Nothing wrong with that! It is YOUR FABRIC and YOUR CREATIVE WORK. That makes it YOURS unless you decide to give it away.

My closet is full of quilts I couldn't part with. Perfectly understandable...and acceptable.

OMG, what would you think of me hahahahahhaha...I keep all my quilts. There must be 30 or so of them. Except for the ones I make specifically for my PIL's and those have been just 5. I have another one in the works for a little boy.

I agree whole heartedly make her another one

I have given away so many quilts, I don't feel at all guilty about keeping some.

I make a lot of quilts for other people, BUT I make a lot for myself also. I do the ol' one for you, and one for me, two for you and one, two for me! Hahaha, I don't always want to give them away. Sometimes I make the quilt just to make cause I like the material or want to try something new and end up giving it to someone. So don't feel guilty you are not alone.

It would be very nice to see a pic of your new quilt, if you can post one for us.

LOL on some of the above reasoning, I agree, it's yours till it goes out the door, then not too late to stop on the way for a gift card, Can unwrap when you get it back home!! or wait till your Birthday, still a gift just to you!! :)
You know you deserve somthing nice for making such a
pretty :)

I do that all the time.
I grow attached to certain quilts, and I figure if it makes me happy, I should enjoy it.
I made it.

I have done so much gifting that I never have kept for myself. I spent about ten years cross stitching. I do not have a single finished piece! I spent two years crocheting. Guess who is the only one without a a crocheted item?
If you love this one keep it! The reciever of the gift will never know!

This happens to me all the time. I have all the best intentions (which I see through to the end) of making up the quilt for someone. YOU BOND WITH A QUILT! Don't laugh! I bond with all of my quilts. Why, you ask? Because while you are working on it, things happen! Happy things, sad things, funny things, ridiculous things. And they become sewn into the quilt. I have found that when I make a quilt regardless of who it is for, I make a book. Each block has a story - what I was doing, how I felt, what the headlines were, what the weather was, what I was planning on doing that day. Sometimes I will put in the story of the block (a little research necessary there) because I know the recipient of the quilt will better understand the meaning of the quilt. I have done this for every quilt I make. I keep it in the computer until the quilt is done and then I print it all up, put it in a folder and put it with the quilt. It is a lot easier to part with the quilt that way, knowing that the recipient has a part of you in the quilt and will better be able to understand the ways and idiocyncrasies of a quilter, our whims, and fancies, why we changed the color in that block from this to that and the meaning to you of that particular little square. I made myself a memory quilt and it is my life from 1938 to 2008 (735 squares). Each little square in every block has a special meaning and I can look at it and remember every little detail of my life.

I love to quilt for other people. Sorry for my ramblings, but this article is special to me. Not only are you giving them the gift of a quilt (which, to me, is the epitome of gifts, because it is so truly from the heart), but you are teaching them love, value, caring, of what was a bunch of pieces of fabric into what is now an extremely valuable gift, priceless and given from the heart. Edie