I hadn't even thought of the love angle when I started making quilts (about 12 years ago), I was intrigued by the beauty of them, and perhaps the challenge. Then I realized that I couldn't get anything done w/o knowing to whom it would go. This must be a part of quilting for a lot of us. At DH's 75th one daughter had everyone who had a quilt of mine, bring it to cover the old IOOP walls. Two people, a grand neice and, later, her mom, flat out asked for a quilt (and told me what they wanted... one is my avatar) and a few weeks later a 9 year old who had been at the party, asked me if I would help her make a quilt for her grandmother's 90th birthday. I gae her buying instructions and then she and her mom stayed with us in our mountain cabin for 3 days while we made a lap rug, the girl doing almost all of the sewing. We couldn't make that party but the mom told us that when the package was unwrapped the GM just stared at it for the longest time, and then began to cry. She said no one had ever made something "just for her" before. The love a quilt can bring, for both the quilter and the recipient, is soooo powerful!
Last edited by Sierra; 12-01-2012 at 08:03 AM.