SuzzyQ

I find that I like the process ... but by the time I'm finishing up the binding I'm thinking "On to the next one".

Nammie to 7

I keep mine until they have been in the quilt show -- then they are up for grabs for any family member who will love them!

VaQuiltgal

I feel the same way!

And I feel the same way about quilt magazines. If I've bought them I hate to part with them. But if I pick them up from the free table at guild meetings I'm happy to read them and then pass them on!

Dina

This is the way I feel too! Glad I am not alone...

Dina

Annaquilts

Sometimes I do. I just made a baby quilt with 1930s fabrics and it took me some time to get it done. It came out very retro looking and I am having a hard time letting it go especially since the new mommy moved out of the area and we are not that close. She is a wonderful person and I know she would appreciate it. I will be dropping it off in about a week as I will be driving by where they live now. I am at a point in life that my older children are having children so it is tempting to keep some of those baby quilts on hand. So far I haven't given into that yet. I did two times make a similar baby quilt but the original quilts got to their intended owners.

Annaquilts

I like this and once I am done making quilts for everyone I might do this. I also find that giving the quilts away is a large part of why I like quilting over other crafts.

Daylesewblessed

I don't keep my quilts for myself, so I am constantly giving them away - to charity or family. I do find it very difficult to part with them though. It helps me to keep them for a year or more before moving them on. I just like to look at them once in a while before they go. If I give them too soon, then the thought of how much work and cost went into them is too fresh.

Jan in VA

So far there is only one I'll not part with for any reason and it's the one with wool batting on my bed right now. I wash it fairly often and will eventually wear it out, but I don't care! It's my blankie!!

Over my 30+ years of quilting I've found that even though I sort of hate to part with ones I've made, I rarely think of them within a few weeks after passing them along. Remembering that helps.

Jan in VA

4dogs

Sometimes when I am making one, it begins to tell me where it is going. .have you had that happen? I will see a pattern I want to try, I will start and be working away on it, and it then just begins to tell me who it will belong to...I have had that happen so many times............and I do love to surprise someone who is not expecting it..........I got to do that last night, to a friend who is someone I met years ago, during a job assignment and she and I have just been friends since then......if I can find the photo, I will put it on here to show you............she was so surprised and so delighted about it..........

oldtisme

I'm in the long process of making each of our 6 kids a quilt, so far I'm on the middle child's quilt. These have been easy to let go of. Then I will be able to make the quilts I want to make, I'm sure those will be more difficult to let go of. But then again we have 9, & counting grandchildren. So who can say what I'll do with them. I do know they will be easier because these won't all be queen sized.