Giving quilts
06-10-2014, 04:18 PM
#12
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Join Date: Nov 2011
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I make quilts for me because I love to make quilts. When an opportunity comes along to give one a new home, it is sent with love and off it goes to a new place. I never fret about it again. I would never be able to gift a quilt if I thought that way.
I never concern myself with wether a quilt will be liked or not. I am not responsible for other peoples feelings towards my work.
I don't believe I was ment to be permanently atached to my quilts. My love and enjoyment is in the making of the quilt, not what happens to it one month from nowor five years in the future.
If one of my quilts has kept a dog warm, my job is done!
peace
I never concern myself with wether a quilt will be liked or not. I am not responsible for other peoples feelings towards my work.
I don't believe I was ment to be permanently atached to my quilts. My love and enjoyment is in the making of the quilt, not what happens to it one month from nowor five years in the future.
If one of my quilts has kept a dog warm, my job is done!
peace
06-10-2014, 05:04 PM
#13
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Tennessee
Posts: 1,501
Right now, I am making quilts for my daughter's three foster children. The oldest child likes purple so I try to make her quilts that have purple and lavender in them, the middle child is autistic and she likes anything I make for her. I make her quilts with children's fabrics like The Three Bears, ABCs, Russian dolls, etc. for the 5 year old, I love making story book quilts like Green Eggs and Ham and the Very a Hungry Caterpillar. I have a quilt for her, with a children's fish design and one with snowmen, ready to send to the LAQ. I want the girls to have lots of quilts so that they can change them frequently. One of my daughters lives here. She comes over and looks at my quilts. I know that she likes only traditional quilts. Any modern quilts I make, I know I can give to my sister. My other daughter likes any quilt I give her. I know the colors my grandsons like. I make them quilts with golf fabric and some with fishing fabric. I give most of the quilts I like best to my granddaughter. I make most of my quilts for these people. As a gift to anyone else, I find out the colors they want. I made a quilt for my best friend who said she liked pink and green. I thought it was one of the prettiest quilts I had ever made. She has never said anything about it. I wonder if she even uses it. On the other hand, I made a quilt with music fabric for my granddaughter to give her piano teacher. That lady really appreciated her quilt.
06-10-2014, 07:35 PM
#14
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Kilgore Tx
Posts: 1,883
When I am making a quilt for a specific person, I try to find out what colors or style they like. If for a baby, I ask what color they are doing for the baby and what theme but generally I pick the pattern I will do. Everyone so far has liked what I have done for them.
06-10-2014, 08:32 PM
#15
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Florida
Posts: 17,636
I really struggle with this! I usually have a person in mind when I start making a quilt, and usually about halfway through making it I panic and convince myself that they'll hate it! It's silly of me really but I just can't stop myself! Part of my problem is that I like to make the quilts as a surprise, whereas if the person knew I was making it for them I could just ask them!
I have grown and married kids that I have asked about colors etc. and then went and bought
fabrics, only to hear, "Oh, our room isn't that color anymore...OR...well, when i said red, I meant a dark red like that new car that's out...fiesta sunrise fireglow...see what I mean?
06-10-2014, 08:43 PM
#16
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Somewhere Out There
Posts: 376
For me it is a mixture of many things. Sometimes I have a specific person in mind that I would like to make a quilt for ( a birthday , anniversary, major surgery , etc ) and I choose a pattern that I like and suits that person ( modern or traditional ), and do it in colors I think they would like. Sometimes I just see a pattern or a fabric that I just LOVE and start making it, usually as I am working on it someone will be in my thoughts alot, and I take it as the quilt telling me who it wants to go to, and that is where it goes ! Other times I just make whatever makes ME happy, and when its finished either it goes on my bed, or it goes in the " Emergency Gift Box " for those occasions that pop up unexpectedly , or that I simply did not have time to make something specific for ( unexpected surgery, last minue birthday gifts ect ) The box has not just quilts but bags and pillows as I make them , and I grab something suitable from the box as the need arrives !
06-10-2014, 08:56 PM
#18
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Posts: 574
I mostly make quilts for family, I have had 4 daughters and 3 sons. All of my daughter's have received a specific quilt to their licking. I try hard not to accept orders from outside the family for quilts for hire! They are just too hard to satisfy in my opinion.
06-11-2014, 03:36 AM
#20
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Maryland
Posts: 2,614
I love making (and giving away!) baby quilts. Babies are so uncritical and they can spit up, cry into, and do those less than desirable things that babies do without fear on their quilt ( and I make sure to tell the mom so.) I sew primarily for family and they get what they get and I know that they are used, and I'm right there with whoever said if the dog is warm, I've done my job. I occasionally will give a full-size quilt as a wedding gift in which case I generally try to find out if the recipient(s) would like a quilt and I need a hint as to lifestyle/house/interests.
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