people go through the stages of disbelief, shyness about "taking" something, then finally excitement and snuggly happiness as they cuddle their new quilt.
There are only a very few quilts that are mine permanently. The rest, I'm just 'breaking in' until their true owner comes along. LOL
I learned this from my grandma, by the way. She was always very generous with her quilts; many, many, MANY people ended up with her quilts, not just family. She passed away 10 years ago now, and I STILL run into friends of the family that tell me how their quilt is still in use and still loved. Sometimes I almost think Gram enjoyed giving the quilts away more than making them, but then she made SO MANY she kind of had to give them out or her house wouldn't have had space to move in it!
In my experience, if you keep enough quilts out and visible they will gain admirers, and whenever someone gets attached to one I get a huge kick out of saying, "Well, since you really like that one, why don't you keep it? That one is an extra. No, really, please take it, so I will have an excuse to make another one!" and watching people go through the stages of disbelief, shyness about "taking" something, then finally excitement and snuggly happiness as they cuddle their new quilt.
There are only a very few quilts that are mine permanently. The rest, I'm just 'breaking in' until their true owner comes along. LOL
I learned this from my grandma, by the way. She was always very generous with her quilts; many, many, MANY people ended up with her quilts, not just family. She passed away 10 years ago now, and I STILL run into friends of the family that tell me how their quilt is still in use and still loved. Sometimes I almost think Gram enjoyed giving the quilts away more than making them, but then she made SO MANY she kind of had to give them out or her house wouldn't have had space to move in it!
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