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    Old 09-06-2015, 04:47 AM
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    I find that I like the process ... but by the time I'm finishing up the binding I'm thinking "On to the next one".
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    Old 09-06-2015, 06:22 AM
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    I keep mine until they have been in the quilt show -- then they are up for grabs for any family member who will love them!
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    Old 09-06-2015, 07:32 AM
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    Originally Posted by AudreyB
    If I make a quilt FOR someone, I have no problems giving it to them. If I just make a quilt because I like the pattern or want to make a quilt, I have a very difficult time passing it on. Hence, I have a whole closet full to the brim of quilts.
    I feel the same way!

    And I feel the same way about quilt magazines. If I've bought them I hate to part with them. But if I pick them up from the free table at guild meetings I'm happy to read them and then pass them on!
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    Old 09-06-2015, 07:58 AM
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    Originally Posted by AudreyB
    If I make a quilt FOR someone, I have no problems giving it to them. If I just make a quilt because I like the pattern or want to make a quilt, I have a very difficult time passing it on. Hence, I have a whole closet full to the brim of quilts.
    This is the way I feel too! Glad I am not alone...

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    Old 09-06-2015, 08:27 AM
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    Originally Posted by ukdame
    I love each one when I finally finish. I kind if hate giving them to family but I know they will be well used. I plan to sell some at a local bazaar this fall but don't know if I will be able to part w/most of them. They are all special- will.someone love them like I do.
    Sometimes I do. I just made a baby quilt with 1930s fabrics and it took me some time to get it done. It came out very retro looking and I am having a hard time letting it go especially since the new mommy moved out of the area and we are not that close. She is a wonderful person and I know she would appreciate it. I will be dropping it off in about a week as I will be driving by where they live now. I am at a point in life that my older children are having children so it is tempting to keep some of those baby quilts on hand. So far I haven't given into that yet. I did two times make a similar baby quilt but the original quilts got to their intended owners.
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    Old 09-06-2015, 08:31 AM
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    Originally Posted by PaperPrincess
    OK. I'm weird. I like the process so much that when I'm done and I'm looking at the quilt it's almost like 'now what the heck am I going to do with this???'. I usually have them hanging around the house and when someone admires it, I can gift it knowing that the recipient likes it. Maybe that's why I only have 1 of my quilts...
    I like this and once I am done making quilts for everyone I might do this. I also find that giving the quilts away is a large part of why I like quilting over other crafts.
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    Old 09-06-2015, 08:39 AM
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    I don't keep my quilts for myself, so I am constantly giving them away - to charity or family. I do find it very difficult to part with them though. It helps me to keep them for a year or more before moving them on. I just like to look at them once in a while before they go. If I give them too soon, then the thought of how much work and cost went into them is too fresh.
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    Old 09-06-2015, 09:11 PM
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    So far there is only one I'll not part with for any reason and it's the one with wool batting on my bed right now. I wash it fairly often and will eventually wear it out, but I don't care! It's my blankie!!

    Over my 30+ years of quilting I've found that even though I sort of hate to part with ones I've made, I rarely think of them within a few weeks after passing them along. Remembering that helps.

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    Old 09-06-2015, 10:54 PM
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    Sometimes when I am making one, it begins to tell me where it is going. .have you had that happen? I will see a pattern I want to try, I will start and be working away on it, and it then just begins to tell me who it will belong to...I have had that happen so many times............and I do love to surprise someone who is not expecting it..........I got to do that last night, to a friend who is someone I met years ago, during a job assignment and she and I have just been friends since then......if I can find the photo, I will put it on here to show you............she was so surprised and so delighted about it..........
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    Old 09-06-2015, 11:44 PM
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    I'm in the long process of making each of our 6 kids a quilt, so far I'm on the middle child's quilt. These have been easy to let go of. Then I will be able to make the quilts I want to make, I'm sure those will be more difficult to let go of. But then again we have 9, & counting grandchildren. So who can say what I'll do with them. I do know they will be easier because these won't all be queen sized.
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