llweezie

Don't feel bad I gave two quilts this summer one to a neice for a bridal shower and one to a neighbor for a baby shower and have still not received a thank you note in the mail.... I have a 7 year old grandson who sent me a thank you not for his birthday gift for crying out loud..... What is wrong with people....!!!

eyes

I am not sure there is such a thing as yucky fabric. It just takes time and creativity to do something with it and I may be doing something else right now.

rj.neihart

When someone says "it looks professional" I say "thank you, it's made with love." If someone gives me material that I think is yucky, I find someone who can make good use of it. I'll never turn material away - there's always someone else who will like it.

junegerbracht

I am a member of a church craft group that often receives stuff that is not useful. We go through it - toss what is really garbage, use what we can and pass on what we can't. Truth is some people just don't want to throw junk out and feel better about giving it away. Nevertheless, we receive lots of good donated fabric, etc. so it is worth the effort.

coopah

I was informed by a mother of the groom that newlyweds "have 6 months" to mail out thank yous.

My son thanks me verbally for gifts. His wife sometimes thanks and sometimes not. Since I don't ever want to be the evil MIL, I continue to send her gifts, but he gets more. I make table runners and think she probably gives them away. Not many family traditions in her family. She bluntly told me she wouldn't take time to put candy canes in a cross stitched Advent calendar I made for my boys over 30 years ago. We were very poor then and it had lots of good memories. So now I keep things like that. A lesson learned!

homebody323

I recently had a dear friend who makes clothes bring me tubs and tubs of fabrics. None were quilt worthy. I took the wide stuff, 60" some of it fairly heavy (I'm not sure what she had that for), put it on the machine for the back. Then I cut 60" lengths of the other stuff. Loaded that thick poly batting I didn't know what I was going to do with it, layed one piece of the 45x60" stuff on top, and started basting the sides and meandering. When I finished that one, I just added another piece. Oh yes, I did a double line abou t 1/2" apart from the take up roller towards me at the mid point. I used that as a cutting point. Anyway I quilted till I ran out of backing. Cut them apart, trimmed and did a self mitered edge to make them look good and took them to the animal shelter. Those poor dogs sleep on the cement and my bones just ache thinking about it. Used up some of my ugly thread, had to actually go buy some more of that thick poly and after about a week delivered 37 of them. Boy dd I feel good.

nancylee

I made quilts for my nieces, ages 23 and 25. I never even got an acknowledgment that they arrived! I know the younger one loves her quilt, because I saw it in their living room, Nd she uses it all the time, but I won't make either of them anything again. They are both quite entitled and spoiled and don't appreciate the work and love that went into it. I gave my mother a quilt I made from a vintage quilt top, and was at her house when she put it on the couch and has the dog get up and lie down on its, I love dogs, but you want the quilt ruined, instead of your couch?? What the heck? I told her I was taking it back, so she put a different blanket down so I didn't steal it back!
My mother-in-law, on the other hand, practically cried when I gave her a quilt, and she couldn't thank me enough. I know,she treasures it, so,there are more gifts in her future!

vickig626

I gave a quilt as a wedding gift - no thank you. months later, I saw the husband and asked about the quilt. His response?
"The cat likes it".....I was crushed.

Gave another one to my stepson when he got remarried. They loved it !! Then as my brother-in-law's funeral (of all places), he asked me if I used cheap Walmart batting since it wasn't warm. Again -- crushed !!

No more wedding gifts except for my son if and when he gets married. He and my hubby seemed to be the only ones who can appreciate them.

eyes

When I got my panties in a bunch with never getting a 'thank you' or any telephone calls from our 3 step-grandchildren even thought I sent their gifts home with our daughter and son-in-law or put them in the mail I was informed that we as grandparents were out of line expecting a 'thank you' as it was our duty to give . Needless to say they never got another thing from us!

And needless to say our daughter gets very little from us to for always making excuses for this ungrateful family.

And the flip side of this is...I have been making felt tree ornaments for years for a class mate of our daughter's 3 little boys and always send them a few $ on their birthdays and at Christmas time and you would think I gave them a million dollars.

So who knows what makes some people including families tick.

DebbieJJ

My mom told me out-right that she had rather have a blanket any ole' day of the week, but my step-dad loves the quilt I gave him!