Are you offended if someone doesn't display your gift?
05-27-2011, 09:34 PM
#41
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I once made a cousin a broomstick full size afgan for a wedding gift. When the invitation for the wedding came it said there would be a money tree so as not to receive duplicate gifts. Well, I had worked many hours on that afgan and she was going to get it. Instead of putting it in a box or nice wrapping I put it in a clear plastic blanket bag with a zipper. I place my gift by the money tree for all to see. I received a Thank you card and I forgot about it until her mother was showing me pictures of their nursery, she had twin girls, and there was my afgan on her rocking chair. She would use it when up in the night rocking her babies.
05-27-2011, 09:40 PM
#42
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Location: Perry, Oklahoma
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Originally Posted by DogHouseMom
I was offended only once. I knitted two baby blankets for my ex-brother-in-laws wife. She opened it, my ex-husband said immediately "Sue made those", and she pulled them out, looked at them breifly, and said .... wait for it ....
"what? no money?"
Needless to say I never did like the bitc ... person.
"what? no money?"
Needless to say I never did like the bitc ... person.
05-28-2011, 12:38 AM
#43
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Location: Blue Ridge Mtns.
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Whether they display a quilt, use it as a blanket or lap quilt during the winter is entirely up to them, but a Thank You for the gift is mandatory. If they can't be bothered to do that, no future gifts from me.
05-28-2011, 02:59 AM
#46
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Originally Posted by MellieKQuilter
I have felt that disappointment where the recipient just doesnt "react" to the gift. Its disheartening. :( I gave a quilt to my parents, havent heard a word about it... I dont expect tons of kudos and adoration, but I guess I expected something.
05-28-2011, 03:11 AM
#49
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Location: South Dakota
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Originally Posted by Wonnie
Learned a lesson along the way and that's that everyone doesn't have my same tastes. When I make a quilt it's because
05-28-2011, 03:15 AM
#50
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Originally Posted by bjnicholson
Back in my jewerly beading days, I gave my sis a sweater that I had added a beaded trim. She called me a when she got it and said it was too big. No way I could take it in to make it smaller. Then she said she took it into the office to show everyone how beautiful (pat on the back here) it was. A lady who is ...bigger... than my sis offered to buy it and she wanted to know if it would be alright to let it go. I just started laughing and told her of course she could sell it. Once a gift is given, it's given. To love or hate or even...sell! Oh, yeah. I made her promise to tell me what she did with the money!!!
I don't make large projects for others...too much time and $$ invested.
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