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Old 04-20-2008, 11:17 AM
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JoanneS
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I have a different 'take' on this. I have given most of my more than 100 quilts as wedding and baby gifts. For years, I realized that many were put away in drawers, the way our mothers and grandmothers saved things that were 'too nice' to use every day - and we inherited them unused. I wish that I had included a note describing how to use the hanging sleeve that I put on them!

Now, I machine quilt, because of arthritis. I include the poem 'It's okay if you sit on your quilt, It's okay if you spit on your quilt..." with the baby quilts, and I write "it's machine wash- and dryable." I machine quilt wedding quilts, too, and write a note saying the quilt is machine wash- and dryable. I also write that I've included a hanging sleeve, because I've noticed some people don't know it's there, and they've hung my quilts by nailing them to the wall!
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