Old 08-29-2013, 07:18 AM
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GrannieAnnie
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Originally Posted by SlightlyOffQuilter View Post
I live by the rule that if you could not see it from the back of a galloping horse, it does not exist. I made a quilt for our family physician recently and she was so in love with it she gushed about how she was going to take it home and hang it right up on her wall, and I told her to give it back then, because I do not make quilts for hanging on walls, or keeping in closets, and that if she was not going to use it and abuse it, I was taking it back ! She has since promised that it is getting an exuberant amount of use !

Guess we're all different. If someone was so proud of a quilt I'd made that they wanted to hang it on a wall, I'd be flattered. It is being "used", it's being art instead of a blanket.
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