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12-18-2010, 10:37 AM
#31
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I don't think it's sad. It's human nature. What a weird world we would live in if everything we did was appreciated.
This is coming from someone who has spent hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars on soldiers (and, who loves one soldier in particular).
There's also the possibility it was purged posthumously.
That said, I would have bought it. How much was it?
This is coming from someone who has spent hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars on soldiers (and, who loves one soldier in particular).
There's also the possibility it was purged posthumously.
That said, I would have bought it. How much was it?
12-18-2010, 10:38 AM
#32
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Location: Adirondacks
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Originally Posted by joan_quilts
That is sad, but in a way, I do understand why someone would donate/give/sell it.
I lost my mom 5 years ago. I made her a special quilt for her bed on the nursing home. She loved it. I know she treasured it dearly.
When she passed, I could not be around that quilt. It made me cry because I missed her so much. My dh, knowing how much that quilt meant to me and my mom, took it to use in his truck. He is an over the road truck driver.
So, I feel good that he wanted it and I am still sad when I wash and dry it for him. It reminds me of my mom, but not when she was well and it reminds me of she died with that quilt covering her.
I hope and pray somebody buys this quilt and can use it. It is sad to see a precious gift just there with nobody to love it.
I lost my mom 5 years ago. I made her a special quilt for her bed on the nursing home. She loved it. I know she treasured it dearly.
When she passed, I could not be around that quilt. It made me cry because I missed her so much. My dh, knowing how much that quilt meant to me and my mom, took it to use in his truck. He is an over the road truck driver.
So, I feel good that he wanted it and I am still sad when I wash and dry it for him. It reminds me of my mom, but not when she was well and it reminds me of she died with that quilt covering her.
I hope and pray somebody buys this quilt and can use it. It is sad to see a precious gift just there with nobody to love it.
12-18-2010, 01:40 PM
#34
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Location: Maine-ly Florida
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I agree with Patrice. We really don't know how it came to be there. One possibility is that the person making it had something happen to him or her. That would explain the basting threads being still in it.
It was hard when I found my mother's last knitting project in her house - she made hats for a cancer unit. She had only just started that hat and I had to unravel it and give the yarn away - to Goodwill. I couldn't stand to keep it.
lots2do
It was hard when I found my mother's last knitting project in her house - she made hats for a cancer unit. She had only just started that hat and I had to unravel it and give the yarn away - to Goodwill. I couldn't stand to keep it.
lots2do
12-18-2010, 02:47 PM
#35
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Location: South Dakota
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Originally Posted by PatriceJ
i ask everyone to please not assume anything about the reason the original recipient donated the quilt to the post thrift shop. i especially urge you to think before you judge.
we cannot know the whole story. the possibilities are endless.
nearly every one of those possibilities says nothing bad at all about the donor. they do, however, speak volumes about the emotional trauma and - quite possibly - lifelong pain the soldier and family may be facing and struggling against.
we should be thankful, instead, that the donor cared enough to offer somebody else the opportunity to own and love the quilt at an affordable price. let's not forget, either, that the proceeds from on-post thrift shops are used to benefit soldiers and families in a variety of ways.
the donor has, therefore, guaranteed that the intent to somehow honor and serve an injured soldier will be fulfilled.
we cannot know the whole story. the possibilities are endless.
nearly every one of those possibilities says nothing bad at all about the donor. they do, however, speak volumes about the emotional trauma and - quite possibly - lifelong pain the soldier and family may be facing and struggling against.
we should be thankful, instead, that the donor cared enough to offer somebody else the opportunity to own and love the quilt at an affordable price. let's not forget, either, that the proceeds from on-post thrift shops are used to benefit soldiers and families in a variety of ways.
the donor has, therefore, guaranteed that the intent to somehow honor and serve an injured soldier will be fulfilled.
12-18-2010, 06:35 PM
#38
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Bakersfield, CA
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Originally Posted by JAGSD
Originally Posted by PatriceJ
i ask everyone to please not assume anything about the reason the original recipient donated the quilt to the post thrift shop. i especially urge you to think before you judge.
we cannot know the whole story. the possibilities are endless.
nearly every one of those possibilities says nothing bad at all about the donor. they do, however, speak volumes about the emotional trauma and - quite possibly - lifelong pain the soldier and family may be facing and struggling against.
we should be thankful, instead, that the donor cared enough to offer somebody else the opportunity to own and love the quilt at an affordable price. let's not forget, either, that the proceeds from on-post thrift shops are used to benefit soldiers and families in a variety of ways.
the donor has, therefore, guaranteed that the intent to somehow honor and serve an injured soldier will be fulfilled.
we cannot know the whole story. the possibilities are endless.
nearly every one of those possibilities says nothing bad at all about the donor. they do, however, speak volumes about the emotional trauma and - quite possibly - lifelong pain the soldier and family may be facing and struggling against.
we should be thankful, instead, that the donor cared enough to offer somebody else the opportunity to own and love the quilt at an affordable price. let's not forget, either, that the proceeds from on-post thrift shops are used to benefit soldiers and families in a variety of ways.
the donor has, therefore, guaranteed that the intent to somehow honor and serve an injured soldier will be fulfilled.
12-18-2010, 06:45 PM
#39
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 194
I was thinking the same thing as 'lots2do.' If it still had threads hanging off from it, it was never given to anyone. QOV would not give anyone an unfinished quilt. Any quilts that they receive are finished, if not already finished when received, and a label sewn on.
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