I made a quilt for my sons' great grand- mother. When his grand mother (which is my ex-mother-in-law, we have always been on good terms) got him for the weekend she fell in love with it. She kept saying she was going to get her mother something else and keep the quilt. His GGM got it and she called me to thank me for it.

I did whole cloth quilt entered into our show and judge said was not acceptable..but machine quilters in quild said I was robbed, should of won and was better than they could machine quilt....that was better than a ribbon.

Your comment about your quilt when selling your home reminded me of my Realtor days, prior to retiring. I had a home for sale and the lady had some of the most exquisite art quilts in almost every room. You just couldn't take your eyes off of them. I had to finally ask her to take most of them down as customers did more looking at her art quilts than at her home, and it was very nice. The art quilts came down, the home sold and the art quilts went back up in the new place I sold her. I certainly envied her talent.

I gave my son one of the first quilts I had made as his room mate had a few that his grandmother had made and he loved them.

My son, not having the best of health, used his a lot. Dragged it around with him when he wasn't well, washed it frequently and, a couple of years ago when I saw it, it was really threadbare and had some patches just worn right off - batting showing through. I told him I would make another one for him and asked what he would like. He said something with stars.

I finally settled on a Mariners' Compass and sent it to him.
He was astounded with it. I told him to toss the old one as it is a rag. He said "never". We visited him last fall to find the new one hanging on the livingroom wall and the old one still on his bed. He says everyone who visits loves the Mariners' Compass as he does but he still loves the old one which has seen him when he was the very sickest he has ever been.
Mary Alice in B.C.

I got a new embroidery set and started doing test sews on them(I was a newbie). My husband saw them and asked me to make a quilt. I had never made any thing but a baby quilt. I fell so in love with the designs( My Secret Garden by Petra) that I bought the other two sets. I had no idea how much material I needed and don't even think the strips around the design was all cotton. I would sew some together and go put it on the bed and make another couple of rows. I was very proud of my quilt. When my aunt was quilting it on her long arm she would say" I like this block the most" then get futher down would say the same thing. When she finished she said it was the prettiest quilt she had ever seen. I try to believe there was no bias there. She did go and buy the designs so guess there was some truth in it. I had her just do squares so as not to take away from the block.

That is GORGEOUS!!! I love it :D

Now that is beatiful I love hereing things as such

A dear friend and hubby had been stationed in Germany in the 50's. She was not a quilter, but started a patch work to pass the time. Then had 5 children and quilt got stashed but now 50 years later in a retirement village, she is losing her eye sight. Her hubby asked me if I would bring to home with me and have some one finish it while she could still enjoy it. All it needed was a border and triming up and quilted. So, I did it! Made pillow cases with the border fabric I found and my quilter quickly put it on her machine and we finished it before Christmas last year. She did not know it was even out of the house, as our sweet hubbys sneaked it out at Thanksgiving. So, on Christmas eve, with all the family she opened this quilt. I was so happy to do this for them. She still has some sight and it is on the bed every day.

The best complement I got was for a quilt I made for my Aunt using her husbands flanel shirts. He passed a way so suddenly she wasn't able to hug him one last time. She said that when she wraps up in the quilt it's like wrapping up with him. I made 7 quilts for the family using his shirts. KatFish

I love it when I see one of my quilts in use and well loved. Some are faded from use and washing but they are part of the inventory. THAT's the best compliment for me.

I had a very special friend who had cancer. I made her a quilt in Jan. 2010. She was all smiles when I gave it to her. She said everyone at church was always giving her something to wrap in. she said now she has her own. Well she past away last month and tis is what her 17 yr old daughter had to say on facebook to me. "Hey, Momma adored ther blanket you made her.. I have sleep with it ever since.. I hope you don't mind that I continue to sleep with it.. If you mind I understand but if not I would love to." This tore my heart out and made me feel like a million bucks at once.

roger that, as my dh (former marine fighter pilot) would say. everyone in our family understands & appreciates what all our sailors, soldiers & marines do for our country. we sleep under the blanket of freedom that they provide.

I head up the Prayer Quilt Ministry at our church in Atlanta. I am blessed to have a full album of pictures ofoven 60 quilts given to critically ill people along with their most beautiful and sometimes heart-wrenching thank you notes you would ever want to read. People are so grateful to have something tangible representing many prayers being said for them. There's no greater joy or compliment than knowing you have given something so meaningful.

Yes, I cried. Thank you for sharing.

My biggest compliment was from DGS I had made him a baby quilt that whenever DS tried to wash it he stood right there at the washer and dryer to get it back again. He is now thirteen and a few quilts later no one is allowed to touch them.

sculpyfan - your quilt is beautiful. My sister has an embroidery machine and often wondered what to do with her samples...this is a great idea, even if all her designs aren't of the same "type" it would make a great scrappy quilt. thanks for showing it to us.

I have only received complements from the board for the march doll quilt. that was the first and only quilt I have made so far. Penny

I make a twin size quilt for all of my nieces & nephews for graduation. When my oldest nephew moved into the dorm at college, his mother told me that the first thing he did was to make his bed with his quilt. Best compliment I could get from an 18 year old boy!

I had an older lady friend who won the purple Best of Show ribbon at the county fair for her crocheted bedsize afghan. She didn't want flowers at her funeral (she always said to give them to her while she was alive) and her kids draped that afghan across the casket at the viewing. I know she was smiling down from heaven.

My biggest compliment came from my six year old nephew. I had been cutting and pressing quilt patches at his home while I watched him during the day. I had made a quilt for his mom that he always wrapped himself in. He asked me to make him a "big" quilt like moms with race cars.

So, we searched the web, found the focus fabric and 5 months later, I gave him his quilt during a family party. He took it, laid it out on the floor, made sure all wrinkles were out of it, stood there quietly looking it over, then dove onto it yelling "I love it!". Grabbed a corner and rolled himself up in it and said "Aunti, I'm never coming out of here." So cute and I had a tear in my eye.

The quilt goes from his bed to the LR while he watches TV wrapped in it, and he does the same after dinner, then to bed with him. No one is allowed to use it. I know this quilt will be with him for a lifetime because it is not juvenile looking. I hope he saves it for when he has kids.

I finished the top for his 8 YO brother and now just need to quilt it. He picked his own fabric too. Then the 10 YO wants a Boston Bruin quilt...a real challenge because no fabric exists!

Diane

Use a couple of T-shirts. If I see any in my travels here around Boston I will let you know.

How do I see the picture of your quilt?

How do I see a picture of your quilt?

sculpyfan's quilt is posted on (as of this writing) the bottom of page three of this thread...she posted is on March 30

This was a backstabbing, slap in the face compliment ---- I made a quilt for my niece --- years and years ago when she was a little girl ---- I was a new quilter and the quilt was ok, but I knew even back then that there were a lot of flaws in it. Anyway, my niece's step-mother removed the label I had attached and put her name on it and took credit for having made it. (she couldn't sew a stitch) My brother confronted her about it, then gave the quilt back to me to keep for his daughter. I gave it back to my niece (with a new label) after my brother divorced that witch.

WOW ... that took alot of nerve on her (ex-step-mother's) part to do that ... what made her think she could get away with it???

Brush and Thimble,

Thank you so very much for your offer to help! That is just wonderful to find someone who is so quick to lend a hand. I'm in Lowell. Are you close by?

I was going to use t-shirts, but I found a company on Ebay that had a set of embroidered Bruins patches, so I got them (12 -$50) and will use those for his quilt. I have my Kona cotton fabrics in black and white already, so I just have to find the right golden yellow. I thought I would make stars with the patches in the center and alternate them with solid stars in the blocks on the quilt with sashing.

May I brag? The 10 year old is on two teams, and is the #1 Goalie in his league, the 8 year old played his first hockey game in September and scored the only points in the game, 10 Goals! and the little guy at 6, always beats his brothers when they play street hockey. So, I think my little men are going to be a hat trick of hockey stars!

Diane

bottle blonde - it just goes to show that even what some of us consider our lower quality work is better than the highest quality work of others.. Good for your brother for giving the quilt back to you to keep for a while...

cbuchanan, Do you have a website which shows all of the prayer quilts that have been made? I would enjoy seeing them?
Eiltcoq.

I had the same situation here at work. Several years ago they started a Staff Art Show. The person heading it up made it clear it was "art" and not "craft". Didn't bother me at all, it was her thing. Last year I was working on a quilt for my daughter, and the woman asked if I would like to be in the show, because that quilt was art. Well, so many others expressed interest in entering quilts into the show, that we broke off to our own quilt show. Funny thing was that at the ART show, there was a framed, fabric, embroidered and embellished piece I would call a quilt-but it had been accepted as framed art!

I posted about it here: http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-40780-1.htm

Best compliment I ever got - I made a quilt for an office colleague that was having a baby. Six years later I was at their new house for a dinner party and they were showing me around. That quilt was still on their son's bed, and much the worse for wear. I could tell it had been used and loved. All I could ever ask.

wow that is really bad. I am sorry she did that to you. Penny

The best compliments I get are from the people on this message board. Thank you to all of you. You are wonderful!!

I made a quilt that was going to be mine. But during the piecing it just felt like it should be my daughter's. She lives in NYC and I mailed the quilt for her birthday. She called and left a message about how much she loved it. She wanted me to know how awesome it was and that when her friends came over they were all ohhing and ahhing and asking if they could buy one. The message was so long she ran out of time. The next day I received an email. A picture of her wrapped in the quilt with a sign that said Thanks. The caption said "I truly love my quilt and you".
The picture is on my desk and the message is still on my answering machine.

Diane,
Maybe you could take a photo of the 10 yr, old with some of his Boston Bruin momentos and use that as a center of the quilt. Then use their colors for other blocks, or just use his picture and their colors, he may not like them forever. You know kids change their minds about sports teams, almost as often as they change birthdays. But then he may be like my son, he has had a special and favorite team, since he was in kinder, and he is 34 now, so some never change. Sounds like you made a big hit with the youngest, glad you did his first!! Must have really made him feel important and good not to have to be the last one to get a quilt. The 10 yr. old is old enough to understand and be able to wait a while.

Iquilt_gma,
Where in central Tx. do you live? My dad was born and raised at Cross Plains, near Brownwood, Tx. I live in far W. Tx. between Midland and El Paso.

Gerbie,

I agree so whole heartedly that they just might change their minds in the long run, but I think I'm safe with the Bruin's quilt. He does have a few pix of himself with Bruin's players, lives in Bruins shirts and wants all his clothes to be black and gold, so he is a fanatic. While the six and eight year old got theme quilts (race cars and baseball), I tried to make sure they weren't juvenille so that they would use them as teens too.

Diane

My SIL loves the quilt I made for their (her and my brother)housewarming gift. She said she will think of me everytime she uses it. She also called it beautiful! It is only the second quilt I've made so far. 8-) I didn't quilt it, had to send it out to be quilted. Quilter did a great job on it.

I made a quilt for a friends grandson with cancer he was 3 to take to hospital in New York when he passed away they all told of how he loved the quilt I made him . I embroideried his favorite things on the quilt it is still one of their most treasured keepsakes

What an awesome thing for the 19 year old to say! Yes, he definitely should get one of you special quilts with a lot of love going into every stitch. Sounds like your sister in law is jealous of your quilting ability.