I got this from a poster on Sindy Rodenmeyer's yahoo group and thought it was fitting for all my quilting friends. I know everyone in this group needs it!
QUILTER'S WILL
Being of sound mind and body (a statement that does not bear close scrutiny) I,
____________, do hereby record my last fabric will and testament. Knowing that
____________, (husband, sister, daughter), has no appreciation, or for that
matter knowledge of my extensive fabric collection, which, by the way is
deposited in various places throughout my house for safe keeping. Knowing also
that ____________ has also notified the goodwill store should I precede him to
that great quilt shop in the sky, to pick up and dispose of the aforementioned
collection. Therefore I do WILL this collection and all other collections
related to it, to my dear fellow fabric preservationists of the ____________
(guild, sewing group, charity, etc,). It is my wish that they, upon hearing of
my death and obtaining clear proof that I did not manage (although goodness
knows I tried) to take it with me, will come to my home, before the goodwill
store searches out my collection. That they should rescue said collection and
stack it in my quilting studio, along with my sewing machines, frames, old
buttons, lace, patterns, quilts, dolls and works in progress. And after they has
done that, they should purchase refreshments for all my friends, not yet
departed, which friends are also their friends, and every last one shall be in
that room and they shall hold a wake and say lots of lovely and kind things
about me until they run out and then they shall divide amongst themselves my
wonderful collection. Be forewarned! I shall be hovering over that very spot
until this is done. The ____________ shall then leave this spot and close the
door, leaving the car, house, stocks, bonds and other worldly nonsense to those
who don't understand or know any better.
This is my wish on the matter.
Signed:
Dated: