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07-21-2011, 11:20 AM
#21
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I haven't been quilting long. But last fall I started my avatar, just because it seemed like a cool looking quilt. I was asked many times who is it for, what are you going to do with it. My answer was, I don't know I just want to make it.
As I was nearing the end of the hand quilting process, my nephew had just finished Air Force basic training asked if he would ever get a quilt I made. I asked if he liked the one I was working on and he loved it. So a home was found. Since then, I have found that whenever I start one just because it finds a home by the time it is done.
As I was nearing the end of the hand quilting process, my nephew had just finished Air Force basic training asked if he would ever get a quilt I made. I asked if he liked the one I was working on and he loved it. So a home was found. Since then, I have found that whenever I start one just because it finds a home by the time it is done.
07-21-2011, 11:30 AM
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SVS your hubby doesn't seem to understand that sometimes a quilt isn't being made for someone specific but rather just "because." For me, it's a matter of liking a particular fabric print, wanting to test out a new pattern or sometimes because I need to make one (like a baby's quilt for a gift). Whatever the reason, the need to want to quilt is a personal choice like a hobby and not necessarily because you have someone that you MUST give it to before starting the project.
07-21-2011, 12:45 PM
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Originally Posted by cowpie2
I haven't been quilting long. But last fall I started my avatar, just because it seemed like a cool looking quilt. I was asked many times who is it for, what are you going to do with it. My answer was, I don't know I just want to make it.
As I was nearing the end of the hand quilting process, my nephew had just finished Air Force basic training asked if he would ever get a quilt I made. I asked if he liked the one I was working on and he loved it. So a home was found. Since then, I have found that whenever I start one just because it finds a home by the time it is done.
As I was nearing the end of the hand quilting process, my nephew had just finished Air Force basic training asked if he would ever get a quilt I made. I asked if he liked the one I was working on and he loved it. So a home was found. Since then, I have found that whenever I start one just because it finds a home by the time it is done.
07-21-2011, 02:14 PM
#29
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Location: Mount Pleasant, TX
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I guess I'm one of the lucky ones - DH always praises what I do and wants to hang them up or do whatever it takes to get it to where it goes . . . if it is going somehwere - he always does whatever it takes to get it there !
07-21-2011, 05:04 PM
#30
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Nononono, it's not selfish!!! Every one who has a hobby does it for her/his own joy. They don't ask men who 'play' with electric trainsets why they buy another train LOL.
I know wih quilting it's fun to make a quilt, but it's a lot of fun to enjoy it too. You can put it in your (bed) room and change the quilts after a while, put these in a closet and take some others out, so your room loks a bit different every time you do this, esp when you add some other items in the same color range.
I know wih quilting it's fun to make a quilt, but it's a lot of fun to enjoy it too. You can put it in your (bed) room and change the quilts after a while, put these in a closet and take some others out, so your room loks a bit different every time you do this, esp when you add some other items in the same color range.
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