Thread: Wondering how many of us get too attached to our quilts-ha!

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.

I have made some quilts that I could not sell at all! One especially made to honor a very important person in my religion. I could not sell it at all! Other's are wall quilts for Christmas, Halloween, Family picture quilt that my husband paid to be made. So many!

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.

Same here!!! Hopefully I will be able to start parting with them when I need to downsize!

Dream on, I had to downsize and now I have bins with quilts in them and a closet pretty full of them.

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!

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...

Dina

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 love making quilts for others but when I am just making them because I like the pattern and fabric, then I get hooked. I think I know that others will not take care of the quilt and that does bother me. I know others say that when you give it away, it's gone. But when I see a quilt (that cost me $250 and a great deal of time making it) looking like a dishrag about a year later, it makes me ill. I knew a woman who spent 6 months appliquing a baby quilt for the first great grandson and when she was able to see the baby, the family dog was sleeping on it.

After I am gone, I will have no control over what happens to my quilts, but if I have become attached to them, I think it is okay to keep them. If I really need the money, then that will be a different matter.