Originally Posted by
Watson
I made a queen sized, hand quilted white work for a wedding gift. Took me over a year to do it.
The marriage lasted less than a year.
I felt like asking for it back.
Watson
I had the same experience... made a quilt for the wedding of a young man we knew who was getting married. About a month after the wedding, the 'wife' left him, taking all the gifts. Turns out she had only married him to arouse jealousy in her ex, who she then went back to. Our poor friend... I wanted the quilt back in the worst way!
Originally Posted by
tranum
I made our granddaughter a baby quilt to give at a baby shower. The new dad has horses so I made the quilt with 9 horse appliqués in the colors of the baby's room.... I watched as my gift bag was handed to her and she pulled the tissue paper away and peered into the bag, not even taking the quilt out.
Years ago I was going to the local dental school, to get my many broken teeth taken care of. My first "student dentist" was a sweet young lady who was just 4 months married. She got pregnant unexpectedly with another year of dental school still to complete. I made her a beautiful classic Winnie the Pooh quilt for the baby. When I gave it to her she only peeked in the bag. That really hurt! Who does that?!
Originally Posted by
berrynice
Anyhow, long story short, I came home one day and noticed that the quilt wasn't on the bed anymore and I asked him where it was. -- He heartlessly told me he didn't want to lay on the muddy ground when he changed the oil in his truck, so he used it and if I wanted it, I could dig it out of the trash heap behind the barn. When I went to get it, I was so heartbroken as apparently he had dumped the entire pan of old oil on it before he rolled the muddy quilt up in a ball and tossed it into the heap.
All of us are mad after reading this... Maybe you should have washed that quilt but left the oil stains on it, then placed it right back on the bed where it was originally. Let the jerk lie under oil stains. SO GLAD you are rid of him!
About "saving for later"... I made my son and DIL a wedding quilt out of beautiful Kaffe Fassett fabrics in blues and greens. Anyone would have loved that quilt. When we visited them at their house later, she had it folded up on a shelf in the guest room closet. Not even on a bed. It took me so long to figure out what that girl liked and didn't like, and I'm still learning. Got to love her tho, for giving me two beautiful grandchildren.