Keeping Quilts for Yourself
As I look through my picture album of quilts Ive created throughout the years, I realize I have only one quilt for myself. Ive made quilts to give as gifts and sell to customers. I have the first quilt my daughter made a surprise gift for me.
However, Ive only one, a large pieced star on our bed, that I made. Actually it was a gift to my mother-in-law, who displayed it on her guest bed. When she moved to a nursing home and didnt have space for it, she asked if Id like it back.
This star quilt had been one of my favorites, so I was delighted when Mum gave it back to me. Then I realized it was the only quilt of mine that I owned!
I have quilts that were handed down in my family and quilt tops to finish that husbands grandmother pieced. But only one of my own.
Do you keep quilts for yourself? This usually is why we begin making quilts to have them for our beds or walls. I began quilting because my mom had orders for them during the Bicentennial years at her general store. The lady supplying her customers could not keep up, so Mother suggested I transform my sewing scraps into quilts.
Perhaps I should begin making some quilts to keep and to hand down through the generations.
What do you do with your quilts?
(If you have quilting questions or quilting information to share, e-mail me at: me.allen@juno.com )
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