Use or preserve baby quilt
#32
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Dubuque Iowa
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I love them used but want the recipient to use it as they want to enjoy it. My granddaughter got attached to the one made for her mother when she was a baby. She wouldn't give it up and dragged it around so much we patched it until we couldn't anymore. It was like a rag when she got done with it , but we got such enjoyment out of her attachment to it. Can't remember how old she was when she finally parted with it, but the last of it was used to bury her favorite dog when it died.
#33
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Posts: 71
I kept the quilt my daughter's great grandmother made and have saved it for her. I made her a couple of quilts she could drag around. I am soon to be a grandmother so my daughter will get her great grandmother's quilt back and I will make new drag around quilts for the grandchild.
#34
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Horse Country, FL
Posts: 7,341
I agree! It is a compliment to me when they're used. Made two for a friend's grandchildren. They take it outdoors and use it to sit on for 'tea parties.' What could be better than that?
#35
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Illinois
Posts: 9,018
Ah, so many "things" packed away and never enjoyed. The China, the silver, quilts, ....all waiting for......when? That rainy day?
My friends' MIL passed when in her 80's. Dee has her complete set, never used glass dishes still in the oiginal box from the 1930's. use the quilts.
Sandy
My friends' MIL passed when in her 80's. Dee has her complete set, never used glass dishes still in the oiginal box from the 1930's. use the quilts.
Sandy
#37
When I made an alphabet quilt for a friend of our son's, I didn't know them very well, but knew she was a grade school teacher, they had a lovely newly remodeled home and this was their first child. I didn't want them to stick it in a closet if they had a "planned nursery" decor, so I made this label. She started to read it out loud, then choked up and couldn't finish. Later we got a note that said they used it every day, outside and inside. I was grateful I let them know it was okay to "use".
#38
I like them to be well used. I gave a quilt to my sister for her Yorkie when he was just a pup. He used the quilt everyday and knew it was his. Whenever she would wash it and he would see her come in the room to bring it back to him, he would get so excited and start wagging his tail and start jumping around because he missed it so much and was so glad to have it back in his bed. He loved it so much. He recently passed away, and my sister said she will be keeping his quilt as a keep sake in his honor, after about 15 years of everyday use. She recently adopted another Yorkie, named Bitty, and I am making a quilt to give to her in about three weeks when I go visit. I'm sure it will be loved and used as well.
#39
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Saskatchewan
Posts: 51
I've told my daughters-in-law to use the quilts, I can make more.
Best feeling in the world was when one 4 year old, sitting beside me on the sofa with his well worn (abboo-his name for his quilt) tells me he's going to save abboo for his kids. Nothing better than that.
Best feeling in the world was when one 4 year old, sitting beside me on the sofa with his well worn (abboo-his name for his quilt) tells me he's going to save abboo for his kids. Nothing better than that.
I have made a number of baby quilts for babies born in my family, and there are two I made for babies that I was paid to make. The grandmother told me that her grandson loves his quilt and drags it everywhere - I am glad I machine quilted it! I just made her another one for a soon to be granddaughter, and I feel good knowing these quilts are really loved. My nephew's wife has packed away the baby quilts I made for their children. When the children are grown, they'll probably say to Mom, what do I need this for, and even maybe - who is this lady? And the quilts will end up in a thrift shop, or as a rag.
Which quilts do you make that make you feel good - the preserved ones, or the wore to the nubs ones??
Which quilts do you make that make you feel good - the preserved ones, or the wore to the nubs ones??
#40
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Texas
Posts: 2,369
As a child, I slept under a full bed size quilt made by my grandmother (a Sunbonnet Sue but I always thought of it as a little Dutch girl, for some reason). It eventually wore out and my mother discarded it (I assume; her mother made many quilts and so she probably thought nothing about throwing a tattered and shabby quilt away). I'd give anything now, that I'm also a quiltmaker, if I had that quilt, or even a remnant of it. There are no pictures, so all I have is my memories, which are very sharp; I still remember the fabric as well as the pattern.
So I understand both camps: those who want to save quilts, and those who say use them. I'm glad we used that quilt --it was a big part of my childhood -- but I wish, too, that I still had it, especially since it's the only quilt I remember that my grandmother made (though she made many, none survive).
So I understand both camps: those who want to save quilts, and those who say use them. I'm glad we used that quilt --it was a big part of my childhood -- but I wish, too, that I still had it, especially since it's the only quilt I remember that my grandmother made (though she made many, none survive).
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