Originally Posted by earthwalker
Well, I thought I'd wait a bit to post my reply, because I thought I would be standing alone with my opinion. Thankfully I'm not. All these quilts are absolutely charming in their own right. I can see no "ugliness", just lots of hard work and each of them a reflection of fabrics and expression of the times in the lives of the person who created them. The most important thing is they are meant to be and have been loved and used, that is what quilting is all about after all. I love scrappy, and one of the things that inspired my quilt journey is the history behind what I think is an amazing craft. For instance who could look at the quilts of Gees Bend and the stories behind those quilts and not be moved?
Okay! So, I didn't read the whole thread, and had to go back after what you said - - you are absolutely CORRECT! Every one of those quilts are keepers!
I forget where I read it, but one of the quilters said that she made a purple and brown quilt. The idea had been good at the time, she thought, but she hated that quilt.
She took it with a bunch of other quilts (if I remember the story correctly) and a little boy ran up to her and LOVED his new Peanut Butter and Jelly quilt ...!
I have seen it more times than not - - what I am not particularly thrilled with, lots of other people thought were GREAT!
And, I hope I never forget the time I went across the US to visit son's family, while they were waiting for a new baby.
I walked into the house and saw this REALLY NEAT quilt hanging on the wall in their bedroom. Of course, I HAD to walk up and look at it, it was just GORGEOUS! So bright and cheery ... I recognized the pattern and thought "Well! That was well-thought out" ...and, then looked at the quilting and thought ... well, now, that IS interesting.
I turned up a corner of the quilt, thinking ... I really have to find out where she got this quilt ...and realized, when I saw the back ... it was the quilt I had made! for them as a wedding gift:shock: ... I hadn't been particularly impressed with it when I finished it, but after four or five years ... it really was an impressive quilt (until I figured out I had made it - - and, then the thoughts went the other way! LOL) when we make quilts, we are too close to them. And, we are too hard on ourselves, sometimes ... oh, well ... at least we get really good at "trying harder" <wave>