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Old 01-03-2015, 05:11 AM
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Edie
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I know for insurance purposes you should have a price on them, and I am wondering if that includes the quilts that we have made and they are on a bed, couch, back of a chair!!! I think I could say maybe $10,000, but in reality PRICELESS! It can't be replaced. Your favorite machine, the fabrics that you picked out and bought, or a special friend gave to you as a gift. I have gifts of Jelly Rolls that I am going to make a quilt out of and they were all given to me - Priceless. Sometimes replacement value means nothing. It is what is in your heart and what you did to get the fabric, how much the fabric means to you. I am not money oriented so I probably sound a little spaced out, but I love my fabric. Not for me, but for what I can do with it and that means more to me than any replacement value in the world. If I see a fabric I like, I buy it, if it is on sale, I buy it (if I like it). I do mostly samplers, so I don't need a whole lot of this fabric or that fabric, just a little piece will do just fine for me. I always buy sale fabric, never full price and then it is my challenge to see what I can do with it. That, too, makes it priceless. I am not rich by any means, and I buy fabric from artsy shops, barrels, thrift shops and I take it home, wash it and iron it and fold it and put it with the color it goes to and when I need a color, I go for the box and there is the fabric - "Oh, hey, I forgot I had that!" Another priceless!!!!! But if I don't like a fabric, I don't buy it. It is always my choice. I am making my cousin a couch quilt (I call it a coverlet - 52x80 - and he wants it in blue, beige and brown. I can do that - I have blue, beige and brown and it will be a double Pinwheel. I love sewing quilts. It gives me peace, contentment and it has brought me through the hardest time of my life, when my husband and mother died within four months. I thank my husband for appreciating what made me happy and I thank my mother for teaching me what makes me happy. Priceless. Edie
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