ever forget where the quilt went??
11-09-2019, 03:55 AM
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Funny thing! I take pictures of my quilts and they are in an album. I was looking last night and I saw a quilt I made several years ago. I loved making it but where did it go? I don’t think it was one I donated. The hunt is on!
11-09-2019, 05:04 AM
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LOL DH and I forgot what happened to a love seat we had. I asked him what happened to the leather love seat we had, we bought it with the sofa. He said I remember it but have no idea where it is. We bought new furniture and kept the sofa but have no remembrance of what happen to the love seat. The kids said they didn't have it but remembered it. It's one of many of our I have no idea mysteries.
11-09-2019, 03:41 PM
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I just have been keeping a record of the finished quilts in a little spiral notebook....doesn't take too long to jot down a brief discription of the qiult....I usually also add the size (sometimes before and after it is washed and quilted), the type of batting used, the type of thread used to quilt it with, and where it went. I now have 52 quilts in my notebook which I started when I got my long arm. It is fun to look back....
11-10-2019, 03:20 AM
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I try to write down who I give a quilt to, also, but sometimes I forget. I do give quilts to the hospital and various charities/disasters as they occur. Those are usually the ones I forget to make a note of. But at least I got a picture!
11-10-2019, 03:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Iceblossom
Maybe go back and look at your posts to see if you mention it somewhere?
The ones I make for specific people I typically remember, not only that but the fabrics in it remind me when I use them again. The donation ones not so much. Sometimes though I will see a photo of a quilt and I can recognize it as my work or fabric but don't remember it at all!
The ones I make for specific people I typically remember, not only that but the fabrics in it remind me when I use them again. The donation ones not so much. Sometimes though I will see a photo of a quilt and I can recognize it as my work or fabric but don't remember it at all!
Ditto to Iceblossom. Those made specifically for an individual or an event, I recall. I created a picture list of unidentified quilts as I try to make a useful history of my "body of work". I hope that a memory will pop up with where the quilt went. So, MIM, don't feel you are the only one. I suspect we who make lots of quilts do forget some. It is kind of fun to stumble on an older photo and mumble to one's self in amazement, "I made that? Wow! Didn't know I was that good." From time to time, I mumble, "What was I thinking!"
11-10-2019, 04:18 AM
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Since the majority of mine are for children's charities, I never know where they really go. But I do have questions about a favorite of mine I made for myself many years ago from green and violet flowered material. I'm a February child so it was my birth month flower. The last time I saw it my daughter had it in her room, but she has claimed for years that she doesn't have it and that she hates the color purple. It just vanished in a puff of smoke!!
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