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I can't choose. I have 2 that my grandma made me years ago that I kept on my bed until they were falling apart. I have 3 that I made and gave away that I loved too. So please don't make me choose cause I just can't.
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I have 2 and you will see why. The first one was made for my grandaughter before she was born by a close friend/coworker. We all worked at a quilt shop and she made her a pink and white heart quilt with eyelet on the edges. My grandaughter is 14 now and still uses and treasures the quilt.
The second one is a quilt that I orchestrated to make for that same friend/coworker when she got diagnosed with cancer a year later. I gave each person who worked at the shop a muslin block and had them make her a special block. Then when everyones was done, I sashed and quilted it and took it to her. She loved that quilt so much and her husband said that she took it with her to chemo and everywhere. She battled for 3 years, but the cancer finally took her away from us. I saw her days before and she was wrapped in the quilt. The day of the funeral, her husband told me that she requested that the quilt go with her, wrapped tight around her so she could take our love and warmth with her. I have pics somewhere, will try to find them and post them in a few days or so. I miss Carol immensely. |
My favorite quilt is usually the one I'm working on at the time. But I guess over all it would be the scrappy one I made using my MIL blocks. It meant so much to me that she gave me the blocks before she died. She did live long enough to see her blocks quilted. It was the second quilt I made and I was very unsure of how or what to do.
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Originally Posted by DebraK
Originally Posted by Shibori
Well, it's a story that doesn't end well but here goes. I made my first show quilt in 1997. A large Mariner's Compass that I still love to this day...EXCEPT that when I see it I get very angry. That quilt took months to hand quilt and my mom loved it so I gave it to her after the show. We lived in TX at the time so it was a few years before I got to come home to visit to see how she hung it. It was out in the shed, hung up to cover a window, with rusty nails pounded through it. I've always held my tongue about this because I feel that once you give a quilt, it's not up to you how its' treated but this torqued me so much because she knew how hard I worked on it. I was not prepared for how she wanted to use it. I hate to say it, but I won't give her any more of my quilts.
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Two special quilts for me so far. My youngest son got married and I decided that I wanted to make a double wedding ring for him and his wife. I found the perfect kona off white with off white butterflies for the background and a beautiful batik in purples for the rings. I could not make my sewing machine do the curves correctly so I decided it had to be completely hand pieced and hand quilted. It was slightly smaller by a few inches than a king. They are no longer together, but he considers it the best quilt I have ever made. The second quilt was a kit I got from connecting threads, Penny Candy, with stars and pinwheels. I made it for my friend Cathy for her birthday and she got it a year later. She loves it and I was so glad to make it right now for her. I never got around to making a quilt for my BFF Anna thinking I had time, but suddenly she got sick and before I knew it she was gone. I wasn't going to let that happen to me again. Cathy appreciates it as she quilts too and refuses to let her dogs come anywhere close to it, LOL!!
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I have two special quilts. One I made for my DH on our 50th ann. called an american family. I posted it several days ago. the other was a joint venture. while going through an old trunk about 15 or so years ago, I ran onto a double wedding ring quilt top. My mother said she quilted it when she was about 16. It was hand pieced. I asked her to give it to me so I could finish it. Because it was badly sewn, I went over all the seams and then quilted it. I embroideried Mom and Dad's names and their wedding date on the center space and then my husband's and my name in one just below it. well that set off a problem with some of my sisters that I had it. so back it went to Mom and then to my oldest Sister. When she died recently, her daughter thought I should have it. so while I now have it, there is a bitter sweet memory with it. I will post it maybe tomorrow in the pictures. it's the only thing I can remember that Mom and I did together.
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We all have one quilt that stands out for some reason to us. Maybe it's because it was a pattern you weren't sure you could make, or it went to a special person, or it was to celebrate a landmark event in your life. Tell us about it.
Mine was a quilt that I made for my grandmother's 90th birthday. She loved roses and the color light aqua and I based it around a fabric that had both. I killed myself to finish it in time for the party, including sewing on the binding in one of my doctoral seminars. She was thrilled with it but then said "I am going to hang it up because it is so pretty and I don't want anything to happen to it". :shock: I said "you're 90 - if you wear it out, I'll make you a new one" and she laughed. But she used it and she enjoyed it. She died about 18 months later, having napped under it many days during that time. My aunt gave it back to me and when I want to feel close to her, I pull it out and sit under it. She told me later that I was the only person to ever make her a quilt - and she had 12 kids and 49 grandchildren including a bunch of quilters. That made me feel pretty good. My guild has a yearly challenge and in 2008 my daughter was battling cancer. I didn't have my heart in it to make a quilt. The challenge was a nine-patch. I decided to do a fabric scrapbook about my daughter. I brought the patches with me to the hospital during visits and chemo, doing applique, embroidery, etc. The quilt contains her silhouette, a scrap of her prom dress, college and high school letters, her favorite sport - tennis, her favorite music and band buttons, and an awareness ribbon for hodgkins lymphoma, etc.. She didn't realize I was making it about her and for her. She was touched and I recently entered it in a quilt contest - it won third place. The quilt is now on display in a shadow box in her bedroom (she is doing well). |
These are wonderful stories. Thanks so much for sharing them. Just like me, many of them are about the quilt we made for someone who isn't with us anymore. I hope that more will tell us about their special quilt
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My guild has a yearly challenge and in 2008 my daughter was battling cancer. I didn't have my heart in it to make a quilt. The challenge was a nine-patch. I decided to do a fabric scrapbook about my daughter. I brought the patches with me to the hospital during visits and chemo, doing applique, embroidery, etc. The quilt contains her silhouette, a scrap of her prom dress, college and high school letters, her favorite sport - tennis, her favorite music and band buttons, and an awareness ribbon for hodgkins lymphoma, etc.. She didn't realize I was making it about her and for her. She was touched and I recently entered it in a quilt contest - it won third place. The quilt is now on display in a shadow box in her bedroom (she is doing well).[/quote] What a beautiful quilt and great story. But the best part is that it has a happy ending! I am so glad your daughter is doing well. |
My DD wanted a red, white and blue quilt, so I made her Abe Lincolns Quilt, but I put a nine patch between the stars. The nine patches were from all different fabrics But the stars were a deep red batik against a deep blue batik. I took me forever as it was the first quilt I had made in quite a while and I had to get back in the swing. I finally finished it and I have to say, it was beautiful. The way the colors were made it almost glow. The day I gave it to her, she found out that the daughter of one of her closest friends from school had cancer of the brain. She was 7. My daughter asked me if she could donate that quilt for a fundraiser for them. Of course I said yes. It raised double what I would have charged for it and the family was so greatful. There was a little girl there who fell in love with that quilt. She came back every little bit to look at it. She bought one ticket and yes, she won it. She was about 10 and I thought she would wet her pants when they called her name! Sadly, the little girl with cancer left us last year, but her parents have pictures of her standing by that quilt. I am in the process of making DD another quilt, but she didn't want that pattern because she said it would be forever Jayden's quilt.
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