I have a book where I put in a picture, tell about the quilt, whom to, when, how long it took to make it, news - local and national, etc. Then I also write a story about the quilt and give that to the recipients of my quilts. Each quilt I make is generally a sampler and I make it to match the person, more or less a story about them.
I like provenance with a quilt. The very first big quilt I ever made was my memory quilt....35 blocks...all the same - Antique Tile (Quilter's Cache). It ended up 142 pages typed, put into a note book with the design, colors, pictures, not only of the quilt, but of my family, the dogs, I even had one for 9-11. That was about the hardest. I took pictures from the computer printed them onto fabric and included that into the squares of the block.
The whole experience took me over a year to complete, but I will always have my quilt and my story and the colors of the squares and why they are that color and even in the block "My Mom", I put in a block/square that she had made and I look at it now and will always remember that Mom made part of that block. She died last year. Special memory and it is all written down for me to read again and for my grandkids to know my whole life-------if they want to.
Yes, I think it iis very important to have provenance with your quilts and pictures and a story of each one you give to someone else.
I don't know the person who won the cancer quilt that I made two years in a row for the Komen Breast Cancer Three Day Walk. It was raffled off and both made a lot of money for breast cancer research. And I wrote a story for each one of those quilts. I know the stories were appreciated and enjoyed, but I don't know who they are.
I know one quilt was won by a daughter whose mother was going through breast cancer treatment. I was especially happy about that one.
I keep copies of the stories, so I have them also.
That's my story. Edie