Everyone here does besutiful,awesome,WOW Quilts! :shock: :mrgreen: :thumbup: :XD: I am now making my very first quilt for my inlaw 52nd anniversary with lots of help from members who are Angels from above!! :thumbup: :thumbup: I am 45 and have never owned a Quilt or had one in my life. :-( If anyone has a old quilt, one they don't need or want I would love to buy one from you! I really want to know what it feels like to be wrapped up in Lovely warmth and softness!! It might give me more ideas of how to make quilts for my family and maybe someday myself. Just wondering! Thanks for "listening". :mrgreen: Ms. Shawn "pm me"

This probably should be in MEMBERS - BUY, SELL TRADE - CLASSIFIED.

Try thrift stores in your area or the good will stores. you might get lucky

I have seen old quilts in second hand stores. texasgranny is right keepa look out at thrift stores. You might find one at a good price.

Welcome to the board! I think after you make your first quilt, you should make your second for yourself! Then you will not only be able to wrap yourself in it, but everytime you do you can say to yourself: I MADE this! There are lots easy patterns on line, you can find some of them right here in the tutorial section.

Growing up with both of my grandmothers and a great grandmother, all of whom made quilts, I can't imagine never having one.
Please, get yourself one and start enjoying the good life!
Carol B

my first ever quilt came from an auction. It is an older one that was ufo, top only. My husband bid and got it. So not knowing anything about finishing a quilt, I go get some batting and fabric and i put it together. Its a 4 patch, using old pieces of fabrics for the top. This was about 15 years ago. I just started making quilts myself this past Novemeber, now I love doing it so much, I don't want to do anything else!!!! heheheh

I sleep every night with a quilt made by my dear, sainted, Aunt Mary. It is the softest quilt ever made! I am pretty sure that it has polyester batting in it and some of the topping material is a blend of cotton and ? - but OH SO SOFT. I think of her every night when I pull it up to me.

I found and gifted to my favorite LQS a beautiful (albet tattered) old quilt at a garage sale for $5. The new owner said that she's going to restore it.

Watch garage sales, thrift stores, estate sales and auctions. The old quilts that I have are ones my grandmother and my mother made and I wouldn't part with them even for Bill Gates money.

Maybe we should try and organize a throw size quilt swap with some of the others that have never received a quilt. That way we could all be wrapped in friendship!

I'm not sure about your agenda, but I can tell you that I never had a quilt wrapped around me until I made one. It is special to me becuase it is made from the scraps of quilts that I made for others.

I have never had a quilt but one I made. It was a mourning quilt. I use it, but just doesn't have warm snuggly feelings for me......

hugs to you {{{frogella}}}

Sorry!

Thank You! :mrgreen:

Thank you very much! :mrgreen:

Thank you! :mrgreen:

I don't really know what that means but sounds great to me!! pm me with more info. please! And thank you !! :mrgreen:

Thank you I never thought of it that way! :mrgreen:

I leave my bedroom window open in the winter, and the air turned down in the summer, just so I can cover up to my chin with my quilt.
I always leave a lot of turn-over on the top sheet so the quilt will stay clean longer. Don't want to get body oils on my quilt.

Thank you and I am sorry!! I guess I am just feeling sorry for my self and a little left out! :oops: ;-)

Thank you!

When I had to have an operation a few years ago I took my quilt with me. I felt like Linus and MY quilt was going to keep me warm, give me comfort, and keep my mind on getting well and going home. It was also the first quilt I had made (or rather finished) to keep. It also turned out as a great ice breaker with the nurses. So don't sell yourself short. A gifted quilt is great but one you make yourself is priceless.

Thank you soooo much for saying that and you are very right!! :mrgreen: :thumbup:

Best way to stop feeling sorry for yourself or feeling left out Ms. Shawn is to get busy. If you're making one for you inlaws - make one for yourself too. You don't need a sample. Just look at all of the tutorials on the internet. The Lord helps those who help themselves. Get busy girl :) Hugs!

You are SO right and Thank you for that!!! God Bless you!! :mrgreen: :thumbup: :D

Madqilter ....I guess I never thought of it that way either. You know how us mommas are, we always think of ourselves last!!
Ms. Shawn, I guess we need to get busy!

I think that if you made your own,you would be so much happier.You have to start somewhere. That is the joy of quilting. Then you will become addicted like the rest of us and have a ton of ufos!!Look at the you tube with the Missouri quilt tutorials.They have the best ideas.

I'm sorry no one every made a quilt for you, but I figured out some time ago that I would be happiest if I met my own needs first and that by doing so I would have more to give to others and others would do more for me. So make a quilt for yourself in your very favorite colors. Make it big enough to wrap around you twice, and every time you use it, remind yourself how much you love yourself.

I am privileged to have quilts from both deceased grandmothers and my mother as well. However, there is no joy like having a quilt that you made yourself.

You can work on more than one quilt at a time. Sometimes, I have three or four going at once. I only started this pleasant hobby at the end of 2002. I have made approximately 100 tops. Many of them are not quilted, but they are being marked off the list one by one. I have not kept count of the number of charity quilts that I have made for the sick, abused, children of soldiers, etc.

It is truly more blessed to give than receive.

It is also a great pleasure to say. "I made it myself."

I have been fortunate to have had quilts all my life but I made my first quilt just for me. I have given away many others but the first one is special to me.

Thank you, Shawn! :thumbup:

That was sweet of you, Thank you, Ms. Shawn :thumbup: :mrgreen:

Thank you so much you all are so sweet and me lots of inspiration!!! :mrgreen: :thumbup: :XD: Shawn

Welcome on the Board. Make one of yourself. I also never owned a quilt until my 41. And made it myself. :)
Maybe you can join a swap on this board. So will your first quilt become a very special one.

With all the ideas that come from this forum, after you make that first one, you will have a list you want to do. I've been quilting a long time, but I still learn so much on here. I'm 62 and I know I will never live long enough to make every quilt I'd like to. I'd have to live to be 162 to do that, even then I'd still see more I wanted to make. Have fun, don't rush through it...and welcome to quilting.

I'm a newbie quilter. Decided to make one as a wedding gift for my son. The blocks were 19" square made up of 2 squares, 2 rectangles and a co-ordinating colour strip in the center. Very easy to put together and very easy to quilt. It was far from perfect but I will learn as I go along. I used jewels tones in deep red, gold, green and a print that had every colour in it. I was very pleased with the way it turned out and so were the newly weds. As a result, I have the "bug" and can hardly wait to start another one.

Ms Shawn, Your are not to far from me. Do you ever come into Buckingham or Cumberland? If so PM me & I'll give you my number so you can call me sometime. I will help you with making a quilt and you can see the ones I've done as well. No charge to help you with this, I have nothing better to do then help someone willing to learn.

I am 47, and don't have a quilt yet, I will make one for me next year, after Christmas quilts are done for my family. so maybe after your done with your parents quilt, you could make one for you, like I am going to do, as buying is not a option for me. I would love to have one sooner, as I am cold all the time, and when I am cold I hurt more. But that just is not going to happen. God bless.

Hey seasaw2mch, Thats Great!!! Where are you? I have been to Buchingham once or twice, but don't know where Cumberland is. We live is Madison Heights, near Lynchburg Va