Yes, I did all handwork, hand quilted it and it was the size of a bedspread for a queen sized bed. It is now at the dump. :(

Oh, my! That hurts me just hearing it! I'm so sorry :(

She sure was dumb!! A bottle of wine only lasts for a little while and only has its original value. A quilt lasts for years and gains value! Some people are just hard to understand.

I have made a queen sized quilt for my church to raffle last two years. This year when I brought the quilt up at a Women's group meeting, I was told that I hadn't followed proper procedure and gone through the proper members of the chair person, the treasurer, etc and that I couldn't go on just "willy-nilly". I followed the same procedure I had used in the previous year. I let it be known that my feelings were hurt and that I made the quilts for the church and the women of the church. I hung in there and was reassure by all members that they all love my quilts very much and all of them wanted one of them. Eventually said Chairperson called me and apologized but it was hard to forget. By the way, I had my pleasure when I sold her a raffle ticket. The other women were wonderful. They are now nudging for next years quilt.

Too bad people dont know how much time quilters put into their work. Quilting is a passion and for us we see the beauty in every quilt, but others dont.

I'm sure whoever won your quilt, loved it. I wish I won it. I rarely keep anything for myself.

was she drunk when she said it?

Yeah, thats why she wants the wine instead of the quilt. She can't see past that juicy bottle of wine. ha ha ha! Drunks do that you know..

Maybe she was a lush!

I bet so.....otherwise why would she have even thought of anything so stupid? I think we are realizing her problem now. ha ha ha! Poor lady. Now we can have pity on her since she has no idea what a quilt is for. Why was she even at the show?

The person who made that remark must not have been a quilter and not know how long it takes to make one. Because no quilter would ever say something so hurtful.

I sure wouldn't let it upset me. You know you had a beautiful quilt & wheather we want to admit it or not, there are just people out there with NO taste! Aren't you glad it isn't us?

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Yeah!

Did I miss something?? How did a beautiful creation end up in a dump???

What you missed was the people that got it didn't know any better and didn't take care of it. I don't know if it really is at the dump, but I am sure its no longer any good. It was all hand work and you can't just treat that like a blanket and wash and dry it over and over without bad results.

Thats what I meant. The dump line was a guess. :) Sorry!

Aren't you glad that person didn't win it?

Some people are thoughtless. But , sometimes when I'm at a frustrating moment in the quilt - I'd have a drink-if I drank.

Ahh, got it. I guess I took it literally. I feel for you. That would make me very unhappy :(
Here's a HUG for you :)

Shows what she knows. I would have said Hi my name is---- I made first prize. God bless.

Oh, that would have been so cool !!! :D

Ouch! Well I hope she got her wine and someone more deserving got your quilt.

However, I must say... I have had a foot in mouth moment over someone's quilt. Please don't throw anything at me :O

I was at a local quilt guild's (not mine) annual quilt show and my friend and I were discussing a particular quilt that had some issues (to say the least). The blocks were horribly stretched, borders uneven, quilting was kinda rough looking, and quilt edges were wavy. I said to my friend, "it is a good try for a beginner." The person who made it was standing behind me... she was a lifetime quilter who had suffered a stroke and was learning to quilt using her non-dominate hand. OOPS! The lady took it in stride and laughed a bit but I felt horrible.

Awww, you didn't mean anything by it. She sure had a good attitude. We've all done that at one time or another :)

Some people just don't appreciate good work.

When I first showed my quilts to my SIL she said to me: "please do me a favor and never give me a quilt as a present". Her boyfriend is the same, he even does not want to sit in our living room because there a quilt hangs on the wall and he doesn´t want to look at it. They definitively would choose the bottle of wine too.
But they have this kind of white-black-silver interior in their apartment where I could never feel at home.
So it´s ok for me, they will never get anything handmade from me! I know that my part of the family likes it, and so I keep my handmade things for my sister and parents.

I once made a quilt as a wedding gift for a good friend of mine who also sews and paints, so I thought she would like it, but I only received a very lukewarm "Thanks". :?

I guess it would depend on the bottle of wine. Have you seen what some of those things go for? Some vintages are collectable (make that double for me since I don't drink alcohol :) ). Maybe she needed to fill a hole in her collection.

I keep hoping to get a couple of missing state quarters...

the woman was stupid, there are lots about.

Do you know her do you? Do you know what's going on in her life? Do you know what kind of day she'd had? What kind of year? Are you really prepared to judge her on what one person briefly overheard and then passed on? To judge her on part of a tiny conversation? What if she'd had the day from hell, just lost her husband, cat, dog, kids, house, and job. What if sitting down for a quiet glass of wine was all she could think of at that point?

I've watched this topic quietly, and tried to steer it in the right direction, but now I'm getting fed up.

Some of you need to learn to think before you judge so harshly. You're too quick and too eager to pass negative judgements, and extremely harsh judgements on somebody you know NOTHING about. Would your lives stand up to such scrutiny? Is everything you've ever said nice or have you been guilty of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time?

I too am wondering if she was just kidding. I frequently joke around with my husband with things like that. For instance, I don't drink so I could conceivably see myself looking over at my husband and saying, "heh, I hope I win second prize."

I have two things to say about that, but someone else probably already said the same....
First, as long as a decent amount of money was raised for the cause, who cares what she thinks?
Second, Nobody forced her to buy a ticket!