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#12
regarding the project in which you've lost interest...
I had such a project. I put it down for over a year (maybe it was three). But it kept gnawing at me all that time. I'd made some errors that were a bear to deal with. (Search board for "Lonestar gone wrong" for the story and photos.) I practically hated the quilt-- it was so frustrating for me. But I hated more that it was unfinished. I wanted it done more than I wanted to stop working on it.
If that's you, just push your way through it. You'll be glad to have it completed and behind you.
If that's not you, and you've really lost heart in it and know you're not going to finish it, consider selling it here as is; perhaps someone else will fall in love with it an take it off your hands.
I had such a project. I put it down for over a year (maybe it was three). But it kept gnawing at me all that time. I'd made some errors that were a bear to deal with. (Search board for "Lonestar gone wrong" for the story and photos.) I practically hated the quilt-- it was so frustrating for me. But I hated more that it was unfinished. I wanted it done more than I wanted to stop working on it.
If that's you, just push your way through it. You'll be glad to have it completed and behind you.
If that's not you, and you've really lost heart in it and know you're not going to finish it, consider selling it here as is; perhaps someone else will fall in love with it an take it off your hands.
#13
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Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Ontario, Canada
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So sorry for your loss. You've already received lots of great suggestions as to what to do with this quilt.
I'll add another one ... it's also to give it to Hospice, but rather than as a fundraiser, or on one of the patient beds ... offer it to them to use as a Passage Quilt. Many Hospice's use quilts to cover the body on the gurney as they take it down the hall to the exit door, to the funeral home van.
It would be a perfect way to honour your MIL, and to comfort other families in their loss.
I hope to have my first Passage Quilt all put together today, and ready to send for quilting.
I'll add another one ... it's also to give it to Hospice, but rather than as a fundraiser, or on one of the patient beds ... offer it to them to use as a Passage Quilt. Many Hospice's use quilts to cover the body on the gurney as they take it down the hall to the exit door, to the funeral home van.
It would be a perfect way to honour your MIL, and to comfort other families in their loss.
I hope to have my first Passage Quilt all put together today, and ready to send for quilting.
#15
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Michigan
Posts: 11,276
If your father in law is still alive, I would give the quilt to him, otherwise donating it to hospice is a good idea.
Regarding the quilt blocks you don't care for. It's a sampler quilt for heaven's sake! Just pitch them (or put them in your scrap box). Make additional blocks of the ones you like, or look on line for blocks that interest you and just replace them!
Regarding the quilt blocks you don't care for. It's a sampler quilt for heaven's sake! Just pitch them (or put them in your scrap box). Make additional blocks of the ones you like, or look on line for blocks that interest you and just replace them!
#16
Originally Posted by crafty_linda_b
Sheila..can you donate it to Hospice in her name?
#17
Put it aside until the grief has lessened. Somebody in the family may not want it today but perhaps might want it a year from now. My dad offered me something that belonged to my grandmother's sister shortly after she died. I turned him down then - I'd give my eye teeth to have it today.
#18
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Dillsburg, PA
Posts: 314
Originally Posted by Glassquilt
Put it aside until the grief has lessened. Somebody in the family may not want it today but perhaps might want it a year from now. My dad offered me something that belonged to my grandmother's sister shortly after she died. I turned him down then - I'd give my eye teeth to have it today.
I just HOPE that when I am gone my kids KEEP the stuff and not sell it. Maybe I will specifiy that in my will...lol.
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