Quilting - Purpose?
#101
I make functional quilts that will be used and loved. I am a compulsive crafter/quilter and have always been. I am also one of those that needs to do something for my sanity, so it definitely meets a need in me. Whom I am making the quilt for is important for me. I get great satisfaction knowing the quilts I made are well loved. I also feel a sense that hopefully some of these quilts will outlive me. Anything else I do in life seems so temporary. So I am hoping some quilts will be around for my great grand children. I also enjoy teaching my children or others to quilt. Making donation quilts is also very important to me. I am a busy mama and I can do something even if it is in the middle of the night to give to others.
#103
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Manchester, NH
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I quilt because it's fun, but mostly I like to think about how much comfort and sense of being cared about a quilt will bring to someone else. On the news just last night we saw a report of victims of an awful apartment house fire, out in the cold with all their possessions lost, and I turned to my DH and said, "They look like they could use a quilt". Obviously they need a lot more than a quilt now, but they surely could use some comforting too.
#104
I almost never know what I'm going to do with a quilt when I start it. Sometimes people see it and want it so I give it to them. Sometimes it's for a gift. Most of the time I make it because I want to make it. Just for the fun of it.
#106
I'm relatively new to quilting (4 years) and have yet to finish a quilt for myself. So far I've done baby quilts for friends/relatives, a house warming quilt, a few table runners as gifts, several bargello wall hangings (all through a class) and a slew of UFO's. My original draw to quilting wasn't to make something for myself, just to create. I'm an art major turned accountant and I was lacking creativity in my life - quilting is a good outlet.
#109
I do it just so that the people I love can wrap themselves in warmth and be reminded that they are loved every day.
Lol@ quilt shows. I'll leave that to the pros, who have my undying respect.
Lol@ quilt shows. I'll leave that to the pros, who have my undying respect.
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