It's your home and your space. As long as you walk in and love it, then that's what counts. Enjoy your work!!!!

My mom has about 30 quilts hanging on racks in her bedroom and they look really nice...that is unless you ask my father. He constantly asks her when she's going to get rid of them and then the fighting begins...LOL

I think it's a matter of taste. It's your home.

There is no such thing as too many, it's all a matter of your opinion. What you like!

I agree with the well spoken words.

You can never have too many quilts. If you like them, enjoy looking at them and they make you happy, add as many as you can fit in your home!

Pam M

Sounds like you were describing my house. My friends who visit say it looks like a quilt retreat. LOL. I have them on beds, on walls, on racks, on wall display, in my china hutch, every where. Never too many.

Never can have too many

Here is my answer to too much of anything: IT IS MY HOUE; I LIVE IN IT; I WILL PUT OUT OR UP, ANYTHING THAT I WANT TO LOOK AT; APPRECIATE; REMEMBER, ETC. Do as you wish and remember the tale of the father, son and donkey. Going to market they were all walking; first person to go past told the child he should be riding - too young to walk that far. Second person along shamed the boy and said the father should be riding - he was older and couldn't walk as well. Third person came along and told them both they should be carrying the donkey. When they arrived in town; everyone laughed to see them carrying a donkey when they could have both ridden it in.
SEE WHAT I MEAN??? YOU CAN'T PLEASE EVERYONE, SO PLEASE YOURSELF.
Diane in Garnet Valley, PA

I guess all my relatives are afraid of me. LOL No one ever says anything about how many quilts I have out. The grands and great grands love to drag them around and snuggle with them.

The way I look at it, until I run out of space and therefore using them to line the driveway, I'll display as many as I want. I love looking at my quilts and the memories attached with each one of them. Everyone of them has a story to tell. Perhaps your relative is jealous?

Look anyone who doesn't like your decor right in the eye and say, "BITE ME."

I feel your disappointment and pain. I have a sister who believes she should grace everyone with her opinion, unsolicited or not, and that they should listen to her and they are dirt if they don't. Good thing she doesn't visit!

Diane - this is the bomb! Doesn't this describe people to a T? Let opinions fly and do what you want and need to do!!!

Its your home do it your way!!!!! never to many quilts, if someone has nothing nice to say, they shouldn't say anything!

Afraid? Never. They appreciate your quilts. They will remember Grandma's quilts even when they are old, and maybe be quilters themselves!

One can never have too many quilts displayed. I believe that quilts make a house a home.

I think her comment was rude! She doesn't live there, you do. Make yourself happy! BTW, I wouldn't make a quilt for this relative if I were you.

I guess it's whatever you like. My DH doesn't like them out of the bedroom so I keep mine in a glass front antique cabinet in the familyroom.

It is your house! If you like it that is the way it should be! Tell your relative to keep hers the way she likes it and you will do likewise. Personally, I would love to look at your quilts!

Gosh, your relative would have a fit if she came in to my houe as I even display quilts in the bathroom! LOL I live in central MO where a lot of the older women believe that a quilt is only to be used on beds. I just told them that my wallhangings are my "fine art" and that by hanging them on the wall, folding them over benches, etc. I can actually enjoy them. After all, how much time does one actually spend in their bedrooms awake enough to enjoy that beautiful appliqued quilt that is on their bed?

A quilt ladder. How neat and what a great idea. I've decided
'that in my old age it is time for me to stop putting in drawers
and in cupboards. What I want to enjoy is out where we can all
enjoy it. Especially me.

Can you have too many displayed?? I think not

And then there is my DH who displays all his dead animals on the walls--shoulder mounts, skulls, horns, etc. Thinking about hanging some of my quilts from the horns!LOL

Exactly! I have them all over - porch, living room, dining room, hanging, over couches, on a quilt rack, in bedrooms, I just love them - old ones and ones I've made. I did put away some of the valuable ones because our house is on the market and didn't want them to disappear.

Life is too short to worry about what other people think. Time for us to please ourselves.

We very seldom have visitors at our home aside from family. They know its my "thing" and if they think its weird they havent said so. I switch them around real often.I am at a place in my life where I live in surroundings that make ME comfy.Its my home,my space,and if people dont like it they know which door they came in.LOL!

PLUS - IT DOES THE QUILTS GOOD TO GET SOME AIR - NOT GOOD TO BE ALL BUNDLED UP IN A CLOSET ALL THE TIME EITHER!

Don't let a thoughtless (and tactless) remark discourage you from displaying your beautiful quilts where you can enjoy them on a daily basis. I love to visit my friends' homes because they are all so different from mine and yet a terrific reflection of who they are. Some are modern, some traditional, some cluttered, some tidy--but all wonderful and warm and welcoming. I'm sure your home is equally lovely and reflects the kind of person you are. Most people love to look at quilts. If your relative doesn't, that's her misfortune.

wonder what she collect's
I live in a MTH and we move around but I have quilts over chairs,couch,on the bed, everywhere I love showing them off

I personally think that after we spend as much time on something as we do on quilts, it is only natural that we want to enjoy them for a long time. We work hard to make them pretty, so why not see them?

Too many quilts? Does not compute! The more the merrier I say...

There is no such thing as too many quilts being displayed.

It is your house. do what pleases you.

I say don't invite them back! hehe I had friends like that and they will never get a quilt gift from me!

You can have too many quilts ??????

who cares what you're relative says...

IT'S YOUR HOUSE!!... have what you want...

your house - you pick what you want! :)

Its your house you should do want ever you want . Display what you want.

I'd add a few more quilts on display next time the relative visit. :-D :twisted:

I think someone is jealous.