When I hear someone saying, this is an Heirloom Quilt and I am passing it on, I think to myself, "What a Waste!". In my Guild it's usually a Baltimore Album or some other intricate designed quilt that gets put on a shelf and drug out every once in a while to show. Sort of like the formal living rooms of our grandmothers that we were never allowed to play in. A true heirloom in my eyes is a quilt that is used, loved and worn. A remembrance of happy times of childhood or events. A quilt that is put up for safe keeping is eventually a garage sale item, sold cheap because it means nothing.