different people different taste
#62
They are all beautiful. I make lots of scrappy quilts. I try to give my quils to someone I think needs a quilt. I can make them faster than I can find someone for them. All my kids, Grands and Great Grands have several. I have 35 or more quilts waiting for homes. People I don't know have some of my quilts. So far everyone loves them except for my other Granddaughter. I only have two Granddaughters, one loves them this one doesn't, she has several but doesn't use them.
#63
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Posts: 284
Yes,when I feel moved to do something I don't see as my normal thing,someone benefits.I drag things home from the auctions all the time that I have no logical reason to bid on.And low and behold someone needs what I drug home.Could be a coffee pot,toaster,maybe a box of sheets.The best one was a lounge chair I let the auctioneer talk me into for$2.00.Well when I got home,my sis had left a message on my machine asking me to look for a loungechair for her hushband .He was dying of cancer and couldn't sleep in bed any longer.I just about fell over.I had it in the back of my car.Oh happy day!!!
#64
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Quebec, Canada
Posts: 1,861
Moving every 2 to 3 years for professional reason and living by myself. With time I got so tired of trying to find a place for everything that I owned or that I had kept "in case of...." and craft things *I love almost any crafts* and moving them around with my bones and muscles getting older and painful, I started to read books like (and I translate as I read them in french) "simplify your life - simple life - stepping lightly - your life or your money - etc
it helped me with the decision to keep only what I used regularly. lessons learned. loll
and I am not getting any younger!
I started to get rid of things that I had not used in the last 5 years or so... and I have not missed anything yet
I don't have kids to leave them with the "cleaning up" after I'm gone.
Now you know why I am not a collector of "too much" of anything (exceptions apply of course loll)
rich and free in other ways loll
#68
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Oklahoma
Posts: 125
Girl, I have made so many quilts "just because". I love the fabric, the process and the ability to create something. I keep a stack in my living room and when we have visitors, they get to take one home if they really fall in love with it, or if they just ask. I keep my "keepers" in a separate place. I LOVE being able to give and share them. It makes it worth while.
#69
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Quebec, Canada
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Girl, I have made so many quilts "just because". I love the fabric, the process and the ability to create something. I keep a stack in my living room and when we have visitors, they get to take one home if they really fall in love with it, or if they just ask. I keep my "keepers" in a separate place. I LOVE being able to give and share them. It makes it worth while.
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