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08-12-2011, 07:15 AM

#101

Dottie Bug

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Originally Posted by thelondonzoo

Beautiful quilt, Dottie Bug!!

:thumbup: thanks lady siad it came from a cabin in the tehachapi hills just east of us. she didnt know who done it its not signed. Dottie Bug

08-12-2011, 07:16 AM

#102

Dottie Bug

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Originally Posted by sunrise450

Dottie Bug... Beautiful quilt and what a great find!

thank you ,sunrise

08-12-2011, 10:27 AM

#103

Beginner10

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Join Date: Nov 2010

Location: Near Joliet, Illinois

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Originally Posted by Dottie Bug

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Originally Posted by Dottie Bug

I have adopted 2 a good will for $5.,,,Yard sale for $2.,,,,Dottie Bug

this is the $2. yard sale find, its hand quilted,&binding is done by hand. Dottie Bug

WOW!!!!! And only for $2. No matter how many yard sales and resale stores I have gone too...I don't find any inexpensive quilts. The quilts I have found in a resale shop...they wanted $75.00 :thumbdown:
I know it is worth it but I couldn't afford it. It was beautiful!
I will have to check out the classifieds...that would be nice heading..."Adopt a quilt".

08-12-2011, 11:16 AM

#104

ufoqueen

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Join Date: Aug 2010

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Good for you for speaking up. The man was probably so upset about the situation that he didn't realize how much love went into the quilts. I have the first quilt my mother made--started around 1927 and finished in 1964. I often take it out and look at it and remember her telling me that she had started it when she was away from home (Weetsatche TX) working as a domestic. She wasn't able to go back to it until she had finished raising five kids and living a very interesting and sometimes difficult life. It's a Grandmother's Flower Garden.

08-12-2011, 12:54 PM

#105

sueisallaboutquilts

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Wonderful idea!!! :thumbup:

08-12-2011, 01:23 PM

#106

GrannieAnnie

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Join Date: Aug 2010

Location: S. W. Indiana

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Originally Posted by scrappylouisa

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Originally Posted by LindaM49

This kind of reminds me of a story that could have ended up very sad.

This story reminds me of when my Grandma and I rescued an elderly ladies sewing goodies from a fire. She had died and her son took all her prized goodies and piled them outside and set them on fire. I told Grandma what he had done and she went over and put out the fire and rescued the goodies. I promised my Grandma that day that her prized sewing goodies would never be treated that way.

Several years later when Grandma died.....I rescued her prized sewing goodies from the dump. My Uncle called me and asked if I wanted her sewing crap. If so, I had 1 hour to get it or it was going to the dump. I was very upset with his attitude!!!!!! I went and loaded my car with all of her goodies. There was 3 boxes left and I told him I would come back and get them. He said that when I left the rest would go in the pickup for the dump. I tied those boxes on the top of my trunk and took them home.

In those boxes was a beautiful Umbrella Girl quilt top, several quilt tops cut and ready to sew. I have shared Grandma's sewing goodies with my family and I still have several cut squares of blocks waiting to be used.

I'm married to your uncle!