My sister...feeling out of sorts???
#51
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Do you want to be able to say "I made her a quilt and I have done all I can to keep the family together", or do you want to be able to say "I made her a quilt I thought she would love"? Obviously she doesn't love/like flowers on fabric. Why would you use it? To spite her? It would be better to replace it with a solid than use a fabric you know she has already said she doesn't like. Where is the love in that? If the cost of the fabric is really the issue then sell the floral fabric and save up for the replacement fabric. People love quilts because of how the finished product looks, not because of the hours that was put into them - otherwise we would all cherish the child made products in the stores. What could be made more dearly than the labor of a child? It's a hard world.
#53
Originally Posted by TanyaLynn
Do you want to be able to say "I made her a quilt and I have done all I can to keep the family together", or do you want to be able to say "I made her a quilt I thought she would love"? Obviously she doesn't love/like flowers on fabric. Why would you use it? To spite her? It would be better to replace it with a solid than use a fabric you know she has already said she doesn't like. Where is the love in that? If the cost of the fabric is really the issue then sell the floral fabric and save up for the replacement fabric. People love quilts because of how the finished product looks, not because of the hours that was put into them - otherwise we would all cherish the child made products in the stores. What could be made more dearly than the labor of a child? It's a hard world.
#57
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Location: New Hampshire
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Originally Posted by j
Tell her to buy the material and then perhaps she will get a feel for what it costs, let alone working on it time. Then you will have only spent time on it and if she doesn't like it. Its her fault. == J
#59
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Bosque county, Texas
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Good luck on the quilt. I sincerely hope you enjoy making the quilt and I sincerely hope she likes it also. I understand you are making it with very good intentions. Perhaps she will receive it in the spirit that it is given. Please let us know how things turn out.
I have a relative that would not use a hand made quilt if it was the wrong style or color to match her decorating unless the weather turned very cold and the furnace malfunctioned. So of course I would not put my time into the wrong style and color because it would be useless.
I have a relative that would not use a hand made quilt if it was the wrong style or color to match her decorating unless the weather turned very cold and the furnace malfunctioned. So of course I would not put my time into the wrong style and color because it would be useless.
#60
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Originally Posted by EagarBeez
You think I should still make it??
Why work on something that is going to be received in such a manner it will hurt your feelings and ruin your pleasure in the giving. If she is, as DH says, critical of everything you do, you need to pull up your big girl panties and just say NO. No one can take advantage of you without your permission.
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